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Track of the Day: Slowcoaches – Ex Head

• 16th Feb 2016

Feeling frustrated today? Stick this new one from London-based Slowcoaches in your lugholes and revel in their distinct brand of slacker-tinged, thrashy punk as it all washes away.

You can listen to their new single ‘Ex Head’ – which will be released on 26th Feb via Leisure & District – in full below, a taught and frenetic trash-covered slice of skate-inspired rock and roll that writhes around very satisfyingly under guitar lead lines reminiscent of Dead Kennedys and a healthy dose of feedback that promises an electric live show.

As vocalist/bassist Heather Perkins reveals: “This song is about a million things but mostly, it’s a song about spending too much time with people that drain your emotional resources. But also being that person that drains the emotional resources of others. It’s about having to identify and separate yourself from that person, or learn to handle that part of your brain that constantly drains your body of energy.

The title refers to two things; having someone on your mind all the time (the ex in your head), so much that your brain becomes a warped cassette playing over and over and also to losing a part of your mind that you wanted to squash. At the time I wrote it, I was trying to pull apart the light and the dark sides of my mind and work out why the negative side was so overwhelming. Once I did that, I could stop moving in circles.”

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February:
Thursday 25th • London • Sebright Arms

March:
Thursday 10th • York • The Basement
Friday 11th • Manchester • Castle Hotel (w/ Radical Boy)
Saturday 12th • Nottingham • The Chameleon
Monday 14th • Edinburgh • Banshee Labyrinth
Tuesday 15th • Glasgow • The Hug & Pint
Wednesday 16th • Newcastle • Little Buildings, Ouseburn
Thursday 17th • Liverpool • Maguires Pizza Bar
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Saturday 19th • Leeds • Temple Of Boom (w/ Radical Boy)