No, your rose-coloured glasses do not deceive you — British indie rockers the Big Pink are indeed back with a new single.
Following their 2012 sophomore album Future This, many are calling this the band's first new material in a decade — although they did release the single "Hightimes" back in 2016 (ahead of an anticipated EP that never came into fruition). Otherwise, they had effectively gone on hiatus after losing founding member Milo Cordell in 2013, barring a 2018 tour with Wolf Alice.
But it was doing that tour that solidified to bandleader Robbie Furze that "it was time to do the Big Pink again," as per a new interview with NME. He also told the publication that the band's third album can finally be expected this fall.
The outfit's return to form is led by shoegaze-y new single "No Angels." Produced by Tony Hoffer (Beck, Air, Phoenix), the fuzzy cut is built around a riff sampled from Bad Cop's "Light On."
"It's a track reflecting that moment when you understand that all you've set your sights on has led to a place far away from where you should be and everything you truly love," Furze said of the single in a press release. "It took sacrificing everything I'd built in London and moving to Los Angeles, a place I thought I needed to be in order to achieve my dreams, for me to realize that it was about much more than just myself. I had a moment of clarity when I understood what's truly important and what I needed to do to get back to everything and everyone that I loved."
Watch the video for "No Angels" below.
Following their 2012 sophomore album Future This, many are calling this the band's first new material in a decade — although they did release the single "Hightimes" back in 2016 (ahead of an anticipated EP that never came into fruition). Otherwise, they had effectively gone on hiatus after losing founding member Milo Cordell in 2013, barring a 2018 tour with Wolf Alice.
But it was doing that tour that solidified to bandleader Robbie Furze that "it was time to do the Big Pink again," as per a new interview with NME. He also told the publication that the band's third album can finally be expected this fall.
The outfit's return to form is led by shoegaze-y new single "No Angels." Produced by Tony Hoffer (Beck, Air, Phoenix), the fuzzy cut is built around a riff sampled from Bad Cop's "Light On."
"It's a track reflecting that moment when you understand that all you've set your sights on has led to a place far away from where you should be and everything you truly love," Furze said of the single in a press release. "It took sacrificing everything I'd built in London and moving to Los Angeles, a place I thought I needed to be in order to achieve my dreams, for me to realize that it was about much more than just myself. I had a moment of clarity when I understood what's truly important and what I needed to do to get back to everything and everyone that I loved."
Watch the video for "No Angels" below.
