Band Of Skulls have today released new single ‘Love Is All You Love’ and it’s accompanying video, which was premiered by Billboard . ‘Love Is All You Love’ is the title track from Band Of Skulls new album, produced by Richard X, which is released this Friday April 12 on So Recordings.
Directed by Nate Camponi, the video for ‘Love Is All You Love’ is the final part of a trilogy, following the powerful videos for previous singles ‘We’re Alive’ and ‘Cool Your Battles’.
Say Camponi. “We finally reached the finale of this crazy trilogy! In Love Is All You Love, the characters we saw in the previous two videos begin to turn on each other, transfixed by the mysterious glowing rock that connects them all. Fuelled by jealousy and envy, they come full circle and bring us right back to the riot we saw at the beginning of Cool Your Battles. The video basically completes the idea that history repeats itself, everything we create we tend to destroy. We’re all power hungry and we’ll do anything to get it.”
“It’s been fantastic working with Emma and Russell – I’ve loved every minute of it. We couldn’t have done it without this amazing cast of characters who all worked so hard shooting all three videos over two very long days in a freezing studio. Massive thanks to everyone involved!”
The new album breaks bold new ground for Band of Skulls: a tough rock’n’roll record with gleaming pop hooks; an album where melancholy and euphoria combine in equal measure. ‘Love Is All You Love’ doesn’t skimp on the force of overdriven guitars, but combines the sounds of a live band with electronic programming and the pop genius of producer Richard X (M.I.A., Goldfrapp, Sugababes, Pet Shop Boys) to create a record that sounds like a band reborn.
‘Love Is All You Love’ was recorded in London’s Miloco Studios, The Smoakstack studio in Nashville, and in the Southampton studio of Band Of Skulls founder members’ Russell Marsden (guitar, vocals) and Emma Richardson (bass, vocals). Following the amicable departure of drummer Matt Hayward, Russell and Emma started the writing process for the record in 2017 and quickly accumulated a host of new songs.
Work switched to The Toyshop studio at Miloco to collaborate with Richard X, who encouraged Band Of Skulls new spirit of experimentation. Once the writing was complete the band decamped to Nashville to record the live element of the record with Eagles Of Death Metal’s Julian Dorio on drums.
Lyrically, ‘Love Is All You Love’ is affected by our troubled times. “It influences you whether you like it or not,” Richardson says. “You get affected by the fear of it all and that sense of powerlessness. But there was a concerted effort not to make a depressing record about it all, because I don’t think anyone wants to hear a dark, depressing record about these times. We wanted to have that feeling of euphoria in song, because we weren’t getting it anywhere.”
Since 2009, Band Of Skulls have released four acclaimed studio albums and have built a reputation as a phenomenal live act, both at home and in the US, where they have performed on the Late Show With David Letterman, Late Night with Seth Meyers, and Last Call with Carson Daly. They have toured with luminaries like Muse, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Queens Of The Stone Age and Black Keys among others, as well as touring the globe as a headline act.
Band Of Skulls will support the album release with a series of special shows throughout release week, kicking off with a hometown show at Southampton Central Hall on April 11 and including Islington Assembly Hall in London on April 16.
RELEASE WEEK TOUR, APRIL 2019
THURS 11 CENTRAL HALL, SOUTHAMPTON
FRI 12 ST.GEORGES CHURCH, BRIGHTON
SUN 14 TRAMSHED, CARDIFF
MON 15 KOMEDIA, BATH
TUES 16 ISLINGTON ASSEMBLY HALL, LONDON
WED 17 STOLLER HALL, MANCHESTER
THURS 18 ST LUKES CHURCH, GLASGOW