Bristolian quartet PHOXJAW have released a video for their brand new single ‘Triple AAA’. The track is the second taste of their forthcoming debut album Royal Swan, due for release on 3rd July 2020 via Hassle Records.
“Triple AAA is a fast-paced, face punching, punk rock stonker all tied up in a Phoxjaw rope,” explains vocalist/bassist Danny Garland.“It’s a song about breaking free from the shackles of insanity and thinking about the world around yourself. Reach for the sun…”
The original filming plans for ‘Triple AAA’ were put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic, so the band took it into their own hands to shoot the footage from their homes. In true PHOXJAW fashion, they came up with a series of weird and wonderful scenarios, as guitarist Josh Gallop explains:
“We were left in a sticky situation when lockdown was announced. It was time to shoot a music video for our next single, however, unable to meet up in the same place or leave our homes, we decided in true Phoxjaw fashion to create something obscure from our own homes, using self-shot footage and throwing around the weirdest scenarios we could muster we came up with the music video to ‘Triple AAA’. Edited by Danny and finalised by Kieran, in our usual fashion we didn’t let a setback prevent us from creating something uniquely strange.”
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PHOXJAW have also announced their Royal Swan album release show, in partnership with Signature Brew. Due to the current lockdown the date for the event is to be confirmed, but tickets are on sale now and include a free beer. Those who purchase tickets and cannot make the date will be given a full refund.
Tickets are on sale here: http://signaturebrew.co.uk/phoxjaw
Born from a cabin-fevered recording experience at Devil’s Bridge in Wales, Royal Swan harks back to a fantastical medieval England. Without being overtly political, Royal Swan also details the tension inherent in modern day Great Britain – the sense of isolation and resentment the United Kingdom has fostered versus trying to retain a sense of pride in one’s own country. Listen out especially for the title-track and opening track for this.To this end, and in classic PHOXJAW style, Royal Swan enlists a range of local musicians and sound-experiences, adding to the band’s core unique sound. Devil’s Bridge Cottage leaves its mark on the record, fostering PHOXJAW’s claustrophobic recording experience and physically shaping the sound, with each band member recording in separate rooms (and guitars in an airing cupboard).
Self-produced, with drums recorded by Lewis Johns, Royal Swan marks PHOXJAW’s step into the limelight following two highly respected EPs (2018’s Goodbye Dinosaur… and 2019’s A Playground For Sad Adults). A rare group who combine humour, quirk, intrigue, a huge range of influences, and power, PHOXJAW are a band who’ll never stop having things to say.
Having toured with Black Peaks, Pagan, Zakk Sabbath’s cruise, Loathe and plenty more already, PHOXJAW have begun making waves in the UK underground rock scene. Solid support from Kerrang!, Metal Hammer, Dan P Carter’s BBC R1 Rock Show, Total Guitar Magazine and more has earmarked this band as ones to watch, and rightly so.