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, âSpare Ribsâ, 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 â particularly the shittier corners of it, while flashing a swift middle finger at those who create them,” it continued.
“Hereâs your prescribed dose of reality with an unmistakable and intoxicating Sleaford Mods flavour. The extraordinary âSpare Ribsâ is graffiti on a concrete wall; thereâs 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 âDirty Ratâ alongside the announcement of new album âOptical Delusionâ.
âThis track is a giant capital letter,â explained Orbitalâs Paul Hartnoll. âLike in the Book of Kells, where the very first letter always gets the big treatment from the monk when heâs doing his illustrated borders. Itâs got that old school dance music vibe with bits of Cabaret Voltaire in there, even bits of The Shamen. Itâs a little bit punk rock, nice and loud. A really refreshing, âwake upâ kind of track. And Jason is just brilliant!â
âI guess itâs about telling people to take responsibility for their own actions,â added Phil Hartnoll. âYou know, all these politicians donât come from out of nowhere. Somebody keeps voting them in. So who might that beâŠ?â
âThe ongoing culture of non-thought mostly exists because of a lack of education into critical thought,â said Williamson of Sleaford Mods. âHow do you mobilise a people firmly imprisoned by a concrete system?â
In 2012, Orbital also released a remix of Sleaford Modsâ track âI Donât Rate Youâ.
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