Words: Ali Mack
Egyptian Blue, the Brighton-via-Colchester psych-rock post-punks, unveil their debut EP ‘Collateral Damage’ today - via Yala! Records, the label co-founded by former Maccabee Felix White - along with an anxiety-fulled new video, directed by Jonathan Waller.
It's been almost four years since they put out maiden single 'Do you think you're worth your soul?' so the quartet have taken their time with this extended player, produced by Theo Verney; honing their uncompromising brute repetition of grinding riffs, alongside a taut rhythm section and intense post-punk grooves, to the nth degree.
Anxious, angsty and foreboding, the title track is driven by Luke Phelps’ propulsive bass combined with tight percussion, as dual frontmen Andy Buss and Leith Ambrose deliver lyrics which explode with sharp vitriol.
Buss wrote the song after visiting a friend who suffers from severe social anxiety. “He told me he’d fallen in love with someone he met online,” he explains. “But he was coming to terms with the realisation that they’d never be able to meet it person due to his anxiety. It broke my heart.”
Live dates
JUNE
27 Oxford, Jericho Tavern *
JULY
03 London, Rough Trade East
13 Southampton, Heartbreakers *
15 Cambridge, Portland Arms *
16 Guildford, The Boileroom *
23 York, The Crescent *
24 Leicester, The Cookie *
25 Liverpool, Arts Club *
AUGUST
03 Edenbridge, Neverworld Festival
17 Leeds, Hyde Park Book Club
31 Secret Festival Date!
SEPTEMBER
06 The Netherlands, Paard van Stal Festival
07 The Netherlands, Asten-Heusden, Misty Fields Festival
OCTOBER
23 London, Servant Jazz Quarters
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