Melbourne, Australia- Rock band Press Club have announced new, self-produced album ‘Endless Motion’ due out 14th October 2022 on Hassle Records.
Alongside the announce, Press Club release single ‘Eugene’, a satisfyingly fuzzy and raucous track, packed with punchy guitars and unfalteringly energetic drums, all held together by lead singer Natalie Foster’s emotionally raw vocals. It’s a track that makes you feel those tense moments of insecurity but also that triumphant feeling of letting go. Foster says ‘Eugene’ is about “being stuck in a cycle of having so many things running through your head/things you need to say but being unable to express them in fear of being taken the wrong way.”
Listen to “Eugene” now
Brave, energetic and expansive, the idea of motion has always been central to the Press Club ethos. Having made music together for 12 years, the Melbourne-based punk rock four-piece reject stagnancy, constantly pushing to change and thrive in a scene that largely stays the same. Endless Motion is the ultimate artistic statement about the past three years – a collective and global struggle that has provided the material and circumstances for Press Club to emerge as one of the most exciting and relevant bands of 2022.
The second offering lifted from the new record, ‘Eugene’ follows on from ‘Cancelled’ the first of the new self produced works to see the light of day, which was premiered at triple j and received support as the BBC’s Rockest Record, plus spot plays across Radio 1 and BBC 6 Music in the UK.
The new album promises equal parts playful indie rock, punk grit and dreamy alt-rock, balancing the anecdotal and extrospective. Across their first two albums – the critical success of the adolescent commentary Late Teens (2018) and the frenetic freedom of Wasted Energy (2019) – Press Club proved themselves to be a thrilling new voice in global DIY punk rock scene.
The highly anticipated third album couldn’t have been made in more different circumstances than their second, which was written on the road touring and recorded in a six-day window in their calendar. Fun and speed were the order of the day. Plans were in place to record Endless Motion in Berlin in 2020 but when the pandemic shut the world down it offered Press Club a chance to reconsider all their proposed material.
“The album is a culmination of years of downtime and introspection, false starts and disappointments, bushfires and pandemics. Factors that forced us to dig out parts of ourselves to sculpt a body of work that was as uncompromising and raw as our previous releases, but executed with more polish and finesse than we thought ourselves capable of” says drummer Frank Lees of the new album.
With travel well and truly up and running, Press Club have just returned from three weeks burning across Europe and the UK playing at the likes of Download UK as well as Hurricane and Southside festivals in Germany. October and November will see Press Club take Endless Motion on the road playing across Australia, the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Czech and the Netherlands.
ENDLESS MOTION TRACKLIST
1. Eugene
2. Coward Street
3. Untitled Wildlife
4. Glasgow
5. Endless Motion
6. Cancelled
7. Lifelines
8. Afraid Of Everything
9. I Can Change
10. Less These Days
You can see the band at the following dates this Autumn:
28th October 2022 – Kasbah Club, Limerick, Ireland
29th October 2022 – Whelans Upstairs, Dublin, Ireland
31st October 2022 – Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds, UK
1st November 2022 – Stereo, Glasgow, UK
3rd November 2022 – The Flapper, Birmingham, UK
4th November 2022 – Deaf Institute, Manchester, UK
5th November 2022 – OSLO, London, UK
6th November 2022 – The Exchange, Bristol, UK
8th November 2022 – 1999, Paris, France
9th November 2022 – Trix, Antwerp, Belgium
10th November 2022 – Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands
11th November 2022 – Vera, Groningen, Netherlands
14th November 2022 – Cassiopeia, Berlin, Germany
15th November 2022 – Chapeau Rouge, Prague, Czech
16th November 2022 – Chelsea, Vienna, Austria
18th November 2022 – Bogen F, Zurich, Switzerland
19th November 2022 – Strom, Munich, Germany
20th November 2022 – MTC, Cologne, Germany
Tickets on sale now HERE
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PRESS CLUB will emerge as one of the most exciting and relevant bands of 2022.
‘Eugene’ and ‘Cancelled’ are out now
‘Endless Motion’ will be released 14th October on Hassle Records.
