THE UMLAUTS share single ‘Mad Blue Love’ taken from upcoming release “Slags”
THE UMLAUTS
Mad Blue Love
New track taken from upcoming release “Slags”
Released 13th October 2023 on PRAH Recordings
Check it out here https://youtu.be/yk30DfsSPgI
+ UK Tour Dates +
Gloriously fearless tunes that refuse to play by the rules - NME
Trans-Europe finesse…the band’s future is bright - The Quietus
UK Tour Dates
Wed 18 Oct - Brighton, Hope and Ruin
Thu 19 Oct - London, Corsica Studios
Fri 20 Oct - Bristol, Dareshack
Tue 24 Oct - Manchester, The White Hotel
Wed 25 Oct - Leeds, Belgrave Music Hall
Thu 26 Oct - Newcastle, Zerox
Fri 27 Oct - Edinburgh, Summerhall, Microsteria
Sat 28 Oct - Glasgow, Platform, Easterhouse, Lost Map x PRAH Hallowe’en All-Dayer
There are few things in life quite as mesmerising or outrageously euphoric as the nine-strong Umlauts army effervescing in full force. Rebelling against labels, transcending borders of land and time - packed with twin vocalists equally competent in their skewering south-London drawl as they are in German, Italian or French - as in touch with the nostalgias of First-Generation post-punk or 80s pop as they are with the techniques of contemporary pop or big beat dance - the Umlauts are paragons of trans-europe excess, dripping with inarguable edge; ranging wildly from chaotic cool to bombastically exquisite order; invested with unhinging, socio-political bite, dancing in a rave of their own.
Compiling the best of the Umlauts first two EPs - Ü (2021) and Another Fact (2022) - and appended with a clutch of new material - Slags offers the most comprehensive versioning of this Umlauts experience as yet extant on record; a salacious digest of wild experiments present and past.
And, alongside the ‘Slags’ , the three new tunes included here include ‘Dance & Go’, ‘Prédateur’ and ‘Mad Blue Love’ which is out today. A rant against relationships built on the sandy grounds of false expectations. Here’s the band on the track:
Mad Blue Love is a song about a failed quest for meaningful engagement with people. It addresses the occasional loss of ones character in order to become part of a narrative in which one lives in a symbiotic state with another person. This song speaks of a falling out of love before ever having been in love - the realisation that attraction often comes from an expectation towards somebody rather than a sincere emotion.
“It feels like the end of a chapter for us”, offer the Umlauts as a parting word, “returning to our work from the last 3 years, becoming slugs, starting again.” If it achieves nothing else, Slags stands pregnant with rich anticipation for whatever wanderings are yet to come from this most unique of bands. For sure, It’s already been a riveting ride.
