{"id":17909,"date":"2022-02-19T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=17909"},"modified":"2022-02-19T15:15:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T15:15:20","slug":"the-imbeciles-release-video-from-new-album-ahead-of-tour-with-killing-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=17909","title":{"rendered":"The Imbeciles release video from new album ahead of tour with Killing Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>THE IMBECILES ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM \u2018IMBECILICA\u2019 RECORDED AND CREATED WITH LEGENDARY PRODUCER YOUTH<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>OUT MAY 20<sup>th<\/sup> VIA CADIZ MUSIC<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>PRE-ORDER <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.viveleshop.com\/collections\/all\/products\/the-imbeciles-imbecelia-cd-lp-cassette?variant=39667458113591\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a><strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Taken from their forthcoming album which is released&nbsp;on Cadiz Music and is a collaboration with Youth from Killing Joke who produced the album and played bass on it, and they\u2019re touring with Killing Joke in March\/April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Imbeciles - Tiny Blue People (Official Video)\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l6Yubyq7CaA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Anglo-American Imbeciles are enigmatic writer\/guitarist Butch Dante\u2019s creation, with a history of being vividly reborn. In chrysalis form they were a conventional punk band, Wartoad, till a Californian tour finished at an ex-biker roadhouse, whose former denizens were still inclined to dig up guns and bury bodies in the surrounding desert. Improvising with extreme freedom at what felt like the end of the world, The Imbeciles were born here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2019\u2019s <em>The Imbeciles<\/em> debut album was taped in eight deranged days, in a haunted studio on the Texan-Mexican frontier, a record of abrupt razor-edits and spectral moods. This was followed by an unhinged gig at London\u2019s Heavenly Social where the band crashed and burned, with Dante pulling only singer John Kent from the wreckage with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As lockdown hit in 2020, the <em>Dissolution Sessions<\/em> EP was the first sign of renewed life, with a rebuilt line-up and sound. \u201cI said, \u2018I want to do pub-rock,\u2019\u201d Dante says, \u201cand it went over really well.\u201d It outsold the original album, with Crystal Palace fan Dante\u2019s art-punk football anthem \u201cSunday Leaguer\u201d being played on <em>Match Of The Day<\/em>. Youth (aka Martin Glover), loved it, and invited them to his Andalusian studio to properly begin Phase 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Colonel Kurtz and Hunter Thompson had seemed guiding spirits during the first album\u2019s stoned madness. Youth\u2019s El Mirador studio was equally extreme in its way, rewarding the Imbeciles who\u2019d survived Texas\u2019s purifying flame with a hippieish, bohemian Shangri-La. Waking up in Peter Murphy\u2019s bed (the Bauhaus singer is a regular guest), Dante had to pinch himself at this ascension into post-punk heaven. \u201cIt\u2019s on a mountain on Spain\u2019s southern coast,\u201d he recalls, \u201cwhere Youth has built a big compound with Moroccan-style minarets. It\u2019s quite chaotic, with incredibly esoteric furniture, art and books. You climb up a ladder to a sorcerer\u2019s library in a tower dedicated to music. It\u2019s got a huge, sunken sitting room with a big fire, and a pool. When we got there, it was just me, John Kent and Youth. For three days we just ate food and talked, listened to music and watched Kubrick movies \u2013 and <em>Final Destination<\/em>! &#8211; and decided what we were going to do. The rest of the band turned up and plugged in, and things started happening.\u201d Youth\u2019s musical partner Michael Rendall played keyboards, with Youth playing bass and co-writing throughout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Butch-Dante-and-Youth-photo-credit-Tom-Sheehan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Butch-Dante-and-Youth-photo-credit-Tom-Sheehan-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17910\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Butch-Dante-and-Youth-photo-credit-Tom-Sheehan-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Butch-Dante-and-Youth-photo-credit-Tom-Sheehan-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Butch-Dante-and-Youth-photo-credit-Tom-Sheehan-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Butch-Dante-and-Youth-photo-credit-Tom-Sheehan-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Butch-Dante-and-Youth-photo-credit-Tom-Sheehan-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Butch-Dante-and-Youth-photo-credit-Tom-Sheehan-1140x760.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>photo Tom Sheehan<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The first fruits of the sessions for new album \u2018Imbecilica\u2019 can be heard today in new single \u2018Tiny Blue People\u2019, a high-energy attack that explodes with vitality and melody. The Tiny Blue People in the video live an invisible existence at the bottom of swimming pools in the suburbs United States, cunningly camouflaged by their blue skin. At night they emerge to cause mischief and mayhem \u2013 and, sometimes, gory murder &#8211; before retreating back to their chlorinated and aquatic world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe song is about the duality of American middle-class society,\u201d reveals Butch Dante. \u201cAt one level everything looks perfect, idyllic &#8211; but in reality, those perfect lawns and crystal blue pools conceal the vilest perfidy, a world ruled by egotism and base cruelty.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE IMBECILES ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM \u2018IMBECILICA\u2019 RECORDED AND CREATED WITH LEGENDARY PRODUCER YOUTH OUT MAY 20th VIA CADIZ MUSIC PRE-ORDER HERE: &nbsp;Taken from their forthcoming album which is released&nbsp;on Cadiz Music and is a collaboration with Youth from Killing Joke who produced the album and played bass on it, and they\u2019re touring with Killing Joke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[257,7476,5902],"class_list":["post-17909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-killing-joke","tag-photo-tom-sheehan","tag-the-imbeciles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17909"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17912,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17909\/revisions\/17912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}