Sleaford Mods have announced their More UK Grim EP, coming October 20 via Rough Trade, with lead single “Big Pharma.”
Fresh from supporting Blur at Wembley Stadium, the band are getting set for some of their biggest ever UK and Europe dates this autumn with the release of the six track EP.
Recorded at the same time as their acclaimed 2023 album UK GRIM, the freshly released songs continue Andrew Fearn and Jason Williamson’s dance floor dominance.
Lead single ‘Big Pharma’ features the same ‘take no prisoners’ lyrical approach as their most recent album while it casts a doubtful eye down the ‘truther’ wormhole.
Frontman Jason Williamson says:
“‘Big Pharma’ was written in the opening chapters of autumn 2022 when Covid kicked in again. It carries a lot of the normal Sleaford Mods absurdism, but also looks at the ongoing fascination with trying to find truths in information wholly pushed by very questionable people.
“The term ‘Big Pharma’ has been uprooted from its original place, one that rightly threw critique at the pharmaceutical industry as it produced more and more products that would ruin lives on a mass scale. Instead now, Big Pharma is more familiar as a term used by right-wing and industrial groups trying to mask the financial aims of their arguments with some kind of critical thinking panache-type legitimacy. It just feels wrong. It feeds on hopelessness, widespread fear and generations of unfettered misinformation linked to the limited critical perception we as the masses are burdened with.
“There has to be lots of personal responsibility held to account too. Recently Big Pharma has been adopted by the anti-trans movement, so you can see that high-performance bigotry and personal financial interest are never too far away. Much like the next version of the latest smartphone, the features are largely the same.”
Sleaford Mods hit the road this month, kicking off a continent-wide set of European dates before returning to Britain for some of their biggest gigs yet, including a night at London’s Alexandra Palace on December 2.
Check out “Big Pharma” below and pre-order/save the More UK Grim EP here.
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