KEG Release New Single ‘Skybather’
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Debut Album Fun’s Over Released 14th March 2025 via Alcopop! Records
Preorder now - https://shor.by/FunsOver
Additional Live Dates Announced
IVW Tour + March 2025 Instore Album Tour Dates On Sale Now
Tickets on sale now - https://shor.by/FunsOver
London-based collective KEG are delighted to reveal their new single ‘Skybather’, set for release on 21st January 2025 via Alcopop! Records.
A slow-tempo smoothie of a single that drips with laconic vocals and swagger before opening up into a euphoric crescendo, ‘Skybather’ brings to mind lo-fi art-rock greats like Spoon, EELS and Cake, all whilst retaining the band’s signature British sound.
Commenting on the track, the band said: “One simply must bathe as much as possible. Cleanse the day’s woes in lavender and enter your mind palace. All of Keg are huge bathers, I think maybe we were all from Budapest in a past life. Those guys have it all sorted, sausages and baths. This is our tribute to the act, may all of your baths be blessed!”
The new single is another cracking cut from the outfit’s highly anticipated debut album Fun’s Over, set for release 14th March 2025 via Alcopop! Records, and follows on from previously released buoyant lead single ‘Sate The Worm’ and the wonky synth lurch of follow up single ‘I’d Fly Tip For You’.
The album is available to preorder now, with the record available on CD and special Dinked vinyl edition in midnight blue/clown red galaxy swirl, complete with a fully signed linograph print by Joel Whitaker based on a painting by singer Albert, with a cut out and keep mask of Frank, the band's undeniable #1 heartthrob and guitarist.
Embarking on an Independent Venue Week tour in Jan/Feb 2025, with a run of March 2025 instore tour dates around the record, the band have also just announced further UK/EU live dates (see below for listings) with tickets available now for all shows from the album preorder link at: https://shor.by/FunsOver
Their forthcoming debut album Fun’s Over represents the culmination of KEG's initial forays into life, and as such leaps all over—from the melodic to the demented with all the enthusiasm of a very lively bean salad. Sharp angling guitarwork that would be at home both on a Fugazi or a Wilco record. Cascading synths and drums, pepperings of trombone and lyrics which invite you into a baffled man's brain full of joy and anxiety.
Contrary to their previous releases, the album takes its time, allowing Keg to showcase the orchestral leanings of the band, melding textures and battering-ram rhythms, whilst always managing to hone their carefully manipulated balance of chaos and order.
Recorded between the studio and home, Keg have refined their DIY approach this time around, producing the record themselves with engineering help from Pozi’s Toby Burroughs and mixed by Connor Simpkins.
Offsetting the braggadocious shredding and bombastic instrumentation the lyrics on the album take a much less cocksure approach—beckoning you into a yearning for suburban living, slightly embarrassing admissions of inadequacy, the feeling of creative failure freeing the imagination, taking pleasure in the mundanity of an unsure mind, bathing for freedom, and just a couple simple love songs.
Lead single ‘Sate The Worm’ was released in September 2024, following on from standalone single ‘Michael Phelps’ released earlier this year, and picked up a flurry of excitement from long-term supporters at DIY Magazine, The Line Of Best Fit, CLUNK Magazine, God Is In The TV Zine, BBC 6music, Radio X and more.
The band appeared at Mutations Festival in Brighton last year and rounded off 2024 supporting rising sensation Nuha Ruby Ra, before finishing up with their own London headline date.
KEG release their anxiously awaited debut album Fun’s Over on 14th March 2025 via Alcopop! Records
KEG Live Dates:
27th Jan Huddersfield The Parish
28th Jan Birmingham HH2
29th Jan Sheffield Sydney and Matilda
30th Jan Portsmouth Edge of the Wedge
31st Jan Norwich Voodoo Daddys
2nd Feb Ramsgate Music Hall
13th March London Lexington
14th March Kingston Beggars Banquet
15th March Southsea Pie and Vinyl
16th March Oxford Truck Records
17th March Bury Wax and Beans
18th March Liverpool Jacaranda
19th March York Fulford Arms
20th March Leeds Records Jumbo
29th March Bristol Ritual Union
19th April Rotterdam MOMO Festival
20th April Brussels Botanique
4th May Blandford Teddy Rocks
5th May Deventer In Vredes Naam Festival
6th May Cologne Blue Shell
7th May Berlin Lark
9th May Dijon La vapour
14th May Paris Supersonic
25th July Oxford TRUCK Festival
Tickets on sale now: https://shor.by/FunsOver
Fun’s Over album tracklist:
1. Photo Day
2. Father Charles
3. I'd Fly Tip for You
4. Strangers
5. Plain Words
6. St. Michael
7. Mr and Mrs Raleigh
8. Giving Up Fishing
9. Sate The Worm
10. Skybather
11. Ferryman
12. Bobby
13. Kayaking
KEG online:
https://linktr.ee/kegband
https://www.thebandkeg.com
https://www.instagram.com/thebandkeg
https://www.facebook.com/kegbandboys
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Erupting from a frenzied passion for the ‘song’, Keg toe a fine line between the angular throb of contemporary post-rock sensibilities and a timeless necessity for harmony and meticulous songwriting. Taking hints and tips from their forebears Minutemen, Fugazi and Radio 4 the band intend to confound genre, but mainly stick to the rock area.
Armed with 7 musicians, Keg create a frantic chaotic energy. Barbed guitars, wonky synth lines, peppered with trombone, and a glimpse into a confused man's brain. The band rarely rest easy on one approach, equally happy to explore a college rock sound as a hardcore one. It's this indecision which leads Keg to continue to push their sound further, delving into ambient landscapes and melodic songwriting.
Forming in Brighton in 2019, the band went on to release two critically acclaimed EPs Assembly (2021) and Girders (2022), with standalone singles ‘Quip Quash’ (2023) and ‘Michael Phelps’ (2024) also helping them garner attention from Loud and Quiet, DIY, CLASH, NME, DORK, So Young and support from BBC 6music and Radio X.
