PHOTO CREDIT: LUKE LEBIHAN
BLUE VIOLET
FIRE SINGLE // OUT NOW
ECHOBELLY TOUR // NOVEMBER & DECEMBER
FAUX ANIMAUX LP // 24 JANUARY 2025
LONDON THE GRACE // 25 JANUARY 2025
North London alt-indie duo BLUE VIOLET – singer Sarah McGrigor and guitarist Sam Gotley – have shared their new single Fire ahead of their tour with Echobelly this November and December. Their second album, Faux Animaux, will be released on 24 January on Me & My Records via High Head Recordings and they will play an album launch show at The Grace in London on Saturday 25 January.
The duo explain the intention with Fire:
“It was to draw attention to one of our most basic instincts – desire. The two types of desire that fuel human beings are sexual desire and power and this song is about the relationship between the initial feeling of desire and the way it manifests once it’s acted upon. We use fire to both build and destroy – fire is unruly and difficult to control, as is lust. On first listen it might seem like this is just a sex song but we definitely had in mind the sinister nature of power and how it is obtained. The desire to seek more and more, to build and build, to take and take.”
In April Blue Violet shared lead single Boogie Shoes, a grainy glam stomp aimed midway between Queens Of The Stone Age and St Vincent. This was followed by Imagine Me – amid dark 80s electro-rock tones akin to a more seductive Depeche Mode, the track portrays a lustful temptress (groupie, cougar, stalker or lovelorn loner) frustrated that the sexual encounter she so meticulously plots is over in a flash. Survival followed – a gentle paean chanelling Metric, Mazzy Star, Cigarettes After Sex and Julee Cruise – while the most recent single Barefoot On The Seine is a schizophrenic dispatch from the edges of a Parisian riot: its verses lost in graceful Gallic romance; its choruses all grunge rock eruptions; its whole a righteous call to arms in support of essential personal freedoms.
On the Faux Animaux album, Blue Violet continue their exploration of rich electronic avenues inspired by Anna Calvi, St Vincent, Radiohead, Bowie and Twin Peaks. With their songwriting as sublime as ever, they’re becoming one of the most enthralling underground propositions of the age.
FAUX ANIMAUX | TRACK LISTING
- Sweet Success
- Imagine Me
- Survival
- Talking To You
- The Librarian
- Cold Hearts
- Boogie Shoes
- Fire
- Teeth Out
- Barefoot On The Seine
- Faux Animaux
Preorder the album here
Recorded in J&J Studios in Bristol with Bat For Lashes and Hannah Peel mixer and producer TJ Allen, Faux Animaux is a unified and sophisticated update of modern British alt-pop, drifting from sizzling space disco to stunning, cinematic vistas.
Blue Violet returned to the live stage in March – when they also shared one off single Human After All – to join The Gaslight Anthem during various shows at London Roundhouse but, as the duo have shown festival crowds this summer, Faux Animaux is set to usher in their own glory days. It’s a stunning amalgam of modernism and melody that spotlights not just failings of humankind but also those of its leaders. As Sam says: “The fake animals could be seen as the powers that be, leading us down paths that result in us ignoring our more natural instincts, often making decisions without our permission.”
Quietly, a beast awakens.
Blue Violet will spend the autumn on the road with the legendary Echobelly ahead of the release of the album on 24 January 2025.
NOVEMBER
Fri 15 NEWPORT Corn Exchange
Sat 16 GLOUCESTER Guildhall
Mon 18 BIRMINGHAM Rainbow
Tue 19 BIRKENHEAD Future Yard
Wed 20 STOCKTON Georgian Theatre
Fri 22 EDINBURGH Cabaret Voltaire
Sun 24 GLASGOW King Tuts
Mon 25 YORK Crescent
Tue 26 GRIMSBY Docks Academy
Wed 27 NOTTINGHAM Metronome
Fri 29 BOURNEMOUTH Old Fire Station
Sat 30 EXETER Phoenix
DECEMBER
Sun 01 BRIGHTON Concorde 2
Tue 03 LEEDS Brudenell Social Club
Wed 04 SHEFFIELD Network 2
Thu 05 CAMBRIDGE Mash
JANUARY
Sat 25 LONDON The Grace
Tickets available here: https://www.songkick.com/artists/10169018-blue-violet
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