Sleaford Mods have teased a “big announcement” coming tomorrow (January 17) under the hashtag #UKGRIM.
The Nottingham punk-rap duo look set to announce their new album tomorrow morning at 11am GMT, encouraging fans to sign up for their mailing list here.
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“Tomorrow. 11am. Big announcement,” the pair wrote on Twitter. Don’t be a bellend and miss it.”
Alongside the tweet was a 10-second teaser video, a collaboration with British artist and satirist Cold War Steve, featuring Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn cruising on a bumper car ride past graffiti that reads: “Yuppies out.”
Check it out below.
Tomorrow. 11am. Big announcement. Don't be a
and miss it. Sign up to the mailing list: https://t.co/vlW1x0icgw#UKGRIM pic.twitter.com/5xHNsVMYUx
— Sleaford Mods (@sleafordmods) January 16, 2023
Sleaford Mods’ last album, āSpare Ribsā, came out in January 2021, described by NME in a five-star review as “a bracing dose of reality and their best album yet”.
“Williamson and Fearn unflinchingly show you life ā particularly the shittier corners of it, while flashing a swift middle finger at those who create them,” it continued.
“Hereās your prescribed dose of reality with an unmistakable and intoxicating Sleaford Mods flavour. The extraordinary āSpare Ribsā is graffiti on a concrete wall; thereās no manifesto, no easy answers and nowhere to hide.”
The band also performed at last year’s Glastonbury Festival, a set which NME said might have seemed an “odd fit” for Worthy Farm, but still saw them bring a “cathartic party” on the West Holts Stage.
In October last year, Orbital shared their Sleaford Mods collaboration āDirty Ratā alongside the announcement of new album āOptical Delusionā.
āThis track is a giant capital letter,ā explained Orbitalās Paul Hartnoll. āLike in the Book of Kells, where the very first letter always gets the big treatment from the monk when heās doing his illustrated borders. Itās got that old school dance music vibe with bits of Cabaret Voltaire in there, even bits of The Shamen. Itās a little bit punk rock, nice and loud. A really refreshing, āwake upā kind of track. And Jason is just brilliant!ā
āI guess itās about telling people to take responsibility for their own actions,ā added Phil Hartnoll. āYou know, all these politicians donāt come from out of nowhere. Somebody keeps voting them in. So who might that beā¦?ā
āThe ongoing culture of non-thought mostly exists because of a lack of education into critical thought,ā said Williamson of Sleaford Mods. āHow do you mobilise a people firmly imprisoned by a concrete system?ā
In 2012, Orbital also released a remixĀ of Sleaford Modsā track āI Donāt Rate Youā.
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