Opus Kink return today with a brand new single, "I'm A Pretty Showboy". The track comes with an equally hellish music video (dir. Maisy Banks) rich in country gothic imagery, dark shadows, and grim reflections of the punkish underworld.
Watch/listen to "I'm A Pretty Showboy" below:
"This, as always, is a song about emptiness and the celebration of making your own meaning, but it’s also about being gorgeous, hideously gorgeous, a self-made person with a mind like a weeping cyst," wrote the band on social media.
Playing with the grotesque lyrics that gnarl around the punk flairs of the music, the band continued, "It’s about wanting your milk, wanting your honey, even if you’re scum and don’t deserve a taste."
Frontman Angus Rogers added in a press release,
"Here is our song, rock and roll music for the empty and stunning. A song about contempt, appetite, impotence and self-preservation through gyration. Enjoy superficially with your body and send the reeling mind on to hell! There is a world in which blues-riff basslines, big-band horns, Black Sabbath breakdowns, Samuel Beckett, breakbeat, and trad folk refrains live happily together, perhaps not the one we live in, yet here we are."
Rogers teased at incoming new music as well, saying: "The first song recorded of what might be considered a ‘collection’ of some form. Stay with us now. On me, sailors!”
My Eyes, Brother!, the second and most recent studio album by Opus Kink, was released 2023 via Hideous Mink Recordings.
Opus Kink recently spearheaded the A Hideous Collective compilation record, a physical-only collection of songs written by independent singer-songwriters in The UK. The double-album — which began with Opus Kink's English punk cover of Léo Ferré's "Thank You Satan" — aimed to raise money and bring awareness to Music Venue Trust and the UK Artist Touring Fund, advocacy groups focused on the protection and growth of grassroots venues.
The band will also be performing a headline gig at London's Electric Ballroom on November 7. Tickets are available now.
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