Crazy Arm Release First New Music In Seven Years

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Crazy Arm have released their first new music in seven years, along with information about their long awaited upcoming album.

The bands new album is called ‘Dark Hands, Thunderbolts’ and is set to release on the 29th January 2021 via Xtra Mile Recordings. ‘Brave Starts Here’ gives us our first taste of the new album, which you can check out here:

Talking about why the band had such a long absence, frontman Darren Johns explains “Our last record, ‘The Southern Wild’, was released in 2013. A year later we almost called it a day but Jon (Dailey – guitar) said we should record one more album. Behold! We demoed these songs in the summer of 2016 with our good friend, Tim Langsford, on drums, and started recording properly that winter with Tim and regular live drummer, Matt Colwell, on board. We finished recording in the summer of 2020, although we only spent three weeks actually working on the album. Suffice to say, this has been a very protracted affair.”

“Over the four years, the songs effectively grew up, hit puberty, left home and came back with crow’s feet and new pronouns. In the meantime, Jon got married, had a baby, and became a professional tattooist; Matt upped sticks again and settled in sunny Bournemouth; Luke (Yates – fiddle) got married and moved to Leeds; our good friend, Dan James, became our new bassist; Samantha Spake joined as second violinist; the ace Tia Kalmaru and Becky Saxton started singing with us; I fulfilled my dream of touring the USA, started playing solo as Warshy (as in, shy of war), and bid a final farewell to my mum and cat; and the world got disproportionately more unstable.”

Adding “We may be 15 years old now (and more of a fluid collective than a band), and the twin troughs of Covid and Brexit may have scuppered all our best laid tour plans, but we’re not done yet! We hope ‘Dark Hands, Thunderbolts’ makes this current colossal shitshow a little easier to bear. Here’s to the unwritten future.”

Here’s The tracklisting for ‘Dark Hands, Thunderbolts’:

01 Montenegro
02 Blessed & Cursed
03 Brave Starts Here
04 Fear Up
05 interlude: Dearborn
06 The Golden Hind
07 Loose Lips
08 Mow The Sward
09 Trail Of Meds
10 interlude: Paradiso
11 Epicurean Firestorm
12 Howl Of The Heart
13 Demonised
14 Health Is In You!

‘Dark Hands, Thunderbolts’ will be available on digital, CD, and streaming from the 29th January 2021. The new album will also be available on Black or White vinyl with embossed sleeve on 19th March 2021. You can pre-order the CD, Vinyl, or digital download from here.