Words: Ellie Ward
The Blinders are back with a kick ass new single, ‘Mule Track’. The latest to be taken from their upcoming album 'Fantasies Of A Stay At Home Psychopath' - out on July 17 via Modern Sky UK - the track was premiered by Steve Lamacq on BBC 6Music yesterday.
Alongside a foreboding blend of driving guitars and distorted vocals, the track interworks between explosive crescendos of irrepressible intensity and woozy segments which dive into a dark-shaded ethereal ambience, before firing up once again with rancorous resolve.
“‘Mule Track’ was initially inspired by the painting of the same name, exhibited in the Imperial War Museum, which depicts a mule train making its way through a battlefield, as well as being influenced by the artwork ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights'," the trio explain.
“The idea being explored is really that hell or versions of hell/heaven clearly exist within the world. It’s rejecting the simplistic notion or stereotype that heaven is above, hell is below and we all operate in this middle layer with the aim being to get to the higher level. ‘The Mule Track’ - the artwork - can’t help but instil the notion that what is being depicted is some sort of hell on earth.”
Listen in via the dark and surreal Sam Crowston-directed video, below.
Live dates
SEPTEMBER
08 Edinburgh, Caves (re-scheduled)
09 Leicester, O2 Academy 2 (re-scheduled)
11 Preston, Ferret (new date)
13 Hull, The Welly Club (re-scheduled)
14 London, 100 Club (re-scheduled)
16 Southampton, The Joiners (re-scheduled)
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