FEWS - 'Get Out'
Sweden-based post-punkers FEWS announces their third album ‘GLASS CITY’ with the new single release ‘Get Out’.
Formed in 2014 and hailing from Sweden, America and England FEWS have built a fearsome reputation for their immersive live shows from touring across the UK and Europe with the likes of Fat White Family, Crack Cloud and Pixies. With their reputation for their live shows, they’ve had to add new shows to their 2023 tour due to the demand featured with their single ‘GLASS CITY’ due for release on the 14th of April.
Affirming their place at the crest of a blistering new wave of post-punk, they kicked off the start of their career with their debut single ‘Ill’ in 2015 which is featured on their 2016 debut album ‘Means’ which was followed by their 2019 album ‘Into Red’ which reflects the worldly observations in broken mirrors and considers the uncertainty of contemporary life through the eyes of others. But their new single ‘Get Out’ is the first time FEWS have turned their gaze inwards. After releasing ‘Into Red’ FEWS went straight back to the studio and began experimenting with producer Joakim Lindberg. Making them leave behind the urge to compromise for the sake of accessibility their upcoming third album ‘GLASS CITY’ is unashamedly honest, raw and represents FEWS at their brutal best.
This speaker-rattling single ‘Get Out’ is underpinned by a relentless unsettling synth loop intended to echo the overwhelming alienation that bassist Jay Clifton felt on his first time alone in Malmö which was far from anything familiar. The accompanying video for this single is filmed and directed by FEWS themselves to amplify the discomfort, which is through a home video haze we witness as plate after plate is consumed by a party-hard protagonist who is determined to have a good time, until things literally fall apart. This performance perfectly captures the band’s unsettling intensity as even though it is unsavoury and grotesque, it’s impossible to look away.
Words by Bethany Simms
