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Mumbles Announce Debut Album In The Pocket Of Big Sad to be Released 29th March 2024 via Divine Schism. Preored the Album HERE

Manchester experimental power trio Mumbles are delighted to announce that their cerebral and hugely exciting debut album, In The Pocket Of Big Sad, will be released on 29th March 2024 via Divine Schism. Produced by the band and mastered by Deerhoof’s Greg Saunier, In the Pocket of Big Sad is without a doubt the lushest, most scintillating, mid-frequency-heavy bedroom epic you’ll ever hear. The album will be released on vinyl and tape, and will be available to stream and download on all good digital service providers.

 Following on from previously-released album tracks ‘JD Sports’ and ‘How Do Happy’, expansive and sprawling new single ‘Violence & Stupidity’ was released on 1st February 2024 and gives the perfect taste of their energetically-rich, layered, skittish, genre-melded music.

The final track penned for the album, ‘Violence & Stupidity’ is all about change—how all-consuming the structures and systems we live in are, and how impossible to escape they can feel. Toxic relationships, extractive late-stage capitalism, chronic health problems. “They’re all pretty overwhelming!” says vocalist Jacob Nicholas.

Taking influence from American anthropologist David Graeber’s latest book ‘The Dawn of Everything’, the track’s title is a nod to another of his books, ‘The Utopia of Rules’, and there are also references to Ursula K Le Guin (another great writer on hope, revolution, and internal/external transformation) and a badly translated Finnish weather report.

Commenting on the single, Nicholas continues: “If there’s one thing my life while making this record has taught me, it’s that better things come with time, hard work, and community. It isn’t easy, and it isn’t linear, but it all comes in time. I am (mostly) a functioning human being now, and I am surrounded by incredible people.” 

“Musically, this one was written in part out of spite after I was told we just sound like ‘Bombay Bicycle Club with fuzz pedals’, by writing a song that was meant to actually sound like them (with some obligatory janky breakdowns). Annoyingly, it came out brilliantly. Other reference points were Knot, Horse Champion and Girlpool.” 

Mumbles have been gaining a strong reputation for the 400mph chaos of their live shows, with dates supporting Deerhoof, Melt Banana, and Horse Lords. Their live performance throws their joyous, desperate, beautiful and chaotic music into a maelstrom of energy, with something for anyone who enjoys emo, noise rock, folk, ambient and/or free jazz.

Imagine an unhinged emo Deerhoof fronted by James Acaster, if Bill Orcuttinexplicably teamed up with Porridge Radio, or some insufferable collaboration between Sea Power and Xiu Xiu—all open-tuned guitars, major keys and bursts of noise—but also like none of those things, as Mumbles are ultimately entirely their own beast. Debut album In The Pocket Of Big Sad is released 29th March 2024 via Divine Schism.