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Stockholm post-punk band V**gra Boys (**= “ia” because spam FILTERS) are
announcing a new album _Cave World _due out July 8th via YEAR0001.
Produced by past collaborators Pelle Gunnerfeldt (The Hives, The Knife,
etc.) and DJ Haydn, the announcement of their third album coincides with
the release of the first single “Ain’t No Thief” and its
accompanying video. The video, directed by SNASK, finds singer Sebastian
Murphy, the anti-hero at the center of all V**gra Boy’s videos,
stepping into the role of an Evangelical preacher reaching deep into the
pockets of his congregation. Inspired by current events, the album aims
to tear through the insanity and confusion the world currently finds
itself in. Like sin-eaters if sins had to be ingested from a very small
spoon, V**gra Boys have consumed the utterly incomprehensible chaos of
our era and distilled it into the 12 immaculate tracks that make up
_Cave World_.
The announcement of the album comes at the end of a sold-out US tour,
and alongside the announcement of new US and EU dates that include a
Fall 2022 US Co-headline tour with UK band Shame. Kicking off September
29th for two nights at Oakland’s New Parish and wrapping on Halloween
in Dallas, the twenty-three date tour will make stops in Denver,
Nashville, Brooklyn, New Orleans and so much more (full dates below).
The band will then head to the EU for an additional run of dates, making
this their largest tour yet. More dates remain to be announced as well.
As 2021’s _Welfare Jazz _was earning rave reviews from the likes of
Pitchfork, NPR, GQ, NME, Stereogum, Fader, and more, Viagra Boys were in
the midst of rerecording what would become their followup. After putting
together an entire album at the legendary Silence Studio in the town of
Koppom, the band decided they could push harder. “We let it marinate for
a while and then rerecorded absolutely everything,” Murphy explains.
Some of the music made it through to what would become _Cave World_, but
replacing the lyrics. In that iterative process, Murphy found himself
returning time and again to a misconception with deeper roots: the idea
that humanity is moving forward. After watching a video late one evening
about a theory that suggests evolution involved trading in some
cognitive abilities for others, Murphy began stewing on the fact that
the result was mass shootings and science denial. “I just wrote down,
‘Who is the true ape?'” he says. “People look down at apes as primitive
life forms, but we’re just this horrible, lazy society killing each
other and starting wars, while they’re able to love and feel. Does
that make them the true ape or us?”
