Black Honey have shared a new single ‘Dead’, taken from their upcoming new album ‘Soak’. Find all the details below.
The band’s fourth album is set to be released on August 15 (pre-save here), and has already been previewed by last month’s nihilistic, creepy pop track ‘Psycho’.
Now, they’ve shared another taste of the record with ‘Dead’, a shoegaze, dream pop-inflicted anthem rich in scuzzy guitars and pensive lyricism.
Exploring the theme of dissociation, it sees vocalist Izzy B. Phillips drawl on the chorus: “You can’t kill me now cause I’m already dead/You can’t hear the crowd, that scream in my head/You can’t kill me now cause I’m already dead for you.” Check out the lyric video below.
Per a press release, the record draws on inspiration from Stanley Kubrick, and follows a theme of the band referencing iconic directors in their work, such as Quentin Tarantino, who inspired ‘Black Honey, Written & Directed’ and Wes Anderson for ‘Fistful of Peaches’.
Speaking on the album, Phillips shares: “’Soak’ is me processing a decade of touring and creating music and art as an addict. It’s me picking at the layers of messy, romantic, confusing, woozy, beautiful and fucked up things. Who I thought I was, who I was supposed to be and who looks back at me now are all so different but I’m kind of here for it.”
Black Honey’s ‘Soak’ tracklist is:
1 – ‘Insulin’
2 – ‘Dead’
3 – ‘Psycho’
4 – ‘Carroll Avenue’
5 – ‘Soak’
6 – ‘Sad Sun’
7 – ‘Shallow’
8 – ‘Drag’
9 – ‘Vampire In The Kitchen’
10 – ‘Slow Dance’
11 – ‘To The Grave’
12 – ‘Medication’
‘Dead’ and last month’s ‘Psycho’ mark the band’s first new material since they took a year-long break following the release of their 2023 album ‘A Fistful of Peaches’ and the follow-up single ‘Lemonade’.
NME caught them live in Kingston in 2021 and gave the show a glowing four-star review, describing the gig as “loud and raucous, and despite all the safety precautions, it feels dangerous.”
It went on to say: “Black Honey look like a band unleashed. Philips fights back tears before the ferocious close of ‘Run For Cover’ and, true to form, her microphone breaks in the middle of the song. Clearly expecting the worst, she doesn’t skip a beat and finds a spare. Turns out you really can’t keep a great band down.”
