New Music 2023

COMFORT - "REAL WOMAN"

Glaswegian duo Comfort (siblings Natalie and Sean McGhee) will release new album What’s Bad Enough on May 5 via Fat Cat. They made it with producer Tony Doogan (Mogwai, Belle & Sebastian, Teenage Fanclub) at Castle of Doom studios in Glasgow and the first single is transgender anthem that takes on JK Rowling and others. “As I have gotten older and learnt to love myself, transphobic views have less power over me," says the duo's Natalie. "I have begun to find them laughable in their ignorance. I want this song to capture the elation you feel when you rise above the people who hate you, when you leave them to writhe in the mire of their own short-sightedness. Transgender people have always been here, and we always will be, we are inevitable, resisting us does nothing but hold everyone back. It can be easy to create art which is bleak when you are insistently alienated, but I wanted this song to be playful and fun, because I am all these things, despite everything.” The video confronts JK Rowling, too.


 
Love this band and this track is excellent. Formerly Andrew Jackson Jihad now just AJJ. AJJ have announced a new album, Disposable Everything, is coming on May 26 via Hopeless Records............................this is now best track of day. The video is great too. This is what the band say about it.

"This video came together really naturally. My oldest friend is a master puppeteer by the name of Gwendolyn Bonar. We went to kindergarten together. I reached out to her at the beginning of December to gauge her interest in working with us on a video, to which she replied "Yeah, let's get weird." So I called Joe Stakun, director of AJJ's classic video 'Goodbye Oh Goodbye' and in less than a month we were shooting the video at the Great Arizona Puppet Theater.

The puppets used in the film are all made of trash and found materials, and coincidentally, so were the lenses that (director of photography) Eric Bader used in the shoot. Turns out his pandemic project was making camera lenses from broken camera equipment, found glass, and pipe fittings. As soon as he heard the song he knew what he had been building them for."

AJJ - Disposable Everything

 
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