UNIVERSITY have announced their debut album ‘McCartney, It’ll Be OK’, set for release on 20th June via Transgressive. The Crewe-based four-piece have also shared new single ‘Curwen’.
The album, recorded with producer Kwes Darko at Damon Albarn’s Studio 13 in London, follows their 2023 EP ‘Title Track’. The new record was recorded live, maintaining the band’s characteristic chaotic energy.
Joel Smith explains: “There was a conscious choice in the writing to make it more emotionally varied. It encapsulates a wider array of emotions. We’ve got a more light-hearted way of looking at our band now. It puts the sounds from the EP into colour. Because we’re influenced by a lot of emo and music that’s extreme, we realised things can only be so miserable unless you have something to contrast it with. You can only feel the dark properly when you also feel the light. You want to feel all the jumps… like The White Album.”
Regarding their new single ‘Curwen’, the band share: “Pale sunlight bounds over timid concrete, time jumps like a broken typewriter, the future is past and the past is irrelevant, faces falling in the animal soup of time.”
Their dates in full read:
APRIL
10 Third Man Records – The Blue Basement, London, UK – sold out
MAY
16 Paradiso, Amsterdam, NL
JUNE
14 Outbreak Festival, Manchester, UK
SEPTEMBER
6 Misty Fields Festival, Asten-Heusden, NL
17 George Tavern, London, UK
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