Announced: Lifeguard – ‘Ultra Violence’

Early next year, Lifeguard will release a new 7” maxi single, ‘Ultra Violence’ / ‘Appetite’. Recorded at the band’s rehearsal space / studio, the music continues the unstable ethos of this year’s much-loved debut album Ripped and Torn – alternating high-velocity punk-energies with surreal dub-inflected interludes. The new single ‘Ultra Violence’ is out now.

The physical 7” is available to pre-order via Matador Direct through Tuesday, January 13th. A digital release will follow.

Lifeguard on ‘Ultra Violence’ / ‘Appetite’:

Recorded in Lifeguard’s Stulogulo, newly equipped with actually terrifying faces and friendly heroine carpet, plugged straight into the 8-track machine with the aid of the Dub soldiers, dirty mixing pots and Echoplexes, Lifeguard deliver these 11 tracks in under 15 minutes; 7 inches of LP-oriented fast and automatic music free from lingering, processing, over-thinking, or otherwise staving off release. The fully deterritorialized Ripped and Torn; the ripping and tearing of the band-aid.

This dub-abrasion Maxi-single is Lithographed for the new generation of cylinders. A thin Round wax prism carries that 30-second-torch of what shan’t be considered afterthoughts, rather deliberate bursts scaffolding: ULTRA VIOLENCE and APPETITE.

Out now on Matador Records, Ripped and Torn is Lifeguard’s eagerly awaited debut album. The trio have now been making music together since they were in high school, nearly a quarter of their lives. Noisy and immediate, cryptic but heartfelt, they draw inspiration from punk, dub, power-pop and experimental sounds, and bring them all together in explosive cacophony.

Stream / download ‘Ultra Violence’ here.
Listen / purchase Ripped and Torn here.