Snapped Ankles share new single 'The Fish Needs A Bike' + start US tour

Snapped Ankles - The Fish Needs A Bike (out today)

No strangers to the fine art of taking a song and making it their own, Snapped Ankles follow up their 2018 Violations EP with their take on Blurt’s cult classic ‘The Fish Needs A Bike’. This is the sound of the woodwose letting loose on their post-punk standards songbook, after the ‘serious business’ of last year’s Forest Of Your Problems album. “We focused our logs on a band that we’ve always admired for their dedication to the simplicity of groove, whilst maintaining a fierce outsider stance,” the woodwose explain. “Blurting out primal rhythms and absurd poetry for over forty years, Ted Milton’s Blurt has been consistently singular in their output.” Snapped Ankles enlisted acclaimed electronic producer Luke Abbott to mix the track, giving sharper lines to those irresistible forest rhythms. Download: 'The Fish Needs A Bike' + press release + artwork Ending their biggest year for live performances so far, the band return to the USA for the Desert Daze festival in California at the end of September, as well as a handful of West Coast dates, before a late-night celebration at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London on October 15th, and an appearance at the SWN festival in Cardiff. Live: Wed 28 Sep - Rickshaw Stop, San Francisco, CA, USA Thu 29 Sep - Echoplex, Los Angeles, CA, USA Fri 30 Sep - Desert Daze Festival, Lake Perris, CA, USA Sat 1 Oct - Puscifer The Store, Jerome, AZ, USA Tue 4 Oct - Polaris Hall, Portland, OR, USA Wed 5 Oct - The Vera Project, Seattle, WA, USA Fri 14 Oct - Fonomo Festival, Bydgoszcz, POLAND Sat 15 Oct - QEH Foyer, Southbank Centre, London, UK Fri 21 Oct - Revelation, Ashford, UK Sat 22 Oct - Swn Festival, Cardiff, UK

artist: Snapped Ankles title: 'The Fish Needs A Bike' label: The Leaf Label formats: Digital (SNAP 16E) release date: Wednesday 28 September 2022

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On Forest of Your Problems: “Forest of Your Problems takes in Krautrock, tribal rhythms, post-punk - but it winds up sounding almost nothing like anyone else” The Guardian “Snapped Ankles scope has expanded, resulting in this riotous takedown of eco-hypocrisy and corporate greenwashing to the accompaniment of rhythms so wildly exuberant they could rearrange loins” 4/5, Mojo “Some madcap fusion between Devo and The Fall if they were trapped in a Forest” 7/10, Uncut “The kind of hyperactive, motorik bangers that can send audiences into hysterics” Album of the week, Brooklyn Vegan “One of the most intriguing bands to come out of London” Paste Magazine “Ten addictive dance cuts” The Quietus “A Goat-meet-The-Fall sound world that perfectly captures the group’s psychotic, eerie vision of the Anthropocene” 8/10, Loud & Quiet “There are not many bands that sounds as unique as Snapped Ankles” All Music

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