Children of The Pope Reveal New Single ‘The Seventh Seal’
Children of The Pope Reveal New Single ‘The Seventh Seal’ Released 27th September 2024
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Announce October 2024 European Tour Dates
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South London Psych-Rockers’ Debut Album Moonface Supreme Released 25th October 2024 via Panache
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South London psych rock band Children of The Pope are pleased to reveal their new single ‘The Seventh Seal’, set for release on 27th September 2024.
The track follows on from lead single ‘Kid’ and follow-up release ‘I Go Downtown’ which were released earlier this summer via all good digital service providers.
“When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them,” say the Children of The Pope on the new single. “We wanted to discard the unimportant. Songs about life and the living, and songs about death and the dead. Songs about God and the heavenly, songs about hell and the unholy. Sounds of youthful wonder and the melancholy of time. Love and hate and the opposites of the great untold, in extreme, melted together in a boundless pot of sweet surrealist molasses; the all, through the unmodified eye.”
Recently announcing that they have signed to Paris-based independent label Panache, the band will release their debut album Moonface Supreme on 25th October 2024 and have today revealed the artwork and tracklist for the record (below).
Recording the album was an against-the-clock, under-pressure process for the band that turned out to be very fruitful. “We recorded 12 tracks in 5 days in the dead of winter 2022,” they explain of the process. “Snow and ice and trying to explore the depths of our minds in a dimly lit room, trying to put surrealism to tape. Everything was recorded on 2 inch reel to reel in live takes (apart from a few overdubs also recorded onto tape). We did not turn a single computer on until the mixing process.”
Children of The Pope will also be playing a run of European headline dates throughout October 2024, with tickets on sale now (see below for listings).
In the grimiest parts of South London, amongst the shady pubs and ballrooms, COTP was formed sometime in late 2018 by guitarist Guilherme Fells and front man Juno Valentine, who had travelled 5000 miles solo from Brazil to London at the tender age of 18 with the express intention of starting a band. After a short series of adjustments to the line up, the band was resurrected in a gathering of old friends following the recruitment of scene veterans Matilda Harding (Poison Ivy’s lost apprentice) on guitar, keys, and vocals, and Jasper Eade on bass.
Quickly gathering a reputation for their hell-bent, electrifying performances thanks to sold out shows alongside the likes of Black Lips, Fat White Family, Insecure Men, and a UK tour with The Honkies, COTP foreground their love for dirty guitars, manic shouting, and surrealist melodies citing Os Mutantes, Link Wray, and Screamin’ Jay Hawkins as key influences.
The gang have been beautifully portrayed by South London cinematographer Lou Smith on many occasions both in live performances and music videos, honourably depicted in Dave Thomson’s book Woo! Strange Happenings at the Windmill and other Tangential Rants, and gifted with a headline show celebrating the release.
Their first run of independent singles drew early attention from Totally Wired, Clunk Magazine, Hard of Hearing Mag, Lost and Found Magazine, and more
Moonface Supreme is released 25th October 2024 via Panache
UK Live Dates:
05TH OCT - SONUS ART FEST,GUIMARÃES,PORTUGAL
16TH OCT - L’ALIMENTATION GÈNÉRALE, PARIS, FRANCE
17TH OCT - TY ANNA, RENNES, FRANCE
18TH OCT - LUNE FROIDE, NANTES, FRANCE
19TH OCT - RIFF MAGNETIQUE, SAINT MALO, FRANCE
Moonface Supreme album tracklist:
01. God’s Favourite Son
02. She Drank Holy Water From The Source
03. I Go Downtown
04. In My Dying Day
05. These Trying Times
06. In Times of Disgrace
07. Kid
08. Remember Love
09. Saigon Weiners Juice
10. She’s Gone
11. The Seventh Seal
12. We are all alone in this world
Children of the Pope online:
http://instagram.com/thechildrenofthepope
https://www.youtube.com/@childrenofthepope5365
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100071278441039
Manifesto!
“We are not polite, we are Honest.”
The thing we realise, is that we enjoy forbidden,
exclusive leisure.
Clothes
Everyone is clothed.
Conformity
Requires no brave
Validation
Within everyone’s reach
The holy grail of stimulants, lay within
The forbidden
The surreal
The absurd
The ungodly
We live in the jungle.
