KERMES ANNOUNCE DEBUT ALBUM ‘WE CHOOSE PRETTY NAMES’ & SHARE FIRST SINGLE ‘THE ARGONAUTS

KERMES ANNOUNCE DEBUT ALBUM ‘WE CHOOSE PRETTY NAMES’

SHARE FIRST SINGLE ‘THE ARGONAUTS

Robot Needs Home – 13th April 2018  

Leicester based DIY up-and-comers Kermes have announced their debut album ‘We Choose Pretty Names’ and shared first single ‘The Argonauts’. ‘We Choose Pretty Names’ is due out on the 13^th April 2018 via Robot Needs Home.

 Kermes are a queer indie-punk band, born in the heart of Leicester’s close-knit DIY music community. Over the course of an EP and on their upcoming debut album, their music explores themes of transgender identity, depression, misogyny, anti-capitalism, queer relationships and the experience of being an increasingly visible target in an increasingly hostile world; all delivered in a danceable whirlwind of pop hooks and punk aggression.

 Their debut album follows on from 2016’s ‘You See Others Seeing You’ EP (Robot Needs Home) which earned the band attention from BBC 6Music, God Is in the TV and Amazing Radio amongst others.

Having already earned themselves a fearsome live reputation, the band spent 2016 playing on the main-stage at Leicester’s Handmade Festival alongside UK tours and supports with the likes of Muncie Girls, Kagoule, The Big Moon, Get Inuit and Colour Me Wednesday, finding themselves as happy and at home in 1000+ capacity venues as they are in basement and house shows.

Their debut album, “We Choose Pretty Names”, captures this intensity and the chaos of their live shows which when mixed with the diversity of their sound, pushes Kermes to ever more exciting places than ever before. Running from dreamy loops (“Boyfriend”) through snappy indie-punk (“Questioning”) to all-out-meltdown (“We Choose Pretty Names”), the song writing is increasingly direct and emotional and the passion and ambition on display in this record sets the band apart and marks them for big things.

‘We Choose Pretty Names’ was tracked at Seamus Wong studios in Leicester with John Helps of DIY Instrumental band Maybeshewill looking after production duties and mastered by Forward Russia’s Tom Woodhead.

Kermes will be touring the UK next year with Taco Hell in January and later in the year with Happy Accidents (Alcopop)

‘We Choose Pretty Names’ can be pre-ordered now.

The band have also shared a video for ‘The Argonauts’ which can be seen here

 Tour Dates:

2^nd January – Exeter Cavern – Exeter (Headline)

4^th January – The Sunflower Loung – Brimingham (With Taco Hell)

5^th January – Hydra Bookshop – Bristol (With Taco Hell)

6^th January – The Bodega – Nottingham (With Taco Hell)

14^th April – YMCA – Leicester (Headline)

18^th April – Gwdihw – Cardiff (With Happy Accidents)

19^th April – Nottingham TBC (With Happy Accidents)

20^th April – Wharf Chambers – Leeds (With Happy Accidents)

Links:

Facebook: www.facebook.com/kermesforever

Twitter: @kermesforever