DEAD FREIGHTS – “SHOT GIRL SUMMER”
A SPILL EXCLUSIVE MUSIC PREMIERE
Noisy indie-rock outfit Dead Freights are pleased to announce their debut EP The Fury Tape alongside new single ‘Shot Girl Summer’ out this spring through Gary Powell’s (The Libertines) 25 Hour Convenience Store Records.
Following on from recent singles, “How Much To Call My Daddy” and “Call Me On The Wildside” “Shot Girl Summer” delivers three minutes of pure, unadulterated hi-octane rock and roll in true DIY fashion. It is an adrenaline fuelled rush to the cerebral cortex and the band’s live shows are a testament to that, having toured the UK in 2022 with The Libertines, followed by a series of successive sold out London shows.
The band say: “It’s the riff that Graham Coxon never wrote. When we recorded this we didn’t have long to write the lyrics. We heard about the Shot Girl Summer phenomenon on the radio that morning and thought “Right. Sex, dead queens, and rotten meat, let’s start with that”.
Gary Powell adds: “The Dead Freights are a unique beast, in that they have taken all of the ‘best bits’ that influence them musically and otherworld creatively, to produce a body of work that encapsulates whom they are as individuals and as a band. It is an absolute pleasure to not only sign them to my label 25 Hour Convenience Store because of the their creative brilliance but also to produce them – and there was no better backdrop for this than our own Albion Room Studios.”
Dead Freights create anthems for the generation Z of misfits, punks and goths, driving the reemergence of guitar music in what finally constitutes a genuine global revival. Their music is of beauty and violence, sonically and lyrically, that’s brought the likes of Steve Lamacq to their first east London headline in the spit and sawdust Road Trip bar, to the Future Sounds of Jack Saunders, through the old fashioned romance of word of mouth.Their aim is to unite every member of the crowd in singing every word at future Dead Freights shows, no matter how different their identity and story, because that’s the point in what’s happening with this scene, and Dead Freights could be its next biggest protagonist.
Dead Freights hope to take you on a journey of discovery that will eventual lead you to their debut EP launch in March 2024.
Dead Freights
The Fury Tape
(25 Hour Convenience Store)
Release Date: March 22, 2024
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