Catchy, caustic, satirical and fun post-punk by the Manchester-based band fronted by charismatic singer Jacob Peck and with the latest of so-called “fenland gothic” preoccupation, and stylistic echoes of Sports Team and Deadletter. The band have also extensively toured with the duo Gans. Peck, who wrote the lyrics explains: “The song began as a knowingly daft pastiche of noughties indie built on a silly bass line, ironic guitars, and exaggerated Americanisms before our warped, post-punk-pop sensibilities kicked in. Scattered all over that is the thematic basis for the lyrics, expressing our frustrations with middle-class comforts, over-analysis without action, nimbyism, intellectual cowardice as a stand-in for material change, and all-too-easy deference to business and power.
“The vast, desolate expanse of the fens, formed through profit-driven intervention, mirrors the cultural landscape we exist in, which struggles to thrive and breathe under cuts and times of national hardship. We’re looking to investigate the idea of the English nation and its role in mutual assistance and what we choose to celebrate as ‘England’.”
Hungry are completed by drummer Stan Rankin, guitarist Kit Thomas and bassist Jas Malig, who all moved as an existing band from Cambridge to Manchester and found new roots in a basement student party scene. To explore and enjoy more by Hungry, including previous single Sick Of It, see also the other embedded links below. Out on HUNGRY SOUNDS.
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