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Damn Vandals – Second Album Coming In April

• 11th Feb 2014

The highly anticipated new Damn Vandals album ‘Rocket Out Of London’ will be released on 7th April 2014, preceded by the single ‘Twist Up And Tangle’ on 17th March.

The album is the follow-up to their critically acclaimed debut ‘Done For Desire’, which was Shaun Keaveny’s BBC 6Music Record of the Week and one of Bloomberg’s ‘Best CDs of 2012’. ‘Rocket Out Of London’ will now consolidate the group’s reputation as being one of the few great contemporary British rock bands.

Taut and wired, lyrically breathless, coherently unhinged – the 10 new tracks thunder by. The album is produced by Julian Simmons (Midlake, Ed Sheeran, Guillemots, Goldheart Assembly). Jack Kansas’s fried and frenzied vocals duel with Frank Pick’s equally explosive guitars whilst Adam Kilemore Gardens on bass and Chris Christianson on drums deliver the urgent rhythmic backdrop.

The album’s tracks explore psychotic musical obsession, celebrity stalking, hard liquor, lazy stoners, death by dreams, hatred of school, the crippling hollowness of pornography, late nights, madness and homeland security.

The band’s exhilarating live shows have gained them a reputation as “one of the most exciting bands to surface from the UK this year” (This is Fake DIY) – with BBC 6Music’s Chris Hawkins adding: “Damn Vandals, a great live band, thoroughly recommend seeing them … absolutely superb, so much energy on stage, a proper rock n roll band.”