Brighton trio Tigercub have unveiled ‘Omen’, the first track to appear from their newly confirmed ‘Abstract Figures In The Dark’ LP, due on the 11th November through Alcopop! Records.
“After burying my emotions deep into obscure metaphors in past songs, I feel like it’s time to just f*cking come out and say it: Everything is not okay and it never was,” lead singer and guitarist Jamie Hall says bluntly. “‘Abstract Figures in the Dark’ is about a thousand anxieties that I’m too scared to talk about.”
“It is the soundtrack as we pass through the event horizon and float helplessly toward the blackhole… we are all Schrodinger’s Cat, trapped between life and death, trapped between physical and digital, trapped between paradigms trying to find meaning in a world our parents already destroyed. Waiting desperately to be observed so that our fate can be decided. God is dead and we’ve been left to dwell in our own personal paradox.”
“I was born out of the wreckage of a failed marriage. I am my own first world problem. I grew up with abnormalities both physically and mentally in an ex-mining town in northern England and it’s simultaneously my biggest regret and my glowing pride.”
“We’re so fucking bored of rock music and scared that punk is becoming its own version of conservatism. It just doesn’t feel relevant anymore. We wanted to make a record for the 21st Century. This album marks the start of our journey outside the box. Don’t get me started on politics.”
‘Omen’ offers a storming introduction to the record, more immediate than anything Tigercub have released to date. Progressive and dirty, it’s a three and a half minute whirlwind of considered ominous chaos.