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Skinny Lister announce new album and Leeds date

Batten down the hatches ladies and gentlemen, for tempestuous folk-punk renegades – SKINNY LISTER – are back with an explosive new single 38 Minutes.

Take it as a forewarning, for the London sextet today also lay out the incendiary plans for their long-awaited fourth studio album The Story Is…, a record set to drop from the Xtra Mile Recordings silo on 1st March 2019.

Lead single 38 Minutes is a tense new track inspired by a ballistic missile alert triggered in Hawaii at the beginning of 2018. For a terrifying 38 minutes officials led the populous of the volcanic island to believe that the end was nigh. As sirens wailed and panic prevailed, the locals were starkly informed: This Is Not A Drill…

But it was of course, just that. Whilst it might not go down as a red letter day for the Hawaiian authorities, Skinny Lister fans can rejoice as this episode arrives transformed some months later into an ebullient new single 38 Minutes and the first to emerge of many stories that make up their imaginative new album The Story Is…

If Skinny Lister’s intriguingly titled new album sounds like something of pick’n’mix of assorted tales ready to share with you, well that’s because it is. A loosely-based concept album, The Story Is… anthologises a series of personal vignettes inspired by a chaotic few years for the band and binds them into 14 tracks of unmistakably Skinny-sounding rock’n’roll.

Gather-in close and lend your ears as Skinny Lister rifle through The Story Is… and pull out: scorched stories of aggravated arsonists (Artist Arsonist), rib-tickling tales of regretful re-fuellings (Diesel Vehicle), and even polemic pleas inspired by some of life’s hardest lessons (Stop & Breathe).

Produced and mixed by the highly capable Barny Barnicott (Arctic Monkeys, The Enemy, The Temper Trap), The Story is… is released via Xtra Mile Recordings on 1st March 2019.

Don’t miss your chance to become part of their latest adventures as the band embark on a two-leg UK tour, plus fix dates in Germany, Czech Republic, Switzerland, France, Holland and Belgium throughout the spring.

The band will perform at The Key Club in Leeds on May 8th.