Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard Announce Second Album 'Skinwalker' With New Single National Rust
Friday, 26 January 2024
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Charlie Harris
Buzzard, Buzzard, Buzzard have shared details of their second album.
The follow-up to the 2022 Welsh Music Prize nominated 'Backhand Deals' is called 'Skinwalker' and will arrive on April 12 via Communion Records.
It was written and recorded at frontman and producer Tom Rees's Rat Trap studio, where Rees also produced material for rising acts such as Panic Shack, Do Nothing and The Bug Club.
Inspired by the Navajo legend of the Skinwalker, an evil shapeshifter, from which the record takes its name, it was previously teased with Therapy, and the earlier single Chew. Today, the Cardiff-based quartet have dropped a third taster in the form of the catchy, '70s funk-influenced National Rust. Rees commented:
"National Rust was my attempt at consolidating my 2020 obsession with Sly and the Family Stone with my 2021 obsession with David Bowie's album ‘Low’. It was the first song that really paved the way for the new album, it broke a lot of the sonic boundaries that I was writing within when starting the second album, “I AM NOT AFRAID OF PLAYING FUNKY GUITAR!”, I exclaimed, mu-tron in hand.
"Lyrically, it made a statement that informed my songwriting moving forward as well, being a flagrant rejection of my previous political song writing, and an admission of alienation amongst a plethora of information. 'National Rust' acts as a bridge between my younger, more political perspective, and my more recent, more apathetic one."
Ahead of the album's release, Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard will embark on a previously scheduled UK tour in March. They're also set to appear at In It Together Festival in Margam, Wales, in May, following sets at Manchester's Fair Play and Bristol's Outer Town. Tickets are on sale now.
'Skinwalker' tracklist:
1. Intro
2. National Rust
3. Chew
4. My Star Sign Is A Basset Hound
5. Sugar Sandwich
6. The Drowning Bell
7. Leatherbound
8. In My Egg
9. Therapy
10. Human Compression
11. Night Of The Skinwalker
Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Fri March 01 2024 - OXFORD Jericho Tavern
Sun March 03 2024 - EXETER Cavern
Mon March 04 2024 - FALMOUTH Cornish Bank
Thu March 07 2024 - CHELMSFORD Hot Box
Fri March 08 2024 - IPSWICH Smokehouse
Sun March 10 2024 - TUNBRIDGE WELLS Forum
Tue March 12 2024 - MILTON KEYNES Craufurd Arms
Wed March 13 2024 - ST ALBANS Horn
Thu March 14 2024 - RAMSGATE Music Hall
Sat March 16 2024 - PETERBOROUGH Met Lounge
Sun March 17 2024 - BIRMINGHAM Hare And Hounds
Mon March 18 2024 - HULL Polar Bear
Wed March 20 2024 - STOCKTON KU
Thu March 21 2024 - SUNDERLAND Independent
Fri March 22 2024 - EDINBURGH Voodoo Rooms - Speakeasy
Sat March 23 2024 - CARDIFF Fuel Rock Club
Sun March 24 2024 - GRIMSBY Docks Academy
Mon March 25 2024 - YORK Fulford Arms
Tue March 26 2024 - CLITHEROE Swan and Royal
Wed March 27 2024 - FROME Tree House
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