New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Norwich-based post-hardcore trio OTHER HALF are pleased to reveal the video for their new single 'Tiny Head' which is out now on all good DSPs.
The track is the latest to be taken from their debut album, Big Twenty, set for release on 21st August 2020 via Venn Records (Gallows, WACO, Marmozets & more).
The record is available to preorder now and comes with an exclusive A5 lyrics zine designed by the band: https://otherhalf.bandcamp.com/
Directed and filmed by bassist
Sophie Porter, the video sees the band enjoying a socially-distanced ice cream together during the blazing heat of lockdown, with the resultant melting mess serving as an apt metaphor for the murky story of the song itself.
Commenting on the theme of the single, vocalist Cal Hudson explains: "'Tiny Head' is a sad little pop song about being groomed, used and cut loose without ever really knowing about it. It finds a new set of particularly sh*tty narrators pulling strings, extracting the last juicy bits from an already pretty spent group of people, providing some validation through humiliation. I suppose it's a lazy metaphor for our old friend capitalism, getting off on watching us all helplessly squirm around."
"It's the most melodic thing on the record, swapping out some of the bile for something with a little more swagger. I'd like to think it operates somewhere between the gnarled pop of the
Pixies and the boozy swank of Thin Lizzy."
Other Half's forthcoming debut album, Big Twenty, is 14 songs of caustic post-hardcore exploring the unpleasant places people go to—and the nastiness they are capable of—in search of identity, community and belonging.
The recurring characters that inhabit Big Twenty navigate changing social scenes and trends as they near the end of their twenties, teasing themselves with the past and spiralling in an unhealthy cycle of going out and coming down. The album's narrative is semi-fictitious, reimagining first-hand experiences watching friends lose themselves to nostalgia, drugs and depression, whilst simultaneously celebrating the warmth of belonging, wherever it is found.
Lead single 'Trance State' was released last month and picked up radio support from BBC
Radio One Rock Show host
Daniel P Carter, as well as press from Louder Than War, Vive Le Rock, CLASH Magazine, Dead Press!, Bring The Noise, The Punk Site and many more.
Big Twenty is released 21 August 2020 via Venn Records
Other Half online:
https://www.facebook.com/otherhalfuk/
https://www.instagram.com/otherhalfband/
https://otherhalf.bandcamp.com/
Other Half are:
Cal Hudson (guitar, vocals)
Alfie Adams (drums)
Sophie Porter (bass, vocals)
Meeting in 2012 through a love of the UK DIY scene and their time split between previous outfits—including Maths, Ducking Punches and Manbearpig—Cal Hudson (guitar, vocals), Alfie Adams (drums) and
Sophie Porter (bass, vocals) began writing songs together in Adams' basement bedroom.
From the indie rock cynicism of Archers of Loaf and Arab Strap, to the dischord and energy of bands like Hot Snakes and Unwound, the band have spent the past few years weaving their individual influences together and now deal in a confident, unique brand of scathing storytelling and abrasive punk.
The trio have previously released a four-way split on Venn Records with Yarraman, Grieving and Yr Poetry, and have performed at The Fest, Florida, and Pouzza Fest, Montreal. They have toured mainland
Europe and the UK with Dikembe and Ducking Punches and have shared the stage with the likes of Meat Wave, Jamie Lenman, PUP, Pinegrove, Front Bottoms, Part Chimp, The Hotelier, Joe Talbot (IDLES) and Lemuria.
They have had numerous plays on BBC Introducing, and are set to collaborate on a remix of one of their album tracks with Cremation Lily.