Indie rock band The Cribs have shared their latest single ‘Swinging At Shadows’. The track will be the first of a new series of monthly songs titled ‘Sonic Blew Singles Club’, which will run until the end of the year.
The ‘Swinging At Shadows’ 7″, will also feature the B-side ‘Taken To Tualatin’ and is set for release physically on September 24. You can access more information about The Cribs ‘Sonic Blew Singles Club’ by heading here.
The songs, which were recorded by the Wakefield trio at Dave Grohl‘s Studio 606 in LA, will feature on the A-side of the 7″s. Then their home recordings which were recorded during lockdown will make up the B-sides.
Those who subscribe to The Cribs’ new singles club will also receive four two-track 7″ vinyl records between September and December, which will feature previously unheard songs from the sessions of their last album ‘Night Network’.
Bassist Gary Jarman explained the band’s latest venture in a statement “Basically, after three years away from the road we just ended up with SO many songs built up in the vaults that we wanted to try doing something different and interesting with them!”
“We had a bunch of extra tracks from the ‘Night Network’ sessions which we finished and mixed over lockdown… and then the extra downtime led to us coming up with several new songs also. Of course we could have just put them all to one side and held them back for a new album or whatever, but that doesn’t seem like much fun…”
Jarman continued “Back in the day, we were always a band that were known for our B-sides – a concept that is pretty much irrelevant nowadays… we know that the fans miss this, so setting up the ‘Sonic Blew Singles Club’ seemed like the ideal solution – we get to clear the vaults, and people get a guaranteed new single plus B-side every month.”
Additionally The Cribs are also set to play a small number of UK shows in the coming weeks which includes a date at The Piece Hall in Halifax. Following this they will then embark on a longer UK tour in March 2022.
