British Sea Power Shorten Name To Sea Power, Announce New Album 'Everything Was Forever'
Monday, 09 August 2021
Written by Laura Johnson
Photo: Hollywood
British Sea Power have announced a new album and name change (ish).
'Everything Was Forever', the follow-up to 2017's 'Let the Dancers Inherit the Party', will be released on February 11 under their amended moniker of Sea Power. Although the band have great love for the British Isles, they felt that in the current climate there was too much scope for misinterpreation of nationalism, and Sea Power has also long been an abbreviation used by fans.
Alongside news of the record and name change, the band have shared the album's first single, Two Fingers, an expansive indie-rock track that deals in ominous yet ethereal melodies, driving drums and captivating vocals. Vocalist and guitarist Jan Scott Wilkinson said:
“The song is part inspired by our late dad. He was always giving a two-fingered salute to people on the telly – a kind of old-fashioned drinking term, toasting people or events: ‘I’ll drink two fingers to that’, to some news item or to memories of a childhood friend. In the song it’s a toast to everyone, remembering those in our lives and those sadly no longer here and to making the world a better place. The song is 'F*** me, f*** you, f*** everything.' But it’s also 'Love me, love you, love everything' – exultation in the darkness. If you say ‘f*** you’ in the right way, it really can be cathartic, a new start.
“It’s maybe interesting that the song mentions nightmare monsters from the world of HP Lovecraft. This song has been around a little while, partly because of the big interruption of Covid. Between the song being written and the album being finished, the TV series Lovecraft Country was broadcast – which took the supernatural Lovecraft and ran it alongside 1950s America and Lovecraft’s racism. He was a terrible racist, a white supremacist, which is why his world is there in the song, like anti-matter – something full of horror and mankind at its worst. But, alongside the negative forces in the song, there’s also a strong hopeful intent, a desire to start anew. Beyond that, the track has influences that are just inspiring – David Lynch, Cold War Steve, the Sex Pistols, Joe Meek’s Telstar, the beauty of isolated landscapes.”
'Everything Was Forever' tracklist:
1. Scaring At The Sky
2. Transmitter
3. Two Fingers
4. Fire Escape In The Sea
5. Doppelgänger
6. Fear Eats The Soul
7. Folly
8. Green Goddess
9. Lakeland Echo
10. We Only Want To Make You Happy
Sea Power will play Milton Keynes and Stockton-on-Tees in September, prior to their rescheduled UK shows throughout October. Head below for ticket details.
Sea Power Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Thu September 09 2021 - MILTON KEYNES Craufurd Arms
Sat September 11 2021 - STOCKTON Georgian Theatre
Sat October 23 2021 - DERBY Venue - Derby
Sun October 24 2021 - LEICESTER O2 Academy2 Leicester
Mon October 25 2021 - EDINBURGH Liquid Room
Tue October 26 2021 - YORK Crescent
Thu October 28 2021 - GLOUCESTER Gloucester Guildhall
Fri October 29 2021 - BEDFORD Bedford Esquires
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