UK post-punk band Folly Group is set to release their first album this Friday when Down There! hits the streets and digital outlets on Jan. 12 (So Young Records). The hard to classify group pulls from a variety of styles on the new LP, including dub, trip-hop, and Afro-Cuban rhythms beyond the typical rock-oriented influences and loud, angular guitars.
First, though the band is sharing one last single, "Pressure Pad, " which we're please to share with you below.
Vocalist/drummer Sean Harper explains:
Musically, "Pressure Pad" is a testament to how far we’ve come as collaborators. Every different kind of remote or in-the-room collaboration we’ve ever found fruitful was involved in creating this Frankenstein’s Monster of a single. Its final version arrived after months of exchanging files, ideas and needless spanners in the works. This is probably the 6th or 7th iteration of this song, and its final form was ultimately dictated by a deadline -- we’d probably never have been able to call it finished otherwise. Every room in which this album was made has birthed one or more elements of Pressure Pad: Louis’s flat, Tom’s flat, our rehearsal space, the studio where we recorded the bulk of the record. Lyrically, it touches on someone else being a massive part of your self, but loving it. It’s about totally going with the flow of a relationship, becoming someone you never otherwise would have been, but not over-analysing that, rather being grateful for it.
The band previously released the Awake and Hungary EP (2021) and Human And Kind (2022), building up to their debut full-length. The new LP is self-produced by the group. Presave and preorder.
Down There! tracklisting:
01. Big Ground
02. I'll Do What I Can
03. Bright Night
04. East Flat Crows
05. Strange Neighbour
06. Freeze
07. Pressure Pad
08. Nest
09. New Feature
10. Frame
