British punk duo Sleaford Mods have unveiled two previously unreleased tracks named ‘Git Some Balls’ and ‘Air Con’. One track is a reworking of a previous song, ‘Air Conditioning’. The releases come just before the 10th anniversary of their disc, ‘Divide & Exit’, which is being reissued on 26 July 2019.
The reissue will come with new sleeve notes written by the singer, Jason Williamson, and The Wire’s 2014 interview with the band (carried out by the late Mark Fisher) will also be reprinted. Towards the end of 2013, the band began to record the material that would eventually comprise ‘Divide and Exit’. They created much of this follow-up album to ‘Austerity Dogs’ in a shed in vocalist Williamson’s back garden. The album breaks up into 14 tracks, all with equally subversive titles: ‘Liveable Shit’, ‘Tied Up In Nottz’ and ‘Keep Out of It’, to name a few.
‘Git Some Balls’ was composed and recorded during these album sessions, complete with Williamson’s impression of The Ghostbusters’ siren. “We knew what we needed for the album, and we felt that this was not quite right for Divide and Exit,” said Williamson. “What’s weird is that the cuts always sound great when you get back to them, as nice as the material that got taken through to create the album.”
According to the artist, ‘Austerity Dogs’ howls “a rather solid type of impotent anger,” while Divide and Exit tried to “presume this primary type of class awareness.” Williamson claims that they have established a formula after ‘Austerity Dogs’: “Andrew [Fearn] only takes the formula and operates with it and his music started to sound even more succinct and immediate. Listening to it today, Divide and Exit is perhaps the most punk-like record we’ve ever done.”
Additionally, along with the ‘Git Some Balls’ flexi, limited edition versions of the disc will also feature new sleeve notes written by Williamson, and The Wire’s interview with the band will also be reprinted in full. As well as the upcoming album reissue, a CD version of the album will be available only from Sleaford Mods and Rough Trade Records online shops. Furthermore, the band’s new cover will appear on a one-off t-shirt, available from their web store, with the clothing proceeds going to War Child UK. Visit here to pre-order the album.
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