Cambridge Indiepop Trio MAMMOTH PENGUINS Announce New Album 'Here' Released 3rd May 2024 via Fika Recordings
Cambridge Indiepop Trio MAMMOTH PENGUINS Announce New Album Here
Released 3rd May 2024 via Fika Recordings
Preorder - https://fikarecordings.bandcamp.com/album/here
Stream Lead Single ‘Species’ Released 13th February 2024
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Leicester Indiepop Alldayer + Wales Goes Pop Appearances + May 2024 UK Tour Dates Announced
Cambridge indie pop trio Mammoth Penguins are delighted to announce their return with new album Here set for release on 3rd May 2024 via Fika Recordings.
To celebrate the news, the band are sharing lead single ‘Species’ which is released on 13th February 2024 via all good digital service providers—a jagged, explosive firework of a song from vocalist Emma Kupa about finding a place in the world, that’s rapidly becoming a live favourite with fans.
Mammoth Penguins are a 3 piece indie pop powerhouse, showcasing the songwriting and vocal talents of Emma Kupa (Standard Fare, The Hayman Kupa Band) backed up by the noisiest rhythm section in indie pop, Mark Boxall (bass, keys, vocals) and Tom Barden (drums, percussion, vocals).
Reminiscent of the pop melodies of The Beths, the indie dissonance of Land of Talk, and the guitar forward slacker rock of Weezer, Mammoth Penguins marry heart-ache indie pop with spiky guitars and Kupa’s frank, confessional songwriting.
Following the release of 2019’s big, bold, and confident album There’s No Fight We Can’t Both Win, plus the initial shock of the global pandemic cancelling a trip to SXSW in 2020, the band returned to the studio in the summer of 2021 to start laying down material.
Recorded, edited, and mixed at Sickroom Studios in Norfolk by Owen Turner, the new album was produced by drummer Tom Barden, with string arrangements, cello and violin on Here and Success by Mary Erskine, and mastered by Joe Caithness.
Here leans into the band’s raw pop-punk power-trio sound more than ever, with a deep growl of layered guitars and bursts of percussion and harmony. The songs and artwork explore themes of finding a home for yourself and familiarity with people and places. Although they return to a classic three-piece sound, Mammoth Penguins weren’t restricted by that palette, adding finishing touches of percussion, extra guitars and backing vocals in short bursts in a garden shed, and also bringing in gorgeous strings to sweeten the title track.
The new record’s sonic palette builds on their first album, Hide and Seek, which was released with the much-loved and sorely missed Fortuna POP! in 2015. The follow-up LP John Doe in 2017 was an ambitious concept album, exploring the feelings of loss and anger at a man who fakes his own death only to return years later, expanding well beyond the 3-piece rock‘n’roll template, with washes of strings, synths and samples.
Their third album, There’s No Fight We Can’t Both Win, was released in April 2019 via Fika Recordings, exploring classic themes of love, loss and conflict (mostly) given a hopeful and optimistic spin that opposition is neither inevitable nor hopeless.
The band have previously seen support from BBC 6music, Radio X, idobi Radio, Brooklyn Vegan, Louder Than War, London in Stereo, Drowned in Sound, Exclaim!, God Is In The TV, and a whole host of blogs and specialist radio shows for their raw and incisive brand of lo-fi pop.
The ‘Penguins have already been hard at work smashing some high-profile support slots in the lead up to the album release, including Allo Darlin’s joyous reunion at Islington Assembly Hall (Oct 2023) and Muncie Girls last ever London show (Dec 2023). They play the Leicester Indiepop all-dayer and Wales Goes Pop in March, before heading out on tour in support of the new album in May 2024, with tickets on sale now.
New album Here is released 3rd May 2024 via Fika Recordings
Mammoth Penguins live:
March 2 - Leicester - Indiepop Alldayer
March 29 - 31 - Wales Goes Pop
May 23 - Cambridge - The Blue Moon
May 24 - Rainham - The Oast
May 25 - Coventry - Just Dropped In Records
May 30 - London - The Grace
May 31 - Oxford - Florence Park Community Centre
June 1 - Sheffield - Delicious Clam
Here album tracklist:
SPECIES
I Know The Signs
Flyers
Blue Plaque
Everything That I Write
Here
Nothing And Everything
Help Yourself
Old Friends
Lost Friends
Success
A Plea For Kindness
Mammoth Penguins are:
Vocals and guitars - Emma Kupa
Bass, keys and vocals - Mark Boxall
Drums, percussion and vocals - Tom Barden
Mammoth Penguins online:
https://www.facebook.com/MammothPenguins
https://twitter.com/MammothPenguins
https://www.instagram.com/mammothpenguins
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRH4C-wfYdNwqzLXVprtysQ
https://mammothpenguins.bandcamp.com
Fika Recordings online:
https://fikarecordings.bandcamp.com
https://facebook.com/fikarecordings
https://x.com/fikarecordings
https://instagram.com/fikarecordings.com
https://www.threads.net/@fikarecordings
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