Dragged Up: Blake’s Tape
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Glaswegian group Dragged Up emerge after an extended winter with new single Blake’s Tape that includes their very own signature mix of superfuzz distortion, eerie undertones and evocative storytelling.
It’s been virtually a yr since Dragged Up’s debut album, Excessive On Ripple, which adopted their 2020 self titled mini album. The band, consisting of Eva Gnatiuk – guitar & vocals; Simon Shaw – guitar & vocals; Stephen Mors – drums; with visitors Alpha Michelle on bass & backing vocals and Sophie Sexon on flute, violin & backing vocals, have been in comparison with many bands, Velvet Underground, Crass, The Slits… however while there could also be parts of those, they appear to take a seat in a barely totally different actuality.
The monitor fades in such as you’re strolling down the steps to a scorching sweaty venue mid track earlier than drums and guitar kick in, barely disorientating till the guitar kicks in adopted by a stable beat which could have your head nodding/banging in time.
Talking of the lyrics, vocalist Eva explains,“The track relies on a widely known horror movie so I’m positive people would quite get the references with out them being spelled out,” including, “It’s not the primary time my lyrics have been based mostly on horror/cult movies/tropes/TV as they’ve been ingrained in my unconscious for thus lengthy that they demand to return out!”
The radio edit of Blake’s Tape is out now out on streaming platforms with the full-length model, at the moment solely out there on Bandcamp and on restricted version cassette and CD (coupled with b-side Clachan Dubh) at their upcoming exhibits with The Onerous Quartet all through the EU and UK in June.
Porto – 02/06/25 – The Onerous Membership
Lisbon -03/06/25 – Capitolio Theatre
Madrid – 05/06/25 – Sala Villanos
Berlin – 14/06/25 – Hole44
Dresden – 15/06/25 – Beatpol
Hamburg – 16/06/25 – Kent Membership
Cologne – 17/06/25 – Gebaude9
Leeds – 24/06/25 – Brudenell Social Membership
Glasgow 25/06/25 – St Luke’s
Manchester 26/06/25 – Gorilla
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Photograph Provided by Dragged Up
All phrases by Iain Key. See his writer profile right here or discover him on Bluesky
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