MUSICAL BRAIN SCAN SERIES: SAM LISTER
Dear free thinkers, we're very thrilled to introduce you today a new Musical Brain Scan! We hope you are riding this new week in the most groovy way. For this new episode we wanted to introduce you Dam Lister, he is the drummer of Crows: a noisy post-punk band based in the UK.
London four-piece Crows will release their highly anticipated second album, ‘Beware Believers’, on April 1st 2022 via Bad Vibrations Records. Conjuring a dark and visceral post-punk that’s been hardened by years of notoriously rowdy live shows, Crows have amassed a legion of die-hard fans since they formed back in 2015 and cultivated a singular, much-adored presence in the British alternative music scene. Equal parts ferocious and hedonistic, the incoming ‘Beware Believers’ LP arrives off the back of their critically acclaimed 2019 debut ‘Silver Tongues’, international touring and festival appearances, and shared stages with the likes of IDLES, Wolf Alice, Girl Band, Metz, Slaves and Protomartyr.
Following the release of their long-awaited debut album on the IDLES-run Balley Records back in 2019, Crows immediately set to work on its follow-up and by January 2020 they were already back in the studio tracking what would become the ‘Beware Believers’ LP – and then Covid hit. “Once we knew Covid was here to stay, we took the first break we’ve taken since we released our first single ‘Pray’ in 2015. Being locked down for three months unable to finish the last bits of the record was very frustrating but it did mean we could come back to the album with fresh ears and make sure it sounded like it should: a true representation of Crows.”
Loud, cathartic and abrasive – a quintessential Crows record it certainly is. “Beware Believers has felt like a marathon, a real endurance test that’s been a long, winding road filled with highs and lows and plenty of twists and turns”, frontman James Cox says: “The majority of the themes on the album came from what was going on in the world around Summer 2019 when we started writing the album. Covid wasn't in our lives and the biggest impact was Brexit and the madness our government were putting us through. I was reading a lot of J.G. Ballard and Kurt Vonnegut, mad dystopian overalls, whilst all this craziness was going on around us and it was a weird headspace to get into.”
We've asked Sam for his musical brain scan, here it is:
Still - Just Mustard
Call Me Midnight - Earl Sweatshirt
2002 - Enumclaw
Rage In The Plague Age - Les Savy Fav
Nice While It Lasted - Famous
Offence - Little Simz
Today's Lesson - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Pour Another - Yard Act
Televised - Michael Georgian
The Grey Commute - Nation Of Language
Slide Tackle - Japanese Breakfast
Stumblin' In - Suzi Quatro
Good Will Hunting - Black Country, New Road
Nike of Samothrace - Mandy, Indiana
Girls & Boys - Patrik Berger Remix - Viagra Boys, Patrik Berger
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