London trio
Alien Chicks have found a new home at Alcopop! Records. Alongside the signing, the band have confirmed details of their forthcoming
'Toys Taken At Birth' EP, due on 2nd October, and have released its lead single
'5/4'.Two members of Alien Chicks work as full-time school teachers, and '5/4' draws directly from that experience - the grind of maintaining a day job while carving out space for creativity.
The trio said of the track: "'5/4' is a staple of our live sets and mosh pits, and was written about the pressure of surviving under a system that leaves little room to live. It traces the slow fracture of a 9-to-5, where creativity is squeezed into whatever time capitalism doesn't take. The shifting time signature - grounded in 5 but slipping into 6 - mirrors that instability, a constant sense of imbalance."
A run of UK in-store dates and a European tour are planned for the autumn around the EP's arrival.
The dates in full read:
MAY
24 In It Together Festival, Port Talbot, UK
JUNE
5 Bulletproof Festival, Earth, London, UK
20 Where It All Began Festival, Huntingdon, UK
27 Fusion Festival, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, DE
AUGUST
7 Klangtherapie Festival, Plankenfels, DE
OCTOBER
2 Rough Trade East, London, UK
4 Jacaranda, Liverpool, UK
5 Banquet Records, Kingston, UK
7 Rough Trade, Bristol, UK
16 Supersonic, Paris, FR
17 Simplon, Groningen, NL
19 Paradiso, Amsterdam, NL
20 Glocksee, Hannover, DE
21 Molotow, Hamburg, DE
22 Rust, Copenhagen, DK
24 Volksbad, Flensburg, DE
30 Sala Maravillas, Madrid, ES
