The Vegan Leather play the heavy riffs on 'Heavy Handed'

Words: Sam Geary 

Paisley art-poppers The Vegan Leather are building up to the release of their debut album, 'Poor Girls / Broken Boys', out October 25, with single cut drop, ‘Heavy Handed’.

Bordered by a raft of heavy riffs, Gianluca Bernacchi and Marie Collins lend dual vocals to the exhilarating mix.

“The song is about being part of a cultural scene or environment that you’re not comfortable with, not feeling ‘cool’ enough or that your art isn’t ‘good’ enough',” says Collins. “It’s that pressure to feed the cultural zeitgeist but standing in defiance and writing what you actually want to write about and being able to be who you want to be.”

The Vegan Leather play an album launch show on November 2 at King Tut's Wah Wah Hut in Glasgow.