VIAGRA BOYS RELEASE NEW ALBUM CAVE WORLD OUT NOW VIA YEAR0001 |
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Photo Credit: Fredrik Bengsston “Believe me, it is a banger”. - WIRED “With mentions of conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers, it is, in many ways, a reflection of society at present, packaged in Murphy’s instantly recognisable strain of debauched post-punk” - Dazed “The Boys bring their signature heavy rock sound and adults-only storytelling style to this cheeky slammer.” - KCRW Stockholm post-punk band V**gra Boys (**= "ia" because spam FILTERS) have released their third studio album Cave World via YEAR0001. Produced by past collaborators Pelle Gunnerfeldt (The Hives, The Knife, etc.) and DJ HaydnFollowing, Cave World’s cultivated amalgamation of focused writing, astute humor, and sharp production serve to solidify the band’s position as the apex of modern punk music. Thematically, the album is inspired by the chaos and absurdity of the world’s current climate, with the entire project acting as jocular satire comparing the ludicrous & horrific trends of mass-shootings and science denial to the lives of our ancestors as cave people. On the album’s theme, frontman Sebastion Murphy notes "People look down at apes as primitive life forms, but we're just this horrible, lazy society killing each other and starting wars, while they’re able to love and feel. Does that make them the true ape or us?" Listen to Cave World HERE As 2021’s Welfare Jazz was earning rave reviews from the likes of Pitchfork, NPR, GQ, NME, Stereogum, Fader, and more, Viagra Boys were in the midst of rerecording what would become their followup. After putting together an entire album at the legendary Silence Studio in the town of Koppom, the band decided they could push harder. "We let it marinate for a while and then rerecorded absolutely everything," Murphy explains. Some of the music made it through to what would become Cave World, but replacing the lyrics. In that iterative process, Murphy found himself returning time and again to a misconception with deeper roots: the idea that humanity is moving forward. After watching a video late one evening about a theory that suggests evolution involved trading in some cognitive abilities for others, Murphy began stewing on the fact that the result was mass shootings and science denial, the end result of that stewing being the album available today. The band comes back to the US for a Fall 2022 US Co-headline tour with UK band Shame. Kicking off September 29th for two nights at Oakland’s New Parish and wrapping on Halloween in Dallas, the twenty-three date tour will make stops in Denver, Nashville, Brooklyn, New Orleans and so much more (full dates below). The band will then head to the EU for an additional run of dates, making this their largest tour yet. More dates remain to be announced as well. |
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Cave World Tracklisting: Baby Criminal Cave Hole Troglodyte Punk Rock Loser Creepy Crawlers The Cognitive Trade-Off Hypothesis Globe Earth Ain’t No Thief Big Boy ADD Human Error Return To Monke US TOUR DATES FALL, CO-HEADLINE WITH SHAME 2022
Sep 26, 2022 - Santa Cruz, CA, Catalyst Sep 27, 2022 - Oakland CA, New Parish Sep 28, 2022 - San Francisco CA, The Regency Oct 4, 2022 - Tuscon AZ, Club Congress Oct 5, 2022 - Albuquerque NM, Sister Oct 7, 2022 - Boulder CO, Fox Oct 8, 2022 - Denver CO, Gothic Oct 10, 2022 - St Louis MO, Red Flag Oct 11, 2022 - Nashville TN, Brooklyn Bowl Oct 12, 2022 - Louisville KY, Headliners Oct 14, 2022 - Cincinnati OH, Woodward Oct 15, 2022 - Pittsburgh PA, Mr Smalls Oct 17, 2022 - Jersey City NJ, White Eagle Hall Oct 18, 2022 - Brooklyn NY, Brooklyn Steel Oct 20, 2022 - Baltimore MD, Union Brewery Oct 21, 2022 - Carrboro NC, Cat's Cradle Oct 22, 2022 - Asheville NC, Orange Peel Oct 23, 2022 - Atlanta GA, Terminal West Oct 25, 2022 - New Orleans, LA Toulouse Theater Oct 27, 2022 - Houston TX, White Oak Music Hall Oct 28, 2022 - Austin TX, Venue TBD Oct 31, 2022 - Dallas TX, Granada
EU TOUR DATES DECEMBER 2022
Dec 7, 2022 - DE, Berlin - Astra Dec 8, 2022 - DE, Karlsruhe - Substage Dec 10, 2022 - NL, Utrecht The - Tivoli Dec 11, 2022 - FR, Paris - Bataclan Dec 12, 2022 - BE, Antwerp - Trix Dec 14, 2022 - CH, Zurich - X-tra Dec 15, 2022 - IT, Milan - Fabrique
Jan 20, 2023 - UK, Nottingham - Rock City Jan 21, 2023 - UK, Glasgow - Barrowlands Jan 23, 2023 - IE, Dublin - Olympia Jan 24, 2023 - UK, Cardiff - Great Hall Jan 25, 2023 - UK, London - Brixton Academy
Jan 28, 2023 - SE, Stockholm Annexet March 29 - DK, Copenhagen - Vega March 30 - NO, Oslo - Rockefeller March 31 - FI, Helsinki - Vanha Ylioppilastalo FOR MORE ON V**GRA BOYS |
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