The Snuts On The Inspiration For Their New Album
The Snuts have spoken about their new album Burn The Empire and the inspiration behind some of its songs in a new interview with The Independent.
“We’ve always treated our music like a really sacred and personal thing,” frontman Jack Cochrane explained when talking about the band’s newly expanded sound. “But we needed to let people in, as artists, for us to not just become another generic indie band. I think the fear of becoming that is what pushes us.”
Cochrane didn’t hold back when discussing the inspiration behind some of the more politically charged lyrics on the album, “I’ve got friends who are gonna have their gas cut off, no money in the bank, can’t get to their dole interview or a doctor’s appointment… It’s piling up, and that was happening way before this new crisis.”
“I walked through a Glasgow square the other day, and on one side you’ve got this huge soup kitchen, queues of people, and in the middle there’s a mountain of trash, because of the bin strikes, and on another side there’s a vigil for drug deaths in Scotland, because we’ve still got the highest rate in the UK,” Cochrane went on. “That’s f***ing madness, it’s like… what is going on here?”
“It felt pretty cathartic to go into the studio and start screaming all this stuff… Everybody’s super frustrated, it’s like there’s this societal breakdown,” the singer said. “I’m glad that we’ve been bolder and braver on this record.”
“The topics are quite intense, so sonically I’m really glad that it sounds like we had a lot of fun,” he says. “There’s a jovial nature to the tracks, a lot of energy.”
The Snuts UK & Ireland tour dates
24.10.22 LONDON, UK – KOKO
25.10.22 GLASGOW, UK – O2 ACADEMY
28.10.22 INVERNESS, UK – IRONWORKS
15.11.22 BELFAST, UK – MANDELA HALL
16.11.22 DUBLIN, IRELAND – THE BUTTON FACTORY