‘Sick Fu*k’ by Singapore Sling
Exclusive video premiere of ‘Sick Fuck’ by Singapore Sling from the Reykjavík-based project’s incoming eleventh album, ‘Good Sick Fun’, which is due out September 25th via Fuzz Club. An invitation to “rejoice in doing wrong”, the record is the latest evolution in Singapore Sling’s nihilistic rock’n’roll sound and pools together the staple guitar noise and drum machine, with elements of goth, dub and big-band jazz.
Reykjavík maverick Henrik Björnsson is due to release ‘Good Sick Fun’, his eleventh album under the Singapore Sling project, on September 25th via Fuzz Club. Inspired by goth-rock, dub and big-band jazz on top of the usual fuzzed-out rock’n’roll touchstones that are seared into Henrik’s work, the latest Singapore Sling full-length is as perversely hedonistic as they come – and that’s not without competition by any means. Following the recent release of first single ‘Sickin’ Street’, Henrik is today sharing ‘Sick Fuck’, a bare-bones cut of noise-punk guitars, minimalist drum-machine and dour, sinister vocals.
Arriving off the back of the 2019 ‘Killer Classics’ LP, Henrik says of the new album: “Old rock’n’roll is the main influence on this record, as on most of my records. When I release a record it means rock’n’roll has saved my life, my mind and my soul once again. And it does that quite frequently. Sometimes I start running astray, getting sucked into pointless garbage and thinking it actually matters. Then I realize that it’s absolute garbage and that nothing matters but rock’n’roll. Then I make a record.”
He continues: “I started recording this record in February. After rediscovering ‘Bird-doggin’’ by Gene Vincent I knew just what to do. Early Sisters of Mercy and dub have also influenced these last two records, and discovering Cecil Taylor and rediscovering my love of big band jazz might have had an influence as well.” An invitation to “rejoice in doing wrong”, in Henrik’s own words, ‘Good Sick Fun’ is the latest morbid and characteristically-depraved addition to a back-catalogue spanning nearly two decades from the cult Icelandic band.
‘Good Sick Fun’ is available here!
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