Manchester DIY punks Aerial Salad have released a second tantalising glimpse of their much-anticipated fourth album Ideal World.
Survive If I Let Ye follows Everybody Needs Somebody, which was shared in June, as the second single from the album which is out on 6 November via Venn Records.
The song is a scathing criticism of a specific character type seen across the UK. It sneers at the “live, laugh, love” Peaky Blinders-loving, plush grey velvet-owning, steroid-infused right-wing knuckleheads who pollute our air.
“The UK is facing a growing disparity among its people,” says vocalist and guitarist Jamie Munro. “Driven by looksmaxxing, right-wing manosphere content, this new baseline ‘NPC’ male now roams our streets, filled with misguided anger and fuelled by online fake news.
“The story of the song draws on an actual conversation that took place around a kitchen table at 5am, where the main character describes how much they want someone to break into their house just so they can beat the life out of them and expel this built-up rage. The song is told from the perspective of the storyteller.”
Aerial Salad released their blistering debut album Roach in 2017 on Wonk Unit frontman Alex Johnson’s Plasterer Records, and it also put out the follow-up, Dirt Mall (reviewed here) – just as the pandemic hit.
They switched to Venn Records, run by Lags Bernard of Gallows, for 2024’s R.O.I. (reviewed here), which saw them explore their home city’s indie legacy, and they returned to their original sound for last year’s Roi De L’Herbe EP (reviewed here).
Aerial Salad are Jamie Munro (vocals/guitar), Mike ‘Wimbo’ Wimbleton (vocals/bass) and Jake Marshall (drums), and you can pre-order their forthcoming album Ideal World HERE.
