If you type new music into Google, you’ll probably get exactly what you’re looking for. But I’m half way through a smoke-and-brew-ponder, and I’m mulling over just exactly what deserves to be labelled with this term.
To anyone with an eye on the latest uk releases, it won’t have gone unnoticed that many record companies now seem to crap themselves if a band tries to do anything that sounds notably different to their last successful single – instead favouring the production of ‘new’ material to follow some sort of recipe, resulting in each new release sounding remarkably like the last one (I won’t start naming and shaming – I’ll be here all day).
Luckily for Foilface, we only release the tunes we like, when and how we want by doing it ourselves – like so many other successful bands do nowadays – so we’re not beholden to fat dickheads who would only ever pay any attention to their artists’ lyrics if they contained phrases like “commercial viability” or “loyalty purchasing”. We like to think that this is reflected in our genuinely new music – ie. the tracks can actually be distinguished from one another when you’re listening from a distance.
Our new EP, Jean-Claude Naive, is a great example – feel free to disagree, of course. All opinions are very welcome here.
