LEATHERETTE
WATCH NEW VIDEO FOR ‘THE UGLIEST’ HERE
NEW ALBUM ‘SMALL TALK’ OUT NOW VIA BRONSON RECORDINGS
CONFIRMED FOR ESNS FESTIVAL 2024
Leatherette have recently released their second album ‘Small Talk‘ via Bronson Recordings. They have also just been confirmed to play at next year’s ESNS Festival in Groningen (17-20 January 2024).
Today, they shared the video for single ‘The Ugliest’. A DIY, lo-fi affair that the band has described as “‘if ‘The Dude” had been directed by Edgar Wright”.
WATCH ‘THE UGLIEST’ VIDEO HERE
Previous album singles are the subterranean disco heaven ‘Bureaucracy Apocalypse‘, ‘Fade Away‘, the closest in their songbook to a ballad and ‘Ronaldo‘, a song that explodes in jazz and shoegaze elements.
Following their incendiary 2022 debut album ‘Fiesta’, Bologna’s Leatherette are ready to deliver an even more provocative and sophisticated record with the follow-up, ‘Small Talk‘. Emboldened by the acclaim won by ‘Fiesta’, ‘Small Talk’ finds Leatherette breaking free of the post-punk straitjacket some were keen to strap them in, indulging their love of wild noise and twisted pop.
Leatherette’s second album is clearly the work of a group ready to take flight in a new direction and it transcends all they have done before. It coins a voice uniquely their own, driven by the same furies that propelled ‘Fiesta’, but finding fresh new forms for expression. It boasts some of their most unabashed pop songs to date – albeit pop that’s deftly twisted, pointedly perverse and ready to explode when you least expect it. It also contains some of the group’s most challenging and uncompromising noise yet, the violent swinging back-and-forth between ugly din and nagging tunefulness a (molotov) cocktail that grows only more addictive with each listen. A smart, bold and focused thrill ride that sounds like nothing else out there.
BUY/STREAM ‘SMALL TALK’ HERE
“Short, snappy and exuding all the force of a titan-like piece of music, all in a half-hour” Cult Following
“A remarkable album from a band with tons of potential” Krach Fink
Album of the Week – Hash Brand New
“Beautiful noise, with traces of shoegaze and jazz” Heat Wave
“Much of the album is clearly still the work of a band that last time described itself as “five shy guys who sometimes come off stage and punch people”, but it contains many surprises, passages of unexpected tenderness and a refinement and complexity” Luminous Dash
“Great band with influences ranging from current UK post-punk, 90’s post-hardcore, Midwest emo, and no wave. It’s especially unique in its use of chords and easy-to-listen structure” Niche Music
“Leatherette’s sound is an odd sort of tooty angry jazz tirade, short and straight to the point. Jazz agit punk? I’m sure that’s a genre now. If not, it definitely should be” ★★★★★ Outside Left
“These Italian misfits delivered a gloriously chaotic full-length with a biting and bone-chilling impact. Maddening music without frontiers” Turn Up The Volume
“It boasts some of their most unabashed pop songs to date – albeit pop that’s twisted, pointedly perverse and ready to explode when you least expect it” Silent Radio
“The songs’ anthemic aggressive nature brings classic tendencies into a new indie post-punk framework. We hear evidence of The Clash to match the violent energy known to Idles” The Wild is Calling Us
