Alternative rock band Pulled Apart By Horses have released their first single “First World Problems” from their as-yet-untitled fifth album due out in spring 2022. The new track is the first new material the Leeds-based band have released since their 2019 single “Is This Thing On?” while their new album will be their first full-length since 2017’s The Haze.
Pulled Apart By Horses also released a music video to accompany their latest release. The video is shot in black and white and shows the band playing for a crowd in a relatively small venue. Later on, lead singer Tom Hudson then takes off his shirt and can be seen dancing and crowd surfing with the audience. You can view their music video below.
The track has a rawness and urgency, drawing inspiration from acts such as The Stooges, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie and The Cramps. In this latest release, we find frontman Tom Hudson ditching his guitar to focus solely on vocals.
Speaking about the ’70s-inspired garage rock track, vocalist Tom Hudson stated: “(It’s) a voiced frustration towards our groomed, individualist society, where the real world and our online world is full of constant venting of minor/trivial annoyances as if they are the centre of the universe when really there are more pressing matters out there and a far bigger picture.”
He then went on to say “Our musical tastes change monthly, never mind over the course of the years, so we are never going to be the kind of band who’d do the same album every time,” said Hudson, about the shift from ‘The Haze’ to this new record, which takes influence from 70’s garage rock. We’ve always been that band that are ‘too heavy for the indie kids, and too indie for the heavy kids’ in industry terms, but it’s quite cool that people don’t really know where to put us, because it means no-one can easily slap a genre name upon us,” He then finished with the words “Now we have the freedom to just be who we are.”
The band also celebrated the release by sending out some cassette copies of the song to fans. Pulled Apart By Horses will release their fifth album next spring on indie label Alcopop! Records.
Can’t quite believe we’re saying this, but f**king PULLED APART BY HORSES are signing to Alcopop! for their new album, due out next year. First cut ‘First World Problems’ is out ~RIGHT now – and it’s glorious. Welcome @pabh <3 https://t.co/QCRzPnRHsB WOOOHOOO pic.twitter.com/TYVePw0Qpt
— Alcopop! Records (@ilovealcopop) October 5, 2021
When talking about recording the LP, Hudson said: “The fat was trimmed! We spent months playing the songs for the new album in our practice space and on a small ‘up close and personal’ UK tour to set them in stone. We headed to the Nave studio in Leeds off the back of that tour and captured the tracks live, tour tight and locked in!”
