DIY punk ‘supergroup’ Knife Club are set to return with their second studio album, Our Club, Our Rules.
The new album, which will be released on TNSRecords on 7 April, is the follow-up to their 2020 debut We Are Knife Club (reviewed here).
The band features members of Nosebleed, Haest, Casual Nausea, Revenge Of The Psychotronic Man and Matilda’s Scoundrels, and are based in Manchester, Leeds, Hastings and Ipswich.
One of the DIY punk scene’s best-kept secrets, they spent months building up hype, hiding their identities and pushing the #whoareknifeclub? hashtag, and then Covid-19 hit and all their gigs got cancelled.
After releasing a lockdown acoustic 7in and a dancey remix album Club Classics (reviewed here), they finally got to play live last year, appearing at Manchester Punk Festival and Rebellion, among others.
Now they’re back with 11 tracks of catchy punk, with more personal lyrical themes, such as mental health, depression, addiction and female visibility in society.
They’ve also undergone a line-up change, with Mark Tanner joining full-time on bass guitar and Kim Morey joining on keytar and vocals, with keys driving the melodies on several of their new songs.
Singer Andy said: “The addition of the keys has really pushed the melodies and made the tunes pretty catchy, even though the lyrics are fairly dark at times.
“Getting to know everyone better has been incredible. Basically having to go on holiday for the weekend for a practice is actually pretty mint.”
The album, which is available on pink and baby blue vinyl, is available to pre-order HERE.
TNS is joining forces with several other labels around Europe, namely Kink (Germany), DIY Kolo (Poland), 5FeetUnder (Denmark), No Time (US), Geenger (Croatia), Deadlamb (Ireland) and Aktiver Ausstand in Plastic (Germany). Non-UK orders should use their ‘local’ label, via the links HERE.
The first 50 people to buy a copy from TNSrecords will receive an exclusive ‘zine, which includes art for each individual song, designed by the members of the band.
