Susie Long
Susie (she/her) is a freelance writer from Cornwall. She is based in Bristol, where she is studying for her Masters in Journalism.
She loves finding new music, and can often be found at obscure venues in Bristol looking for the next thing that makes her tick, whether it’s dad rock, indie folk, or punk.
Welsh indie-punk band Panic Shack announce the upcoming release of their self-titled debut album with new single ‘Girl Band Starter Pack
With the release of their new single ‘Girl Band Starter Pack,’ Welsh punk band Panic Shack have announced the release of their long-awaited debut album ‘Panic Shack,’ out on 18th July via Brace Yourself Records.
After taking the punk world by storm with their unapologetic, empowering and riotous tracks, the album is set to expand the band’s artistic territory, aiming to “span the full range of the feminine experience.”
This debut studio album was initially teased with the release of the single ‘Gok Wan’ in March, which provided a critical commentary into diet culture and tabloids of the 2000s.
Where ‘Gok Wan’ is parodic and laced with a clever sarcastic edge, the band’s newest release, ‘Girl Band Starter Pack’, is an optimistic, raving look into female friendships and the joys of the ‘girl group’. The track, prefaced with chatter and clinking glasses and recorded in the garden of an Amyl & The Sniffers gig, makes you want to sit in the sun with your mates and get up to some good mischief.
The band have said that they want to effectively remove the themes of romance and sex from their upcoming album. Instead, they hope that ‘Panic Shack‘ will serve as a celebration of friendship and the bond between the band members.
Panic Shack promise “the sonic equivalent to a coming-of-age film unfolding over a single night … beginning by approaching a bar and ending with an impassioned speech at sunrise about how much you love your friends.”
If these first two singles are anything to go by, then the band’s upcoming album will more than deliver on this promise.
Debut album ‘Panic Shack’ is out on 18th July via Brace Yourself Records.
Watch/Listen to ‘Girl Band Starter Pack’ here:
Catch Panic Shack at the following:
May 6th | Brighton, UK – Patterns [sold out]
May 8th | Birmingham, UK – The Castle & Falcon
May 9th | Wrexham, UK – FOCUS Wales
May 10th | Leeds, UK – The Wardrobe
May 11th | Newcastle, UK – Cluny
May 13th | Glasgow, UK – King Tuts Wah Wah Hut [sold out]
May 14th | Sheffield, UK – Yellow Arch Studios [sold out]
May 15th | Liverpool, UK – Arts Club
May 16th | Manchester, UK – Band on the Wall [sold out]
May 18th | Oxford, UK – The Bullingdon
May 19th | Southampton, UK – Papillon
May 20th | Milton Keynes, UK – Craufurd Arms
May 22nd | Bristol, UK – Thekla [sold out]
May 23rd | Port Talbot, UK – In It Together Festival
May 25th | Newport, UK – Corn Exchange
May 28th | London, UK – The Garage
July 10th | Cheltenham, UK – 2000 Trees Festival
July 18th | Portishead, UK – Homestead Festival
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