Alternative rockers Tubelord return to the music scene with their second full-length record, ‘Romance’, set for release on October 10th.
After a year that has seen the Kingston-based band expand to a quartet, take on an extensive European tour and cram in a summer of festivals, this autumn will add the release of the band’s second full-length record, ‘Romance’, a prospect that sees Tubelord take on both a renewed sound and a complex new approach to lyrical content and the concept of meaning.
As vocalist Joseph Prendergast explains, “The medium of song, at first, was a vehicle for my personal immediate emotion. A way to represent the tangible relationships I had felt with others, capturing moments worth remembering and not wanting these fragments to be lost and forgotten.
“Yet at the same time, what worth is my depiction of events over another person’s? Questioning the purpose of my own writing, 'I' decided to disappear instead of clarifying my very being in the form of song. However, ‘I’ am content with appearing as a reader as opposed to being a writer.
“‘I’ cannot claim to be a writer, so ‘I’ therefore chose to attempt to stay true to my belief of existing as a reader and drew from the limited pool of words found in the tidy boxes of poetry. Poetry written by the opposite sex. Not a sausage in sight.
“Listen to the songs and 'I' am not there, the songs are not me, they belong to no one, in the same way words cannot belong to an individual, they are multitudinous device used to portray context.”
The tracklisting for the album can be seen below – ‘My First Castle’ will be the lead single from the album. You can see the video for that track embedded below, as well as the dates for Tubelord’s up and coming live shows.
1. Over In Brooklyn
2. Never Washboard
3. 4T3
4. Charms
5. Here Is Nothing
6. Go Old
7. My First Castle
8. Ignatz
9. Waterworld
10. In Greenland
11. Tidy Diggs
Wed September 21st 2011 - THE RAINBOW, BIRMINGHAM
Thu September 22nd 2011 - The Croft, Bristol
Mon October 17th 2011 - Upstairs @ The Garage, London
Fri October 21st 2011 - The Haunt, Brighton
Sun September 18th 2011 - Captains Rest, Glasgow
Mon September 19th 2011 - Dexters Bar, Dundee
Tue September 20th 2011 - Sneaky Pete's, Edinburgh
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