Iguana Death Cult share "Pushermen" single + UK live dates .. New album due 12th May on Innovative Leisure

Iguana Death Cult

Share "Pushermen" Single + Video

New album, Echo Palace
due 12th May via Innovative Leisure

UK Live Dates in April plus SXSW

Today, European rock band Iguana Death Cult return with a brand new track entitled "Pushermen". This new track is the second single off their forthcoming LP, Echo Palace (due 12th May via Innovative Leisure), which was introduced last month with a track entitled, "Sensory Overload."

Speaking on their newest release, the band wrote:

"This is one of those songs that just sort of happened while fooling around. Talking about it now already feels kind of surreal but we were literally trapped inside my home because of the curfew that was installed due to covid. Guitar in hand, we were reviewing the state of the world and the growing division and distrust we saw not only in the media, but amongst the people we know. Someone joked that we should quit the band and go into the vaccine business and so, we had our chorus. A chorus that ends on a more serious note that we don't want to be victims of our time. I tried to make the lyrics ambiguous enough that you don't really know which side the narrator is on. In the end we're just all people living different lives."

Iguana Death Cult - Pushermen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDT5OWX9W7Q

On the track's video, they continued:

"'Pushermen.' It kind of sounds like an action movie doesn’t it? Sadly we came a couple of million short, so Hache came with the idea to do a casting video for a fictional film called: 'Pushermen.' The scenes we did were loosely based on the movie 'Superfly.' If you know, you know."

Iguana Death Cult will make an appearance at this year's SXSW (find more info and view the full line-up here.) They will then come over to the UK for dates in Bristol, London and Brighton - full dates are below...

March 10 - 19th - SXSW, Austin, TX, US

April 28th - Astral Festival, Bristol, UK (tickets)
April 29th - Moth Club, London, UK (tickets)
April 30th - Hope & Ruin, Brighton, UK (tickets)

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LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Iguana Death Cult - "Pushermen"
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LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Iguana Death Cult - "Sensory Overload"
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"Channeling Madness, New York No Wave, and The English Beat, this high-energy tune is manic, disjointed, and highly catchy. It perfectly captures the feeling of ADHD, leaping and jumping from rapid-fire call-and-response chants, sax solos, and a hypnotic staccato bassline to anchor the madness."
- Post-Punk

"'Sensory Overload' is a blast of those spiky rhythms that we’ve come to expect from them, with wired and crazed saxophone blasts from legendary Dutch saxophonist Benjamin Herman that add another layer to their new wave sound."
- Louder Than War

Echo Palace sees Iguana Death Cult taking their trademark melodic garage-rock style and expanded it out to make it vibier and looser, with each member contributing ideas to develop the sound palette in full.

The sounds they started to make tapped into the band’s acerbic bite established on their first two LPs, 2017’s The First Stirrings of Hideous Insect Life and 2019’s Nude Casino—albums that sometimes felt like Parquet Courts colliding with Super Furry Animals. Their explosive performances of these records turned them into a cult live act among psych fans, who have thrashed to the band everywhere from Amsterdam to Austin. But working on this new album, huddled together as the world split apart, everything began to flutter like Remain in Light. 
 
Watching the pandemic paranoia and conspiracy theories steeping across their country, Reek wrote lyrics reflecting the scene in front of him: “Purple, veiny soccer mommies,” he sings in a deep, foreboding voice on the song “Echo Palace,” “Sharpening their guillotines.” It’s a cut so infectious that it betrays the density of its lyrics, which were adapted from a poem Reek wrote about the repercussions of “shutting yourself off from everyone outside of your own ideology.”
 
While each song on the record wrestles with these confusing times, Reek is keen not to point fingers. “These songs were written in such a polarizing time – we lost friends to conspiracy theories and ideologies. There are so many conflicting views and opinions. But I also don’t want to sound like I have all the answers,” he explains. “We should continue to talk to each other.”

Echo Palace sees the band push their psych roots further than ever before. With a wide-spanning interest in disco, dance music, New York No Wave and artists such as ESG, Talking Heads, Medium Medium, plus Squid, Pottery and Parquet Courts, the record is a melting pot of energy, groove, and playful experimentation, with only one rule – the audience isn’t going to be able to stand still.
 

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Preorder:
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Echo Palace - TRACKLISTING

01. Paper Straws
02. Echo Palace
03. Pusherman
04. Sunny Side Up
05. Sensory Overload
06. Conference to Conference
07. I Just Want a House
08. Oh No
09. Rope a Dope
10. Heaven in Disorder
11. Radio Brainwave


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