Energetic yet angst-ridden Norwegian band Sløtface have announced an array of exciting news for fans including the arrival of their third album ‘Film Buff’, a stirring new single ‘Ladies Of The Fight’ and upcoming dates for a tour of the UK and Ireland.
The band formed on 2012 and were previously known as Slutface (however the band’s new name Sløtface, is still pronounced the same). Their newest album will be released on the 27th of September and is written with ‘short story approach’ according to front woman Hayley Shea. The record will feature 11 new tracks including ‘Final Gørl’ which debuted on March 15th and ‘Tired Old Dog’ which came out in April which you can check out below.
Below you can see the full track list for ‘Film Buff.
1. ‘I Used To Be A Real Piece Of Shit’
2. ‘Leading Man’
3. ‘Final Gørl’
4. ‘Ladies Of The Fight’
5. ‘Lift Heavy’
6. ‘I Confess, I Guess’
7. ‘Charlie Calls’
8. ‘Tired Old Dog’
9. ‘The Great Escape’
10. ‘Quiet On Set’
11. ‘Impression Of A Car Crash’
As for the bands newest single ‘Ladies Of The Fight’, it is the third single released ahead of the upcoming album and it hit streaming sites last Friday on June the 7th. The gritty punk track is reminiscent of the sound of Avril Lavigne’s 2000s alternative grunge homogenised with the more hyper-pop sounding lyricism being popularised recently. The track was inspired by the interesting concept of the real estate agents from popular reality series ‘Selling Sunset’ starting a fight club. You can take a look at the singles artwork below as well as sone BTS footage from the band’s creative process which they posted to their Instagram on Friday.
According to an article from NME, Shea noted in a press release that the song was written ‘during a period when I [Shea] was watching a lot of ‘Selling Sunset’ on Netflix, and with these characters in mind, along with other TV and film references, ‘Ladies Of The Fight’ came to be.” Shea describes the song as ‘so powerful, like a battle call to me, so I wanted to write lyrics that matched it but still were silly and fun. The goal is for the song to make you feel like you can achieve anything and take control of any situation. ‘Ladies Of The Fight’ is tailor-made for summer festival mosh pits. I can’t wait to play it live!”
And it won’t be too long before Shea gets her wish as the band will be heading to the UK this July where they will play shows in Exeter, Portsmouth, Gilford and Exeter. The group will then be returning to this part of the world in the third week of September and will perform into October, bringing their new album to the stage with dates in Dublin, Belfast, Glasgow, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham and London amongst others. You can see the full list of UK and Ireland dates below as well as purchase tickets here.
