Formed of Vocalist/Guitarist Will Keating, Guitarists Max Peniket and Jim Allsop, Bassist Jake Aitman and Drummer Alex Hinton-Smith, Oxford Pop Punk group BETTER THAN NEVER are pleased to reveal details of their forthcoming EP, Head Under Water, which will be released via Fox Records on 2nd December, which you can preorder now using following links:
Recorded with Ian Sadler at Emeline Studios, the boys said “He was hugely passionate about our genre and he really took time and care in crafting our EP.”
With the return of their original drummer Alex who “just made every element of the EP feel a lot more natural and together”, the members sat down as a group and worked together on every track for several months, trying to perfect every aspect. As James recalls,
“We didn’t hesitate to pull something we’d written apart, even if we were happy with it, just so we could find tiny ways of making it more unique and stand out.”
‘Head Under Water’ Track Listing:
1: 126
2: Learning To Swim
3: Dreamland Ain’t All It’s Cracked Up To Be
4: Forty Eight
5: Lowhill Lane
You can check out the 2nd track off upcoming EP ‘Learning To Swim’ now on Soundcloud
The result is an EP jam-packed with hard-hitting layers: the dual vocalists are used to maximal effect, triple stacked guitars cleverly interplay and the lyrical content delivers a punch to the feels and has similar vibes to bands such as Blink 182, Sum 41, Stick To Your Guns and A Day To Remember.
Harris explains: “With this release we really wanted to pour our hearts into the lyrics, we spent time sitting down, and discussing issues and ideas that really affected us. For some of us this was recent happenings in politics, for others it was struggling with resurging depression and anxiety, and for Will it was dealing with Newcastle’s relegation from the premier league (forever the joker he is).”
The boys have couple of UK shows announced this Autumn. Go check them out at one their gigs!
October
23rd – The Exchange, Bristol
24th – The Sunflower Lounge, Birmingham
25th – The Wheatsheaf, Oxford
29th – Record Junkee, Sheffield
30th – Maguires’ Pizza Bar, Liverpool
November
13th – River Rooms, Stourbridge
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