Share new single ‘Garden Of England’, from their new album Beware Believers, out 1st April 2022 via Bad Vibrations Records!
Following breakout tracks ‘Slowly Separate’, and ‘Room 156’, this is another insight into the summer of 2019 when the album was written. Brexit was dominating the news and every conversation, and with it came lies from public figures, a country being divided, and frustration at what England was turning into.
Singer James Cox explains,
"This is straight-up our Brexit anthem. Don’t get me wrong, I couldn't care less which way you voted, your vote, your choice. I just hated how much Brexit had become so ingrained in our day to day life. First thing I'd hear about when I woke up and the last thing I’d read before I went to sleep at night. It became all people spoke about. ‘Garden of England’ is more of a comment about the divisiveness it caused, splitting families, friends, widening the north-south divide and empowering nationalism. Public figures' ability to lie publicly and not be held accountable, it's just dangerous dog-whistle politics that doesn't belong in the UK."
The video was directed by Joe Hoffman (Gucci, Nike) and Phoebe May and tells the story of the ‘Journeyman’ and his daughter in Kent aka the Garden Of England, where he explains:
“When chatting with a boxer mate one day, he mentioned a friend at his club who was a career ‘Journeyman’. He explained this was a boxer who was not skilled enough to go pro, but was all the same good enough to fight around that level. The Journeyman makes a career by being paid, often weekly, to lose fights (unbeknownst to many of the crowd). When up-and-coming boxers are looking to progress to the next stage of their career, they need an unbroken streak of say 12 wins. When they are nearing this streak after maybe 10 wins, the coach often doesn’t want to risk them losing at this point so they will employ a Journeyman to put on a good show, and ultimately lose the fight.”
Hoffman continues,