Launching into the new year with a seismic new single, London six-piece – SKINNY LISTER – today release ‘My Distraction’.
A premier piece of procrastination-inspired power-pop goodness, ‘My Distraction’ finds its touch points in the angular and playful sounds comparable to Blondie or The Jam at their peak. A new-wave flecked, sugar-coated thrill clocking in at just over the two-and-a half-minute mark, the single is the latest cut to be lifted from the band’s highly anticipated new album: ’The Story Is…’ (out 1st March 2019, on Xtra Mile Recordings).
On typically fun-loving form, ‘My Distraction’ is of course companioned with a wonderfully tongue-in-cheek new video that sees the band playing on the track’s themes of our tech-binging addictions. In scenes perhaps best described as ‘GoggleBox meets Star Trek’, the video finds frontwoman Lorna Thomas unexpectedly transported across space and time at the hands of her TV remote… Watch the new video below!
Offering further insight into the themes of the new single, Skinny’s Dan & Lorna say: “’My Distraction’ is about being so obsessed with something that everything else falls by the wayside. When only one thing is in focus and everything else is merely background noise. Even though written initially with broader meaning, the lyrics are particularly fitting for our current fixation with modern technology and, even more particularly, our tethering of ourselves to our smart phones.”
As with the rest of the upcoming 2019 album ‘The Story Is…’, ‘My Distraction’ was recorded, produced and mixed with the producer extraordinaire Barny Barnicott (Arctic Monkeys, The Enemy, The Temper Trap). The single directly follows on from previous singles ‘38 Minutes’ and title-track ‘The Story Is…’.A loosely-based concept album, ‘The Story Is…’ anthologises aseries of personal vignettes inspired by a chaotic few years for the band and binds them into 14 tracks of unmistakably Skinny-sounding rock’n’roll. Gather-in close and lend your ears as Skinny Lister rifle through ‘The Story Is…’ and pull out: scorched stories of aggravated arsonists (‘Artist Arsonist’), rib-tickling tales of regretful re-fuellings (‘Diesel Vehicle’), and even polemic pleas inspired by some of life’s hardest lessons (‘Stop & Breathe’).
’The Story is…’ is released via Xtra Mile Recordings on 1st March 2019.
With one of the most reputable live shows in the business (hailed as “a deafening and visceral experience” – The Independent, 5/5), Skinny Lister will also be touring ‘The Story Is…’ with a series of their tenacious live shows across the UK & Europe in 2019.
Don’t miss your chance to become part of their latest adventures as the band embark on a two-leg UK tour, plus fix dates in Germany, Czech Republic, Switzerland, France, Holland and Belgium throughout the Spring. (Dates below).
SKINNY LISTER: ‘THE STORY IS…’ 2019 TOURUK TOUR – LEG 1
FEB28th – Brighton Concorde 2
MARCH1st – Norwich Arts Centre2nd – Southampton 18656th – Bristol Fleece7th – Glasgow King Tuts8th – Leeds Key Club9th – Leicester Academy
EUROPEAN TOUR: MARCH 13th – Berlin SO3614th – Kiel Orange Club15th – Erfurt Kalif Storch16th – Prague Futurum17th – Nurnberg Der Hirsch19th – Frankfurt Batschkapp20th – Wien Arena21st – Munich Strom22nd – Bern Bierhubeli23rd – Zurich Dynamo26th – Paris La Maroquinerie27th – Rouen Le 10628th – Amsterdam Paradiso Noord29th – Cologne Stollwerk30th – Antwerp Kavka
UK TOUR – LEG 2: APRIL3rd – Edinburgh The Mash House4th – Newcastle Riverside5th – Nottingham Rescue Rooms6th – Manchester Club Academy 210th – Cambridge Junction 111th – London Electric Ballroom