Iguana Death Cult

Share "Oh No" Single + Video

UK Live Dates This Month inc. London's Moth Club

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

Ahead of the release of their forthcoming LP, ***Echo Palace*** (**due 12th May via Innovative Leisure**) and UK live dates this month, Dutch rock band **Iguana Death Cult** return with a brand new single entitled "**Oh No.**" Previously, the band shared two stellar singles, "**Pushermen**" and "**Sensory Overload**," and this new track continues the hype in anticipation of the record's drop in May.

Wrote the band of the track: "Inspired by Dutch writer Jan Cremer, I decided to write a song about how incredibly amazing I am. This sort of self-mythification seemed funny to me since I spend most of my days wallowing in doubt and worry. In the end it became a metaphor for how we polish up our lives to near perfection on our social media accounts, while mental health problems are becoming more norm rather than an exception."

**Iguana Death Cult - Oh No**
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfqcaLCqPs4

To accompany the new single, the band has also shared a music video, on which they wrote:

"One night, I played the new record for our good friend Max. When 'Oh No' came on and I heard myself sing the first line, I knew it; We have to get this guy in a knight costume. Max is a 6 foot 5 berserker but also one of the sweetest guys I know. We had so much fun making this video even though it was freezing and we had to hide from the rain every ten minutes. The banter you can have with this guy is unprecedented. One of the sharpest tongues in the game. Everything was filmed in Rotterdam again. Can't represent this beautiful city enough! Because this song has a bit of an old school Iguana feel to it, Hache wanted to use a lot of video distortion like he did back in the day when he made the videos for our first record."

In celebration of their forthcoming album, Iguana Death Cult made an appearance at this year's SXSW (Austin, TX), where they played a total of nine showcases. Following the festival, Paste Magazine noted that the band was one of the "20 Best Acts" they saw there: "I knew I had to see Iguana Death Cult as soon as I heard the band’s name. And they didn’t disappoint. From the word 'go,' the whole crowd was dancing and pushing to their garage and psych-rock extravaganza."

Iguana Death Cult come to the UK for dates in Bristol, London and Brighton this month - full dates are below...

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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"'Pushermen' sees the band leaning into their penchant for careening garage rock, building on layers of tight and nervy guitar lines, shouted hooks, and raucous gang vocals. The resulting track recalls both the jagged post punk of Parquet Courts and the ironic sleaze of Viagra Boys, especially given its heavy dose of tongue-in-cheek lyrics."
- Under the Radar

"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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