Debut Album “Awful Truth” Out On 28th June Via UNFD
"Fancy" is the new single from Scottish four-piece Woes, which drops today. It’s the third single from their hotly-anticipated debut album "Awful Truth" - out 28th Juneon UNFD. Click here to watch the new video for "Fancy" and here to pre-order"Awful Truth".
“'Fancy' is a song about when you’re first getting to know someone and you’re into them, but you have to do a bit of work to convince them to take a chance on you”, explains vocalist DJ. “It’s a fun, upbeat song about a feeling everyone can understand. It’s one of the most fun, accessible songs on the record, but there’s a TON of musicality going on underneath, there are some great riffs, there’s an insane bass line hiding in the first verse, some big fills. But everything contributes to making an upbeat song that you could jump around to at a festival, I love it”.
"Fancy" follows previous singles "Money Shoe" and "Suburbs", which saw support from BBC Radio 1 Rock Show, Kerrang! Radio and Amazing Radio.
Woes forthcoming debut album sees their sound take flight, blurring the lines between pop punk, hip hop and R&B. “I think it’s the most honest and complete representation of what we want to sound like”, explains vocalist DJ. “It has elements of pop-punk, hip-hop, prog-metal, RnB and flows between them super naturally. We approached with a perspective that matches up more closely with what you would expect from a rapper, rather than a pop-punk band, which gave us some real stand-out lyrics to go along with the music”.
The record is produced by Seb Barlow (Neck Deep, WSTR, Roam) and debuts the addition of guitarist Luke Bovill to the band.
“'Awful Truth' is a record about the realities of the progression of our band over the last 18 months”, explains DJ. “Going from some guys occasionally playing gigs and trying to practice every week to playing a sold out show at Brixton, having people turned away from our Slam Dunk sets because they were full, touring the UK and Europe 5 times in a year".
"And it’s about the duality of that experience. So, on the one hand, we’re doing all these insane things, seeing all of our hard work start to pay off, meeting all these people that love our music. But on the other hand, we’re broke, it’s taking a huge toll on our relationships back home, having to take huge periods of time off work unpaid… Luke had to quit his job at one point, no savings, no real backup plan. And the record talks about both sides of the coin, we were lucky in a sense that we were writing and recording at the same time - it’s a real look into making your first record. The stress, the pressure, but then the moments of accomplishment that make it worthwhile”.