Primitive Ignorant on his first new tracks for four years + new album set for Feb 2025 release
The former Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster man chats to Juno Daily
Primitive Ignorant, the latest project of former Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster and Piano Wire man Sym Gharial, will release their second album next year.
Sym has been talking to Juno Daily excluisvely about the first new tracks from the project since his acclaimed Sikh Punk debut four years ago, which featured guest appearances from The Clash’s Mick Jones and hotly tipped electro punk LE JUNK among others.
Psychic Cinema is set for release on February 21, but two tracks, both of which indicate the LP’s more electronic direction, have been shered along with the annoucnement.
Of ‘A Day With You’, set to open the album, Sym said: “It’s as much about loss as it is about meeting that person who understands your dreams and failures, your happiness and your misery. The energy in the song brings me to tears cos sometimes its hard having someone show you who you really are.”
The second track is a tune dedicated to iconic rock ‘n’ roller Iggy Pop, named ‘Power (Song For Iggy)’. The track blends Sym’s trademark jagged guitar sound with a more industrial, Nine Inch Nails-esque backing and, as with both tracks, a memorable vocal from Gharial himself.
“When you’ve had the darkest of pasts,” he told us. “it’s important to use that currency and turn it into a formidable weapon. There’s no other way. Obviously I’ve always been inspired by Iggy Pop and particularly his perseverance, so the song inadvertently became a tribute to him. There’s a film sequence there, as with all the songs on the album, and a character clawing his way back from the abyss to tell the world what he’s seen.”