British duo Sleaford Mods have announced a new album, UK GRIM, out March 10, 2023 on Rough Trade Records. The album will be available on LP, CD and cassette, including black and white vinyl on the webstore, and an exclusive silver vinyl variant available via independent record stores. Sleaford Mods will tour North America this April in support of the new record, with stops in most major cities and appearances at both weekends of Coachella.
Lead track ‘UK GRIM’ was released today and is accompanied by the first-ever music video created by British collage artist and satirist Cold War Steve, who has previously done covers for Time Magazine and The New Statesman. The track continues Sleaford Mods’ uncanny ability to call out our times with anger and art, electronic innovation and erudite vision. Though no strangers to the dancefloor, the track’s minimal yet immersive beats add a physical power to the duo’s ever-insightful take on society.
Welcome to UK GRIM. Building on the unique, insurrectionary strengths of previous records while refining them in gripping new ways, Sleaford Mods’ newest album is a stunning step up. This is nothing less than a defining band and a voice of the people – like The Jam, The Clash or Public Enemy were – more fully realized than ever before. It is, unmistakably, the real deal.
Begun in the lockdowns of 2021, added to at JT Soars (the band’s go to work space), and finished at musical brain Andrew Fearn’s home studio, UK GRIM finds Fearn and Sleaford Mods’ soulful ranter-inquisitor Jason Williamson at their most immaculately enraged, disquieting and ferociously poetic. Following 2021’s Spare Ribs, it is, like all their records, a diagnosing of the sicknesses of society, a psychological blot test where the listener finds themselves revealed.
Williamson says Covid ennui, life online, and experience of how the music industry works all folded into the album: however it happened, this could still be the angriest Sleaford Mods record yet.
TRACKLIST
01) UK GRIM
02) D.I.Why
03) Force 10 From Navarone (feat. Florence Shaw)
04) Tilldipper
05) On The Ground
06) Right Wing Beast
07) Smash Each Other Up
08) Don
09) So Trendy (feat. Perry Farrell & Dave Navarro)
10) I Claudius
11) Pit 2 Pit
12) Apart From You
12) Tory Kong
14) Rhythms Of Class
North American Tour Dates
Wednesday, April 5 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
Friday, April 7 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall
Saturday, April 8 – Boston, MA @ Paradise
Tuesday, April 11 – Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts
Friday, April 14 – San Francisco, CA @ August Hall
Sunday, April 16 – Coachella Valley, CA @ Coachella
Tuesday, April 18 – Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile Showroom
Wednesday, April 19 – Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall
Thursday, April 20 – Vancouver, BC @ The Commodore
Sunday, April 23 – Coachella Valley, CA @ Coachella
