Listen :: PAWS - Impermanent

Words: Sam Geary

Glasgow pop-punks PAWS follow up 2014’s 'Youth Culture Forever' with the release of 'No Grace', out tomorrow, June 17, on FatCat.

Take a listen to 'Impermanent' from the album, which was produced by Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus - who also supplies backing vocals. According to a press release, it’s about the “fleeting impact of online hype”, as vocalist Phil Taylor explains:

"Bands margin their progress and success too much by the hand of what’s happening online. On a broader note, there’s reference to people scrolling through their lives and taking in the world around them through a rose-filtered camera rather than the perfectly clear one that they have in their skull. Their self esteem at the mercy of short-lived moments of instant gratification and praise. It’s easy enough to feel a little lost."



'Impairment', says Taylor, was "actually one of the last songs fully written for 'No Grace', even though I wrote the guitar parts and melody long before any of the other songs on the record. I was working on the lyrics right up to the last day of recording."

Live dates
JUNE
22 Dundee Conroy's Bar
23 Aberdeen The Lemon Tree
24 Edinburgh Summerhall
25 Glasgow Stereo
26 York Fulford Arms
27 Liverpool Studio 2
28 Leicester The Musician
29 Manchester Soup Kitchen
30 - Leeds Headrow House
JULY
01 Bristol Start The Bus
02 London Moth Club
03 Brighton Hope and Ruin
04 Birmingham Hare & Hounds
23 Sheffield Bungalows and Bears