Welsh pop-punks Neck Deep have introduced their fifth album, which is self-titled and due Jan. 19 through Hopeless Records (preorder). “With a return to roots approach, we made this record ourselves at our warehouse in North Wales, with [bassist] Seb [Barlow] at the helm, and the rest of us over his shoulder, like it was at the start,” vocalist Ben Barlow says.
“This album is the sound of us knowing ourselves and knowing our ability,” he continues. “It’s unapologetically us. We’re professional songwriters now, and we’ve really homed in on what we’re good at — but it’s also about having fun and enjoying writing these tracks. And there are those little sonic signatures in the mix that even I can’t really put my finger on that just make it Neck Deep. It happens when we get in a room together and it clicks — it’s us just doing our thing like we always have.”
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The album contains current single “Take Me With You,” the alien-themed tune that nods not simply at blink-182’s type of pop punk but additionally Tom DeLonge’s extraterrestrial obsessions, their February single “Heartbreak of the Century,” and it additionally contains the just-released “It Won’t Be Like This Forever.” This one’s one other pop-punk sugar rush, and right here’s what Ben says about it:
“It Won’t Be Like This Forever” got here round actually simply and naturally. We wrote the refrain simply by probability whereas engaged on one other tune and it ended up being our favourite tune on the report. We wrote it the primary time we received collectively after covid, down in Wales. I suppose on the time we have been pondering that ‘it won’t be like this endlessly’ (guess we have been proper) however as time has gone on the world has been introduced with a complete slew of different issues and so it’s maintained its relevance. You can view it by means of that lens or you possibly can zoom in and make it extra private, which I ended up doing. Meaning that the powerful occasions don’t at all times final and having somebody that will help you by means of these occasions is a wonderful a part of life and love. It’s a love tune, a hope tune, and a self-improvement tune multi functional!
The tune comes with a video directed by Max Moore, and the band promise that it contains some Easter eggs for longtime followers. Check it out beneath.
Neck Deep tracklist:
1. “Dumbstruck Dumbf**k”
2. “Sort Yourself Out”
3. “This Is All My Fault”
4. “We Need More Bricks”
5. “Heartbreak Of The Century”
6. “Go Outside!”
7. “Take Me With You”
8. “They May Not Mean To (But They Do)”
9. “It Won’t Be Like This Forever”
10. “Moody Weirdo”
Neck Deep tour dates
October 15 – Leeds, United Kingdom – The Key Club
October 16 – Glasgow, United Kingdom – Slay
October 17 – Cardiff, United Kingdom – The Globe
October 18 – Bournemouth, United Kingdom – Old Fire Station Holden Hurst Road
October 19 – Nijmegen, Netherlands – Doornroosje
October 22 – Cologne, Germany – Live Music Hall
October 24 – Berlin, Germany – Columbia Theater
October 25 – Warsaw, Poland – Proxima
October 26 – Prague, Czech Republic – MeetFactory
October 28 – Vienna, Austria – Arena Wien
October 29 – Milan, Italy – Magazzini Generali
October 30 – Grafin bei München, Germany – Technikum
November 1 – Zürich, Switzerland – Plaza
November 2 – Ghent, Belgium – Vooruit
November 3 – Wiesbaden, Germany – Schlachthof
November 5 – Hamburg, Germany – Markthalle
November 6 – Paris, France – La Machine du Moulin Rouge
March 28 – London, UK – Alexandra Palace
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