It's all coming up 'Roses' for GURU

Words: Ellie Ward 

Brighton indie punks GURU have pruned a new release with the fragrant single, 'Roses', out now through Permanent Creeps.

Their first produce of the year, the pummeling track (which we heard in their live set earlier in the year at Brighton), is delivered by frontman Tommy Cherrill spitting out the biting lyrics over a wall of fuzzy guitars and a oscillating rhythm section, driven by the band's trademark jittery energy.

“'Roses' is about the uphill struggle of trying to get anything done when you're at the bottom of the pecking order, whilst simultaneously knowing you don't want to be anything like the people at the top," explains Cherrill.

"It's about playing the game even though you don't want to, levelling with yourself that every step you take closer to success, can potentially cause you to become less like the change you want to see. I thought this was best exemplified by the gifting of a rose, which can be seen as both a gesture of gratitude, and of buttering someone up. I guess now is a better time than ever to put this out - with leaders, landlords, employers etc all showing a remarkable lack of empathy to the everyday lives and wellbeing of those less fortunate.

"It shouldn't be necessary that people in the most vulnerable of positions have to work the hardest to enact compassionate change which should come from the top.”