slowthai shares video for ‘YUM’
Shares video for YUM
UGLY – Out Now
“on Ugly, he’s succeeded in minting a sound that’s entirely his own: severe, noisy, occasionally punishing…Ugly is an album that carves out its own space: messy but vital, it deserves to be huge.” AOTW The Guardian *****
“‘UGLY’ is a warts-and-all reckoning, his most exhilarating project to date from front to back.” NME *****
“Never Again conjures up early Bowie…What a brilliant album.” AOTW Sunday Times Culture ****
“A powerful journey into the heart of greatness…Tyron Frampton cements his position as one of British rap’s true greats.” Rolling Stone UK ****
“It’s a masterstroke as far as Slowthai is concerned… I’m struggling to think of a contemporary artist who pulls off this mix of the sublime and the ridiculous to such great effect.” i Paper ****
“UGLY is a powerful and direct transmission from a brilliant, beleaguered brain.” The Independent ****
WATCH ‘YUM’
slowthai’s third studio album UGLY was released on Friday on Method Records. Today he shares the video for the album opener ‘YUM’. Not for the faint hearted, the Crowns & Owls directed visual epically nails the propulsive panic attack of a song. You might want to pop a beta blocker before going in on this one…
A stand out from the album it’s a visceral vociferous introduction to UGLY and in fact the last song slowthai and producer Dan Carey with additional production from Zach Nahome created for the record. The video encapsulates everything you might expect to spill from slowthai’s brilliant and complex mind at the time of recording the track. “More coke, more weed, more E’s, more trips…” set to an industrial techno masterpiece. slowthai has quit smoking weed and drinking to excess but the impulse doesn’t go away. “Yum is me saying this is what people want me to do but this isn’t doing anything for me. I’m ready to leave it all behind but it keeps pulling me back — more this, more that, it’s never enough.”
To celebrate the album’s release and coming off the back of a short, sharp 6 date gig run of local pubs and small venues, slowthai hosted the UGLY pop-up shop at Truman Brewery in London over the weekend. Partnering with Rough Trade, slowthai greeted fans at the shop all day on Saturday, signing copies of UGLY and printing exclusive T’s. Archive merch plus items from music videos and artwork such as the stocks from Nothing Great About Britain, and the decapitated Boris Johnson head that he pulled out of a bag during his performance at the Mercury Music Prize Awards, were all on display.
Following his Mercury Music Prize nominated and much lauded debut Nothing Great About Britain and his chart-topping sophomore album TYRON where he turned the lens inward, UGLY flips the narrative on the UK’s most exhilarating musical talents once again.
Check out the visual playlist for the album HERE – a short video for every song on the album featuring slowthai.
Stream/Buy UGLY HERE
UGLY world tour – UK/EU Dates
20/09 – Barrowland Ballroom – Glasgow
21/09 – O2 Victoria Warehouse – Manchester
22/09 – Alexandra Palace – London
23/09 – O2 Academy – Birmingham
27/09 – Elysee Montmarte – Paris, France
28/09 – Paradiso – Amsterdam, Netherlands
29/09 – Metropol – Berlin, Germany
30/09 – AB – Brussels, Belgium
UGLY tour tickets HERE
