Godsticks have shared the first single from their long-awaited seventh studio album VOiD today. The new track, titled ‘M.I.A.,’ is the first glimpse into Godsticks’ darkest, heaviest, and most uncompromising album to date. With the single comes a new video produced by Martin Holmes. The new album is due out on March 27th.
Speaking about the new single, frontman and songwriter Darran Charles said – “Although I’ve no experience in the field of psychology I’ve always been fascinated (and indeed tortured) by that voice in your head that goes under various guises such as ‘inner critic’ or ‘inner monologue’.
Mine is a mouthy bastard that has an opinion on practically everything and never fails to offer it -incessantly. No amount of internal vitriol directed at it seems to quieten its destructively negative offerings. It never sleeps either – I could wake up at 4am to use the bathroom and to my surprise and determent, it reminds me that it’s been up all night searching through the archives to remind me of some embarrassment I felt 25 years ago.
I always like to imagine this voice manifested in physical form, so when it tells me that it thinks I’m a terrible musician, or that I’m conceited, or that I’ve wasted my life away, or lists all the wrong decisions I’ve made over my life, then I could beat the living shit out of it.
MIA is a song about that. And I think this same voice was responsible for writing the guitar and drum parts, because they were tortuous too, and made us all question our ability as musicians at one point or another. We won in the end though, so fuck you, me!”
Both lyrically and musically, VOiD reflects a disillusionment with a world increasingly defined by division, ideological rigidity, and the loss of nuance. The album documents a conscious withdrawal from the noise – a retreat into a personal void.
Pre-order here: https://godsticks.lnk.to/VOiDFA
GODSTICKS – VOiD
1. M.I.A. — 04:08
2. Hold Back — 04:41
3. Watch It Burn — 03:05
4. Master of a Plan — 04:47
5. Torn Again — 05:31
6. Can’t Withstand — 05:07
7. Ruthless Coward — 04:28
8. Talking Through Walls Pt. 1 — 03:28
9. Talking Through Walls Pt. 2 — 04:30
10. Hope Is Burning — 04:55
GODSTICKS UK TOUR DATES
April 17th – London, Hope and Anchor TICKETS
April 18th – Nottingham, The Old Sal TICKETS
April 23rd – Manchester, Gullivers TICKETS
April 24th – Birmingham, The Victoria TICKETS
April 25th – Swansea, The Bunkhouse TICKETS
May 1st – Hidden, Dundee TICKETS
May 2nd – The Banshee Labyrinth, Edinburgh TICKETS
June 27th – The Louisiana, Bristol TICKETS
June 28th – The 1865, Southampton TICKETS
July 4th – SOS Festival, Oldham TICKETS
