Psychedelic Porn Crumpets Return with new single ‘Lava Lamp Pisco’ and UK/EU tour
Track is first new material since SHYGA! The Sunlight Mound album
Australian psych rock band Psychedelic Porn Crumpets have returned with a new single, ‘Lava Lamp Pisco’, and announced an extensive UK and Europe 2022 headline tour.
The new track follows their fourth studio album SHYGA! The Sunlight Mound, which was released earlier this year.
‘Lava Lamp Pisco’ is the first single from the band’s new album, which is due to be released next year. The track comes with an animated video by Bristol-based animator artist Gina Tratt.
Of the new single, frontman Jack McEwan said, “After Shyga! I wanted to write something a bit heavier, get back to the Sabbath roots and chug on a riff for yonks till it hums like a Novocaine mantra. I wanted it to feel like it was constantly progressing, getting more chaotic with drones, swirling between dissonant layers and get the body jangling with a Tyson hook.”
“The lyrics weren’t intentionally meant to be dark, I’ve always liked to keep our music upbeat and positive but some days it felt like everything was blurring into one, waiting for life to resume into some sense of normality. But what is normal? Change is good, variety is the spice of life and from these weird times I can truly say I’ve never been happier. So the Pisco of life continues, building with bulldozers, creating from rubble, chewing on bricks with a toothless optimism. It’s nice to feel rounded.
Of the video, McEwan added: “As soon as we saw Gina’s work we all really wanted to collaborate and work together on a project. The idea was to follow the drone aspect of the track, build a playful landscape for midnight YouTube trippers to gobble up while outlining the expendable nature of our mundane working routines, slice that up with some greedy corporate overlord whose main objective is to deplete the world of all resources for capitalistic gains and voila! You’ve got a Lava Lamp Pisco. Old mate Bezzy was the inspiration. Gina’s an absolute hero! We love what she’s created and hope that everyone enjoys our dark little episode.”
The band have also announced their 2022 UK and Europe headline tour dates, bringing their live show back to Britain for the first time since 2019. The tour will see the band take in 26 dates across the continent, starting in Bristol in early March and culminating at London’s Electric Brixton on April 13.
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets 2022 tour dates
March
Thursday 10th – Thekla, Bristol
Friday 11th – Concorde 2, Brighton
Saturday 12th – Arts Centre, Norwich
Monday 14th – O2 Institute, Birmingham
Tuesday 15th – Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
Thursday 17th – Think Tank, Newcastle
Friday 18th – King Tuts, Glasgow
19th March – Band On The Wall, Manchester
Sunday 20th – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
Tuesday 22nd – Junction, Cambridge
Wednesday 23rd – The Forum, Tunbridge Wells
Friday 25th – Doornroosje, Nijmegen
Saturday 26th – Vera, Groningen
Sunday 27th – Tivoli, Utrecht
Tuesday 29th – Molotov, Hamburg
Wednesday 30th – Täubchenthal, Leipzig
April
Friday 1st – Hole 44, Berlin
Saturday 2nd – Meetfactory, Prague
Sunday 3rd – Grelle Forelle, Vienna
Tuesday 5th – Santeria Toscana, Milan
Wednesday 6th – Bogen F, Zurich
Friday 8th – La Maroquinerie, Paris
9th April – De Muziek, Maastricht
Sunday 10th – Trix Club, Antwerp
Tuesday 12th – The Loft, Southampton
Wednesday 13th – Electric Brixton, London