British rock and roll needs a kick in the balls.
We spent most of yesterday listening to Bloc Party’s debut record Silent Alarm, which had just turned 10 years old, wondering where all England’s guitars have gone. Coincidentally, Wakefield (not the Massachusetts town) trio the Cribs unveiled their new single, the jangly, flexible “Burning For No One,” and it might be just what Dr. Alex Turner ordered.
Having previously toiled with Johnny Marr and recently haven crossed paths with Dave Grohl, the Cribs are gearing up for a big 2015 with both the March release of new album For All My Sisters and an April performance at Coachella Music & Arts Festival. Their Coachella gig is a make-up from a few years ago, when their appearance was nixed after that Icelandic volcano blasted ash into the sky, causing havoc on travel across the Atlantic.
But it’ll take more than natural disasters to derail the Cribs this time around.
Says the presser: “Having reconvened over the last year in Wakefield and Portland, the band later decamped to New York and Magic Shop studio with legendary producer and The Cars frontman Ric Ocasek (Weezer) to begin recording. A new label, a new perspective, a new challenge — ‘For All My Sisters’ marks the start of the next chapter, in a decade long existence that has seen the band continually evolve and thrill, ever advancing whilst stockpiling an enviable arsenal of songs.”
Listen to the record’s first single below…