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Announces New Album Live In New York
To Be Released October 27th
Returning to The U.S. for Select Dates this Fall
“Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs do many things but they also embody the theatre, camp, and sheer fun of all the best heavy music.” - Pitchfork
“Pigs x7 (as we’ll refer to them) might have the weirdest band name ever, but to call their bizarre choice of nomenclature a gimmick would be to dismiss a decades-worth of quality heavy psych.” - Consequence of Sound
“Standing at the nexus of doomy stoner metal, fuzz-blasted psych-rock, and bracing post-rock…” - AllMusic
“Newcastle, England’s finest purveyors of 10-ton riffola and overdriven doom…” - Under the Radar
August 31, 2023: Today the Newcastle, UK-based group Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs announced the upcoming release of a new live album, Live In New York. The album showcases their fiery live show from their April 2023 performance at New York City’s Mercury Lounge, on their recent tour in support of the acclaimed LP Land Of Sleeper. The group has also shared the newly emerging fan favorite “Big Rig” from the album, a spiraling metal odyssey which oscillates between hard driving space-punk thrash and sludge-laden, tectonic riffs. Live In New York will be released via Missing Piece Records and is currently available for pre-order here.
Drummer Ewan Mackenzie says “our show at Mercury Lounge in Manhattan NYC was the last date of our North American tour, and the final chapter of a wonderful musical adventure for us. We had already had the privilege of playing at St. Vitus in Brooklyn at the start of the tour, and so returning to NYC again felt like a kind of homecoming. The atmosphere was electric that night, there was magic in the air and a special connection among everyone in the room."
Mackenzie continues, "'Big Rig' is such a joy to play, like a journey in itself, with big changes, breakdowns and tangents: you feel like you’re hanging on for dear life as the song sweeps you into another mind-bending section.”
Live In New York comes in the wake of tours across the UK, Europe and North America, festivals across the UK, Greece, Norway, Latvia, Belgium, Netherlands and Germany and the release of their killer live KEXP session. The band’s 2023 album Land of Sleeper (currently available on vinyl and streaming services) has been praised by Pitchfork, Clash, The Line of Best Fit, and more. Videos were released for the coruscating “Ultimate Hammer,” a high-octane sonic ride that melds classic riffage with the group’s predilection for offbeat chaos, and “Mr Medicine,” the audio equivalent of sticking a fork in plug socket. They also previously released a blistering live performance video of the track “Terror’s Pillow.”
Land of Sleeper is the heavy-psych/garage-rock band’s fourth studio album and follows 2020’s Viscerals, which Under The Radar described as a “sense bludgeoning amalgamation of metal, punk, and experimental noise at its most brutal,” while Louder declared it “Utterly enthralling.” Kerrang writes, “melding the fuzzed-up, stripped-back muscle of heavyweights like Black Sabbath and Motörhead to progressive sludginess, then pouring on a generous helping of the wryly abstract humor of IDLES, this third album is a strange, unruly offering.”
Live In New York Tracklist:
01. Mr Medicine (Live)
02. Rubbernecker (Live)
03. Ultimate Hammer (Live)
04. World Crust (Live)
05. Big Rig (Live)
06. Terror's Pillow (Live)
07. GNT (Live)
08. A66 (Live)
U.S. Tour Dates:
10/29/23 - Austin, TX - Hotel Vegas
10/31/23 - Troy, NY - No Fun Festival
11/01/23 - New Haven, CT - Space Ballroom
11/02/23 - Boston, MA - The Sinclair
11/03/23 - Brooklyn, NY - Elsewhere
11/04/23 - Washington, DC - Atlantis
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