{"id":21368,"date":"2023-03-10T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=21368"},"modified":"2023-03-12T09:52:30","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T09:52:30","slug":"the-bar-stool-preachers-above-the-static-pure-noise-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=21368","title":{"rendered":"The Bar Stool Preachers- ‘Above The Static’ (Pure Noise Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\"\"<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

\u201cTry something, try something different.\u201d So sings Tom McFaull lead singer of the Bar Stool Preachers during the intro to \u2018Going Forward\u2019 the final track on the band\u2019s all-new album, \u2018Above The Static\u2019, and its almost like he\u2019s breaking the musical fourth wall in doing so, because this the band\u2019s third studio record (and first for new record label Pure Noise Records) is exactly that, different, in fact, it\u2019s very different indeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But let\u2019s not get ahead of ourselves here. It\u2019s been five (yup FIVE) years since the band released their sophomore record \u2018Grazie Governo\u2019 and began leaping rungs on the ladder of musical infamy as they started to climb their way to headliner status, building on the bedrock of their excellent 2016 debut \u2018Blatant Propaganda\u2019 they were seemingly willing to play anywhere and everywhere and in the process where developing a global fanbase\/community quite like no other I\u2019d witnessed for such a still (relatively) young band. It was in late 2019 that the band took me into their confidence and let me hear the demos for their soon-to-be-recorded third album, the intention for me (having been a follower of the band ever since the frontman told me all about the concept of his soon to be formed band outside a boozer one rainy night in Amsterdam back in 2014!!!!) to give some hopefully constructive feedback on the 22 songs they had written up to that point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All I have left from that online listening party is my fast scribbled note on each track and some distant memories of what might have been, because just around the corner was of course a global pandemic the likes of which we hope will never see again, and something that along the way whilst potentially changing the shape of the music industry forever also cost The Bar Stool Preachers their (at the time) yet to be signed major record deal that was to be home for that all-new record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A couple of those tracks did get released during the pandemic via the \u2018Soundtrack To Your Apocalypse\u2019 charity 12\u201d picture disc (with all profits going to the NHS here in the UK), but the rest were seemingly lost forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is until the band decided in April 2021 to get together with producer Ben Hannah, the guys setting up camp at The Waterloo (which was still closed at the time due to Covid restrictions) a three-story pub\/venue in Blackpool, to begin the process of reshaping some of those songs for what would be the making of their third album, one they might even have to self-release. However, when they listened to ‘Flatlined’ (which was originally called \u2018Heart Attack\u2019 Preacher trivia fans), the first song they committed to tape there, it dawned on them that it sounded like the finished product, so why not just go for bloody broke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n