Tigercub Shares New Track ‘Funeral’

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Tigercub have shared their new single ‘Funeral’, from their highly-anticipated second album ‘As Blue As Indigo’. The new song follows the band’s previously released singles ‘Beauty’, ‘Beat On My Heart (Like A Bass Drum)’, and ‘Blue Mist In My Head’, The band’s first new material since 2017.

The forthcoming record was written and produced by the band’s own Jamie Stephen Hall over two years and champions introspection drawing on the subjectivity of colour. It was engineered and co-produced by Adrian Bushby (Foo Fighters, Muse), and subsequently mixed by Tom Dalgety (Pixies, Ghost, Royal Blood).

Dramatically different from the previous heavier singles, ‘Funeral’ is an intensely personal song ruminating on the loss of friends and family propelled instead by intimate acoustic guitars and a swooping string accompaniment.

Talking about the themes behind the track, Jamie said “Funeral is a song I wrote to cope with death, firstly to directly cope with my grandmothers passing, but also as an emotional outpouring to the shocking amount of friends I have lost to suicide over the years. I find songwriting incredibly cathartic and therapeutic, it helps me process my emotions and figure out what lies at the core of me. I find it difficult to properly express myself in day to day life, I was always taught as a male that to portray anything other than stoicism was a sign of weakness and that it should be overridden with jovial humour and general toxic bullshit. Nowadays we are all learning how wrong this affectation is, and rightly so.”

Check out ‘Funeral’ here:

‘As Blue As Indigo’ comes out June 18th via Blame Recordings, and can be pre-ordered here. Check out the tracklisting here:

1. As Blue As Indigo
2. Sleepwalker
3. Blue Mist In My Head
4. Stop Beating On My Heart (Like A Bass Drum)
5. Funeral
6. Built To Fail
7. Shame
8. As Long You’re Next To Me
9. Beauty
10. In The Autumn Of My Years

“I never really felt in the past that I could talk about really personal things. I’d always used a mask. It’s quite easy to do that because you’re not exposing yourself in anyway. I’d always subconsciously tried to shy away from talking about myself,” Jamie notes, talking about where the lyrics on the new album came from. “I didn’t want to do that anymore. I wanted this to be about me and process my emotions for the first time. I think that’s made us more genuine and authentic as a band”

Tigercub are set to go out on tour later this year, tickets on sale now, here (Affiliate Link). Tigercub will be playing the following dates:

November
27 – Brighton – CHALK
28 – Guildford, Surrey – The Boiler Room
29 – Tunbridge Wells – The Forum
December
01 – Norwich – The Waterfront
02 – Leeds – Brudenell
03 – Sheffield – The Leadmill
04 – Glasgow – King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut
05 – Newcastle – The Think Tank
06 – Birmingham – Dead Wax
07 – Nottingham – Bodega Social Club
08 – Manchester – The Deaf Institute
10 – Cardiff, Wales – Clwb Ifor Bach
11 – Southampton – The Joiners
12 – Exeter, Devon – The Cavern
14 – London – Lafayette