The year ahead is shaping up to be a great one for punk. This past Friday (February 17) the world was served notice via a one-two punch felt from Southern California to south of London, first from Grade 2’s gritty new album and then FIDLAR christening their own New Year with a lively new single and details on their first new record in four years.
The FIDLAR single in question is called “Centipede,” a quiet-to-loud Pixies-esque indie rock rager that’s billed as “a song about the minutiae of relationships that crawls under your skin the longer you spend with someone.” There’s a beautiful chaos at play here that explodes out of the speakers.
“Centipede” also arrives with a trippy video directed by Ryan Baxley and produced by Alice Baxley, as well as details on That’s Life, the new FIDLAR record that lands March 17. That’s Life, the follow-up to 2019’s ALMOST FREE, is composed of six songs total, including a string of three singles released over the course of 2022.
Test the limits of your volume knob and crawl along the noise floor with “Centipede” in both video and streaming form below.
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