MAMMOTH PENGUINS Reflect On Challenges Facing Musicians On New Single ‘Flyers’ Out Now
MAMMOTH PENGUINS Reflect On Challenges Facing Musicians On New Single ‘Flyers’ Released 10th April 2024
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Cambridge Indiepop Trio’s New Album Here
Released 3rd May 2024 via Fika Recordings
Preorder - https://fikarecordings.bandcamp.com/album/here
Announced For Indiefjord 2024 + May 2024 UK Tour Dates On Sale Now
Following recent packed slots at Indiepop All-dayer in Leicester and Wales Goes Pop Festival, Cambridge indie pop trio Mammoth Penguins are pleased to reveal their new single ‘Flyers’ set for release on 10th April 2024.
The single is the latest to be taken from their forthcoming new album Here set for release on 3rd May 2024 via Fika Recordings.
A typically heart-on-sleeve missive from guitarist/vocalist and songwriter Emma Kupa (ex Standard Fare), ‘Flyers’ is a cuttingly honest reflection on the ups and down of life as an independent musician, charting the highs and lows of what can at times be a brutally difficult life path, but also one not without its own rewards.
Commenting on the track, Kupa says: “I was going through some old boxes and came across a load of old papers from gigs—posters, flyers and set lists. The flyers and posters were often really beautiful but then I also remembered how few people were there at the time and what a shame that was. All that effort by the promoters and the bands. I then started thinking about the other hard bits. It’s a slog being in a band; I really don’t understand why we kept going for years without anyone else encouraging us, but we did. In that moment I picked up my guitar and wrote and sang this song with a simple few chords, then when I took it to the band it became this angular power punk song.”
‘Flyers’ follows on from lead single ‘SPECIES’ released earlier this year, and follow up ‘Everything That I Write’, which picked up spins from Mark Riley and Gideon Coe at BBC 6music and KEXP, with an early flurry of excitement for the band’s return from VISIONS Magazine, Get In Her Ears, She Makes Music, The Scene, Distorted Sound, Austin Town Hall, Small Albums and more.
Recorded, edited, and mixed at Sickroom Studios in Norfolk by Owen Turner, the new album was produced by drummer Tom Barden, with string arrangements, cello and violin on 'Here' and 'Success' by Mary Erskine, and mastered by Joe Caithness.
Here leans into the band’s raw pop-punk power-trio sound more than ever, with a deep growl of layered guitars and bursts of percussion and harmony. The songs and artwork explore themes of finding a home for yourself and familiarity with people and places.
Although they return to a classic three-piece sound, Mammoth Penguins weren’t restricted by that palette, adding finishing touches of percussion, extra guitars and backing vocals in short bursts in a garden shed, and also bringing in gorgeous strings to sweeten the title track.
The ‘Penguins have already been hard at work smashing some high-profile support slots in the lead up to the album release, including Allo Darlin’s joyous reunion at Islington Assembly Hall (Oct 2023) and Muncie Girls' last ever London show (Dec 2023).
The band head out on a UK co-headline tour with Broken Chanter in support of the new album in May 2024, with tickets on sale now, and have just been announced for Norway’s Indiefjord Festival 2024.
New album Here is released 3rd May 2024 via Fika Recordings
Mammoth Penguins live:
May 23 - Cambridge - The Blue Moon
May 24 - Rainham - The Oast
May 25 - Coventry - Just Dropped In Records
May 30 - London - The Grace
May 31 - Oxford - Florence Park Community Centre
June 1 - Sheffield - Delicious Clam
July 13 - 14 - Indiefjord (Norway)
Here album tracklist:
SPECIES
I Know The Signs
Flyers
Blue Plaque
Everything That I Write
Here
Nothing And Everything
Help Yourself
Old Friends
Lost Friends
Success
A Plea For Kindness
Mammoth Penguins are:
Vocals and guitars - Emma Kupa
Bass, keys and vocals - Mark Boxall
Drums, percussion and vocals - Tom Barden
Mammoth Penguins online:
https://www.facebook.com/MammothPenguins
https://twitter.com/MammothPenguins
https://www.instagram.com/mammothpenguins
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRH4C-wfYdNwqzLXVprtysQ
https://mammothpenguins.bandcamp.com
Fika Recordings online:
https://fikarecordings.bandcamp.com
https://facebook.com/fikarecordings
https://x.com/fikarecordings
https://instagram.com/fikarecordings.com
https://www.threads.net/@fikarecordings
https://www.youtube.com/fikarecordings
More info:
Mammoth Penguins are a 3 piece indie pop powerhouse, showcasing the songwriting and vocal talents of Emma Kupa (Standard Fare, The Hayman Kupa Band) backed up by the noisiest rhythm section in indie pop, Mark Boxall (bass, keys, vocals) and Tom Barden (drums, percussion, vocals).
Reminiscent of the pop melodies of The Beths, the indie dissonance of Land of Talk, and the guitar forward slacker rock of Weezer, Mammoth Penguins marry heart-ache indie pop with spiky guitars and Kupa’s frank, confessional songwriting.
Following the release of 2019’s big, bold, and confident album There’s No Fight We Can’t Both Win, plus the initial shock of the global pandemic cancelling a trip to SXSW in 2020, the band returned to the studio in the summer of 2021 to start laying down material.
The new record’s sonic palette builds on their first album, Hide and Seek, which was released with the much-loved and sorely missed Fortuna POP! in 2015. The follow-up LP John Doe in 2017 was an ambitious concept album, exploring the feelings of loss and anger at a man who fakes his own death only to return years later, expanding well beyond the 3-piece rock‘n’roll template, with washes of strings, synths and samples.
Their third album, There’s No Fight We Can’t Both Win, was released in April 2019 via Fika Recordings, exploring classic themes of love, loss and conflict (mostly) given a hopeful and optimistic spin that opposition is neither inevitable nor hopeless.
The band have previously seen support from BBC 6music, Radio X, idobi Radio, Brooklyn Vegan, Louder Than War, London in Stereo, Drowned in Sound, Exclaim!, God Is In The TV, and a whole host of blogs and specialist radio shows for their raw and incisive brand of lo-fi pop.
