Brighton UK punks The Bar Stool Preachers have announced their new EP ‘Below The Static’, which features reimagined versions of songs from the bands 2022 album ‘Above The Static’. The EP is out 13th September 2024 via Pure Noise Records.
Speaking about the new EP the band said: “For this release, we really wanted to highlight how good the songwriting was. We were stoked with how well the album went down but we really wanted to expose some of the more vulnerable elements and fuck with the format a bit. To hear such strong female vocals, and having heavy guitar riffs on cellos/violins etc. really got us excited about these songs again. Some of the versions are stripped right back to just a voice and one instrument. It’s the band like you’ve never heard it before, and really breathes a different life into the songs.”
To celebrate the announcement The Bar Stool Preachers have released a video for new single, ‘Call Me On The Way Home (Reimagined)’. Adding about new single the band said: “‘Call Me On The Way Home’ is a really vulnerable, brutal song, so it kind of lends itself to opening right up. This version is just piano and voices, and it really drives home the message of loneliness and the need for people to stick up for one another. Sometimes a song’s message doesn’t need all the trimmings and 5 guitar lines.”
‘Below The Static’ tracklist:
01. Doorstep (Reimagined)
02. Call Me on the Way Home (Reimagined)
03. Flatlined (Reimagined)
04. All Turned Blue (Reimagined)
05. Laptop (Reimagined)
06. Don’t Die Today (Reimagined)