White Colour

Tracklist:

1. Bored Animal
2. Marc-Andre Lclerc
3. Old Romantic
4. Johnny Got No Beef
5. Derek E. Fudge
6. Downertown
7. 12-12-21
8. Weirdo In The Park
9. The Sadness Of King Kong
10. I Fly Planes Into Hurricanes
11. Gin and Fog

Following last years explosive, no frills self-titled debut album, in keeping with the fast-paced punk rock spirit thats His Lordships creed, today the potent two-piece return with new single I Fly Planes Into Hurricanes.

Clocking in at just a little over two minutes, I Fly Planes Into Hurricanes is a fiery single, combining hotrodding riffs with shambolic drums and fuzzed-out guitar. Hurtling along at breakneck speed, its a taster of what to expect from the bands second album Bored Animal, which will spring from the traps on 20 June.

Conceived and recorded live in under two weeks at Edwyn Collins studio in the Highlands of Scotland, with engineer Sean Reed and mixed by David Wrench (Manic Street Preachers, Lets Eat Grandma, Blur, Baxter Dury), for Bored Animal His Lordship decided to streamline their soundforgoing things like harmonies, a rockabilly influence, and songs over four minutes longand didnt worry about making the music perfect.

The resultant album crams multiple ideas into its 11 concise songs. On opening title track, clanging guitars and drums rattle the speakers before the song takes off like a screaming bottle rocket.

From there, guitarist/vocalist James Walbourne and drummer Kris Sonne race through ferocious songs with clever lyrics, which lean into scorching rock n roll (the abrasive Old Romantic, needling Downertown), distorted punk (the ramshackle Marc-Andre Lclerc), tornadic noise rock (Weirdo in the Park), throttling garage-blues riffs and feral howls (sub-three-minute The Sadness of King Kong), and even psychedelic fantasias (Derek E. Fudge).

As with their debut, Bored Animal makes room for an instrumental (the album-closing Western noir Gin and Fog) and Sonne contributes lead vocals to a track (the aforementioned Derek E. Fudge).

And while Bored Animals songs take cues from vintage rock n roll, the album is decidedly not a retro rehash or homage to the past. When His Lordship make music, their mighty, rambunctious roar emerges naturally, realising that to leave something thats a mistake is where the magic is.

More than anything, His Lordship embrace the idea everything is fleeting, so the best way to live and make music is to seize the day, trust their instincts and aim to deliver on the promise of early rocknroll: in and at em songs which do not outstay their welcome, just leave the listener viscerally thrilled, confused and hungry for more. Bored Animal delivers on that promise.