"You and I, we're ANIMALS" - Slow Readers Club's New Single

Slow Readers Club find shelter in the arms of others as they release their latest, lovelorn single…
 
Animals

Slow Readers Club’s UK & Ireland Tour begins this weekend, heading on to SOLD OUT dates in Nottingham, Bristol, London, Manchester and Glasgow
 
The hugely successful, darkly euphoric DIY four-piece announced the completion of their seventh studio album, Out Of A Dream, last month
 
The Slow Readers Club – Animals
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From the album, Out Of A Dream – Released 14/3/25
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Fevered, euphoric live shows are fed by intense, relatable music and Manchester’s shadow-lurking indie romantics, Slow Readers Club precede the start of their latest UK and Ireland Tour with the release of powerful new single, Animals. Taking to the stage in Belfast this Friday (22 November 2024) and working through a run of eight, largely SOLD-OUT dates including an inevitably rapturous Manchester homecoming at the O2 Ritz, fans can expect the first airings of new songs from their upcoming, seventh studio album, Out Of A Dream.
 
Set for release on Fri 14 March 2025, the band set high expectations for their newest collection of songs by revealing first single, Technofear, last month. Eyes open to the troubles and trials influencing every footstep taken through the modern world, those warnings on the smoke bomb effects of social media on the truth now give way to intense matters of the heart. Serotonin-sapping obsession and impulse in the whirlwind of romance meets the settling impact of long-term human connection as Animals bobs and weaves through heavily riffed, dramatic peaks and knee-hugging, introspective plains of observed emotion.
 
Singer, Aaron Starkie, says: “‘Animals’ is us doing full on euphoric guitar pop, full of energy and drama. It’s a celebration of intense, all-consuming primal love. Infatuation as a magic spell. It’s about a longing for togetherness and sanctuary, as an escape from the bleak reality of the outside world.

“When we were writing it felt like a big nostalgic stadium ballad, leaning into that with lines like “just like an old-time crooner, I sing a song to win your heart” and “come join me for communion, come join me dancing in the dark," it’ll be a natural addition to the more febrile sections of our live set.”

Cultivating a supernatural, mutually appreciative bond with their fans since Slow Readers Club’s ‘breakthrough’ album, 2015’s Cavalcade, propelled them onto bigger national and international stages, the band’s sense of street-smart, soul-mining drama has drawn comparisons to peers Killers, Depeche Mode, Radiohead and Arcade Fire. Nowhere else has that sense of collective commitment and release evident than during the band’s celebratory gigs, scenes destined to be matched, if not bettered on Slow Readers Club’s forthcoming UK & Ireland dates, confirmed as follows:

Fri 22 Nov 2024 - Belfast, Limelight 2

Sat 23 Nov 2024 - Dublin, Academy

Thu 28 Nov 2024 - Nottingham, Rescue Rooms – SOLD OUT

Fri 29 Nov 2024 - Bristol, Thekla – SOLD OUT

Sat 30 Nov 2024 - London, Village Underground – SOLD OUT

Thu 5 Dec 2024 - Manchester, O2 Ritz – SOLD OUT

Fri 6 Dec 2024 - Glasgow, Stereo – SOLD OUT

Sat 7 Dec 2024 - Leeds, Project House

Any remaining tickets can be found via links on the band’s website at https://theslowreadersclub.co.uk

Out Of A Dream, described by the band as “a collection of abstract visions that question reality, celebrate love and long for connection” arrives as follow up to 2023’s Knowledge Freedom Power, which gave the band their fourth Top 40 Official UK Album Chart position following Build A Tower (2018) and their two albums released in 2020, The Joy Of The Return and lockdown album, 91 Days In Isolation. Reputed for their independence, the band’s journey started with the self-release of their debut, The Slow Readers Club in 2011.
 
Formed of Aaron Starkie (vocals) Kurtis Starkie (guitar) James Ryan (bass) and David Whitworth (drums), in 2009, the band’s growth has come in tandem with transformative arena tours as guests of folk-indie legends, James, alongside support slots with Morrissey, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Pixies, Shed Seven and The Charlatans. Their own, memorable headline shows at Manchester’s O2 Apollo and London’s Scala are pinned as highlights of a career well into a third decade and solidifies their presence as one of the UK’s most celebrated, truly independent bands.  

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