U.K. post-punk band Talk Show announce debut album 'Effigy,' release new single "Gold"
U.K. post-punk band Talk Show have revealed details about their debut album.
Revealed today, Effigy will be released on February 16 via Missing Piece Records. The nine-track release was produced by Remi Kabaka Jr. of Gorillaz. To celebrate the announcement, Talk Show has delivered a new single (and opening track) from Effigy titled “Gold.” An accompanying music video, which can be seen below, was directed by Ashley Rommelrath.
Vocalist Harrison Swann said this about the new song, which has been previewed at shows:
“The first song we wrote for the album was ‘Gold.’ We started with an underlying, pulsing bass, and I just started mumbling words and lines over top. ‘Gold coins at the bottom of my pocket’ just kinda fell out. It’s weird we just knew we had something special to us straight away. It had a climatic feel, with feelings of frustration and turmoil, mixed with tensions and release. We looked at early The Prodigy and those songs with that type of energy and that helped form the rest of the track.
We’ve been playing Gold live at various shows for the past year or so and it always seemed to grab people going straight away. We tinkered with it along the way, but essentially it’s stayed the same since the very first day. In the studio, the main goal was to just bottle up the energy of the track and get that down on record. It had to feel massive. I wanted it to sound bigger than anything we’d written before.”
Talk Show have also announced a headlining tour across Europe and the U.K., which kicks off on February 28 at Dublin’s Workamns Cellar. Tour dates can be seen below. Tickets for the London, Manchester, and Brighton shows will go on sale tomorrow (November 3) at 10 a.m. Tickets for remaining shows are on sale right now here.
Effigy tracklisting
1. Gold
2. Oh! You’re! All! Mine!
3. Red/White
4. Closer
5. Oil at the Bottom of a Drum
6. Got Sold
7. Panic
8. Small Blue World
9. Catalonia
Talk Show tour dates
February 28 – Dublin @ Workamns Cellar
March 1 – Glasgow @ Broadcast
March 2 – Edinburgh @ Sneaky Petes
March 5 – Sheffield @ Yellow Arch Studios
March 6 – Manchester @ Yes (Pink Room)
March 7 – Brighton @ The Hope And Ruin
March 8 – London @ Courtyard Theatre
March 9 – Bristol @ Crofters Rights
March 26 – Amsterdam @ Bitterzoet
March 27 – Brussels @ Botanique
March 28 – Lille @ Aeronef
March 30 – Paris @ Le Hasard Ludique