Photo Credit: David Muir
Tijuana Bibles have announced their highly anticipated debut album Free Milk, due for release on 3rd September 2021 via 7 West Music. The band have also released their new single ‘Human Touch’, which was Jack Saunders‘ ‘Next Wave’ on BBC Radio 1’s Indie Show last night.
Check out the video for ‘Human Touch’ here: https://youtu.be/v7sccCsO-ko
Tijuana Bibles are a lit match in an otherwise dark world, their hellacious single ‘Stateless’ (released in November 2020) igniting a spark against despondency. Now, Tijuana Bibles return to a much darker state of affairs in the United Kingdom with new single ‘Human Touch’.
Taken from their upcoming debut album, Free Milk, ‘Human Touch’ is the sound of sheer gut feeling put to tape. It encapsulates our collective mass deprivation of each other. It is visceral, unfiltered and above all things, human.
Speaking of the new single and the announcement of Free Milk, vocalist Tony Costello says:
“Human Touch is about being disengaged from myself and others. Standing on a travelator, passing through all the fuzz and white noise of the city, and coming out the other side without noticing. It was written just as lockdown came in, probably from an anxious vantage point – heightened and dramatised lyrically – but as the year unfolds, it has become true to life.
“From the gutter, to the highest skyscrapers of our imagination, through the pounding noise of dystopian Britain, swimming in subconscious, displaced memories, in a life fragmented – all roads lead back to the human condition. Everything we do has a propulsive energy, ‘momentum’ was our mantra in the studio. We want the album to be transportive, we want you to lose yourself and come out the other side feeling different in some way.”
Signing to 7 West Music in late 2020, previous single ‘Stateless’ was the first piece of new material from Tijuana Bibles since 2017’s ‘Pariah’, which landed in IBERO 909 – Mexico’s biggest rock radio station – top 5 tracks of the year. ‘Stateless’ continued to impress, with support from Jack Saunders (BBC Radio 1), Alex Baker (Kerrang! Radio), John Kennedy (Radio X) and Amazing Radio, where the single hit the Number 1 spot on the station’s Chart Show.
Tijuana Bibles, brothers Tony (vocals/guitar) and Danny Costello (bass), James Brannigan (guitar) and Mikey Dornan (drums), mainline alluring all-killer hooks and chaotic dissonance, festering with discontent. Their masterful songwriting has soundtracked supermodel and style icon Kate Moss’ collaboration with French designer label Equipment, high speed car chases on Amazon Prime’s Grand Tour and Sky Sports Formula 1, and mammoth sporting events such as UEFA Champions League.
Fascinated with life beyond their hometown of Coatbridge, Tijuana Bibles‘ unique alchemy and prescribing charisma has charmed audiences around the world, making for an impressive touring history. Holding their own on support slots with Twin Atlantic and Clutch, their two-night residency at Glasgow’s King Tuts Wah Wah Hut became infamous and soon, the four-piece were welcome faces in the dark basements venues of Berlin, Paris and Poznan. Festival appearances, punctuated by guerrilla gigs on the streets of their travels, include Reading & Leeds, Isle Of Wight, Spain’s Kutxa Kultur, Germany’s Reeperbahn and Austin, Texas’ SXSW.
Receiving rave reviews from the likes of NME, BBC, and Clash, Tijuana Bibles have captivated global airwaves with radio plays from BBC Radio 1 (UK), Radio 3 (Spain), NPR member stations including KEXP and KCRW (US) and Mexico’s biggest rock radio station IBERO 909.
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