All I ever hear on the radio are songs about love
Every tune I hear is a love gone wrong or a love gone right
Splitting up or splitting hearts to the ooo wah sound
The obligatory baby, the formula seems to work
New songs about love
The flow never stops
The Lovesong Industrial Complex
People pay for love songs or download them illegally
Kids as young as 3 sing about them, incredibly
There is nothing wrong with a song about love
But they are rarely ever platonic
Lots of full bloodied lust and crying in your gin and tonic
New songs about love
The flow never stops
The Lovesong Industrial Complex
People losing the plot
New songs about love
The flow never stops
The Lovesong Industrial Complex
Holding on the telephone line in a telephone queue
Waiting in the sex clinic’s lobby before they see you
Bleeding brine in stereo eyes on the back seat of a bus
Car windows wound down in the summertime
Public domain decibels strain
New songs about love
The flow never stops
The Lovesong Industrial Complex
People losing the plot
New songs about love
The flow never stops
The Lovesong Industrial Complex
Danced by Ollie Mozley; Shot by Lou Smith in South London
Meatraffle are thrilled to announce they will be releasing ’Base and Superstructure’, their third studio album on Blang Records on .
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Recorded during lockdown, produced & mixed by Meatraffle keyboardist Chris OC, Dante Traynor (SWEAT, Fat White Family ’Feet’), additional mixing by Angelica Björnsson (Hi - Texas feat. Wu Tang Clan) and mastered by Dean Honer (Eccentronic Research Council, I Monster, The Moonlandingz), ‘Base and Superstructure’ marks a new sonic departure for the band rightly acknowledged as godfathers of the now infamous South London scene, centred around the Windmill in Brixton.
The band play two London shows to celebrate the release on Friday 29th September at Windmill Brixton and Saturday 30th September at The George Tavern with a full UK tour in February 2024.
London show tickets available here:
Founded in 2014, Meatraffle have toured extensively across the UK and Europe as both a headline act and support to the likes of Fat White Family, Sleaford Mods and Warmduscher. Festival appearances include SXSW, Green Man and Liverpool Psych Fest.
In addition to their previous two LPs (’Hi Fi Classics’ and ’Bastard Music’), the band have released singles on Dan Carey’s Speedy Wunderground and Moshi Moshi, plus numerous remixes including ’Meatraffle on the Moon’ by the one and only Andrew Weatherall. The band have also played sessions for Marc Riley (BBC 6Music) plus regular plays from other 6Music DJs including Iggy Pop, Gideon Coe and Amy Lamé.
“We were looking for labels for a while, sending out demos to small ‘indie’ labels to which we often had the response, “we really like it but we’re not signing anyone at the moment”, which feels like the new “don’t call us we’ll call you!”... We knew we had a good record so didn’t get knocked back and knew it would be a climb as many of these small and large ‘indie’ or ‘alternative’ labels can be even more conservative than the mainstream, I guess having less money and therefore having to ‘play it safe’.
We bumped into Blang one night at The George Tavern and instantly had a good feeling about them…and guess what? They loved the music!” - Meatraffle frontman, Zsa Zsa Sapien.
Genre-bending independent label Blang Records is a wildly non-commercial label firmly rooted in the DIY/anything goes attitude of punk and antifolk, and has remained consistent in its commitment to releasing outsider music by the likes of David Cronenberg’s Wife, Jack Medley’s Secure Men, Brix & The Extricated, Milk Kan, Thomas Truax and many more.
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