Snapped Ankles announce new album 'Hard Times Furious Dancing' released 28th March 2025

Snapped Ankles - Hard Times Furious Dancing (28 March)

Snapped Ankles have given up trying to make sense of it all. The forest only offers so much protection. Feeding on a diet of fractured narratives, meme culture, viral moments and the very worst of human impulses weighs heavy. The woodwose hold up a mirror to the absurdity of modern life once again. The only sane response is to dance. Make your way to the clearing, gather around the megalith of speakers, drum machines, amps and synthesisers and dance like there’s no tomorrow. Watch the video for first single ‘Raoul’ (out today) below - a feverish conversation about geopolitics between unreliable narrators over buzzing synths and howling dogs.    Download 'Raoul' here   Hard Times Furious Dancing will be released on CD and digital, and in four vinyl formats including black vinyl, a limited edition indies only ‘Don Quixote’s Green’ vinyl edition, and a Bandcamp only ‘Weird & Eerie’ luminous vinyl edition of 800. There is also a Dinked Edition of 700 on ‘Procession of the Possessed’ pink vinyl, which also includes an ‘Armchair Protest Banner’ (aka a tea towel) and a ‘Hard Times Preparation Manual’ booklet.   Press Release | High Res Artwork | Press Photo ­ Artist: Snapped Ankles Title: Hard Times Furious Dancing Label: The Leaf Label Formats: Black vinyl LP (BAY 134V) Limited Dinked Edition ‘Procession of the Possessed’ pink vinyl LP + ‘zine + tea towel (700 copies) (BAY 134VD) Limited edition Bandcamp only ‘Weird & Eerie’ luminous LP (800 copies) (BAY 134 VBC) CD (BAY 134CD) Digital (BAY 134E) Release Date: Friday 28th March 2025 CD LP2 1. A1. Pay the Rent 2. A2. Personal Responsibilities 3. A3. Raoul 4. A4. Dancing In Transit 5. B1. Where’s the Caganer? 6. B2. Smart World 7. B3. Hagen Im Garten 8. B4. 摆烂 Bai Lan 9. B5. Closely Observed Hard Times Furious Dancing is an invitation to all those lost in the unrelenting noise of the present, to leave it all behind and come together in the forest. Driven by the primitive thrust of their single-oscillator ‘log’ synths, high and low culture collide in a surreal, free flowing narrative - but the rhythm is universal. This is easily the closest Snapped Ankles have come to capturing their rapturous live energy in the studio. It’s everything you’ve come to know and love from a Snapped Ankles album, amped all the way up until the ground begins to shake.    The first single, ‘Raoul’, is a feverish conversation about geopolitics between unreliable narrators over buzzing synths and howling dogs. The protagonists? Raoul Duke and Don Quixote of course - the original and best where unreliable narrators are concerned. ‘Pay The Rent’ takes a sideways look at how the global cost of living crisis is putting a squeeze on the arts – or “Dancing at the misery of the situation,” as frontman Austin puts it. Which leads neatly on to ‘Dancing In Transit’ – a true tale of bumping into ballroom dancers while stuck in post-Brexit Eurotunnel customs purgatory and “getting an impromptu tango class in the middle of the mayhem”. Elsewhere there are odes to various pioneers of arthouse cinema, Neue Deutsche Welle and krautrock, and defecating nativity figurines. Standard Snapped Ankles’ fare.   The sound of Hard Times Furious Dancing evolved at Snapped Ankles’ South London ‘Forest Rayve’ club nights in 2024 in response to that age-old primal urge to bring people together and make them move. It’s the first time the woodwose have road tested new material to this extent before committing it to tape since debut album Come Play The Trees, and in doing so have harnessed that feral energy once again. This surreal human/woodwose connection is the very best release from an algorithm that knows you better than you know yourself. Dance it all loose.   Snapped Ankles embark on their biggest tour to date, with a run of over thirty shows in the UK and Europe this spring, including a night at Fabric in London on May 15th. Support for the March UK leg comes courtesy of The Sick Man Of Europe. ­ Snapped Ankles Live:   Fri 7 Feb           Northern Winter Beat, Aalborg, DENMARK Wed 5 Mar       Bedford Esquires, Bedford, UK # Thu 6 Mar         Junction, Cambridge, UK # Fri 7 Mar           Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich, UK #  Sat 8 Mar          Colchester Arts Centre, Colchester, UK # Tue 11 Mar       Crookes Social Club, Sheffield, UK * Wed 12 Mar      The Crescent, York, UK * Thu 13 Mar       The Georgian Theatre, Stockton-on-Tees, UK * Fri 14 Mar         Room 2, Glasgow, UK * Sat 15 Mar        Rough Trade, Liverpool, UK * Tue 18 Mar       Face Bar, Reading, UK * Wed 19 Mar      Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, UK Thu 20 Mar       Lantern Hall, Bristol, UK *  Fri 21 Mar         Hare & Hounds, Birmingham, UK * Sat 22 Mar        Rescue Rooms, Nottingham, UK * Tue 1 Apr         L'Aeronef, Lille, FRANCE Wed 2 Apr        Maroquinerie, Paris, FRANCE Thu 3 Apr         Museum @ Botanique, Brussels, BELGIUM Fri 4 Apr           EKKO, Utrecht, NETHERLANDS Sat 5 Apr          Paradiso Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS Sun 6 Apr         Effenaar, Eindhoven, NETHERLANDS Tue 8 Apr         Bumann & Sohn, Cologne, GERMANY Wed 9 Apr        Hafenklang, Hamburg, GERMANY Thu 10 Apr       Polimagie Festival @ Beatpol, Dresden, GERMANY Fri 11 Apr         Urban Spree, Berlin, GERMANY Sat 12 Apr        Import / Export, Munich, GERMANY Tue 15 Apr        Commissary Art Space, Heidelberg, GERMANY Wed 16 Apr      Palace, St Gallen, SWITZERLAND Thu 17 Apr        Fri-Son, Fribourg, SWITZERLAND Fri 18 Apr         Arci Bellezza, Milan, ITALY Sat 19 Apr        Covo, Bologna, ITALY Fri 9 May          The Forum, Tunbridge Wells, UK Sat 10 May        Boileroom, Guildford, UK Tue 13 May       The Old Market, Brighton, UK Wed 14 May     Papillon, Southampton, UK Thu 15 May       Fabric, London, UK Fri 16 May         The Tin, Coventry, UK Sat 17 May        Meltchester Festival, Manchester, UK   # with Maria Uzor * with The Sick Man Of Europe   ­

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