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Big Boy Bloater & The LiMiTs Announce New Album ‘Pills’ 15 juni 2018

www.mascotlabelgroup.combogboyblaterpils2018Big Boy Bloater & The LiMiTs Announce New Album ‘Pills’
Provogue/Mascot Label Group
Released: 15th June 2018


Big Boy Bloater & The LiMiTs will be releasing their brand new album Pills on 15th June 2018 via Provogue/Mascot Label Group.

Following on from 2016’s Luxury Hobo, Surrey born Bloater re-focusses himself and Pills is a reflection of him having a clearer head. “I guess a lot of stuff happened on the Luxury Hobo tour. Maybe after the depression, my minds a bit more open and turned on to things, so I have observed more.”

Recorded in December 2017 with producer Adam Whalley, the band trimmed down to a power trio of Big Boy Bloater (Vocals/Guitar), Matt Cowley (Drums) and Steven Oates (Bass) for the new album and it kicks off with the rip-roaring title track Pills, an extension from the previous album and highlights the constant need for pills today but has a sinister edge.  “I think the sinister side to it is the pharmaceutical companies want you to take these drugs and they want you to keep on thinking you’re ill so they can sell you tablets. It’s gonna get to the point where you’re taking anti-biotics for everything, eventually they won’t work and we’re all gonna die from a super flu.”

The album continues with the autobiographical Friday Night’s Alright For Drinking and into the bleakly observant feet-moving Saturday Night Desperation Shuffle gliding seamlessly on to the gloriously poppy Stop Stringing Me Along which tells the tale of cigar-smoking scoundrels who promise the moon and to make you a million dollars, but ultimately, nothing happens. The angry undertones are masked by the candy coated exterior. “I’ll either write autobiographical or invent these characters, and because you can do so much more with them, anything’s possible.  You can make them as outrageous as you want, I like to blur the line between the two” he explains.

A lover of all things horror, especially Amicus and Hammer Horror, there are always nods towards the ominous or outlandish. If Luxury Hobo’s, It Came Outta the Swamp was B-Movie then Unnaturally Charming is more Hitchcock.  More sinister tales weave themselves into place on the beautifully juxtaposed Oops Sorry and the Tom Waits-esque Mouse Organ

She Didn’t Even Buy A Ticket follows a real incident. “It happened at a gig,” he remembers. “Someone actually gate-crashed looking for her husband, who was out on a date with another woman.” The story didn’t end there, at a later show he was talking to the audience about his new songs when, at the end of the night, two people came up to him and said, ‘that couple you talked about, that was us’. “Did I feel red faced that night” he laughs.

In the finale, we find out about what happened to our friend the Swamp Monster from Luxury Hobo on the beautifully poignant Ukulele strummed album closer A Life Full of Debt.


Big Boy Bloater and The LiMiTs are:

Big Boy Bloater – Vocals/Guitar
Matt Cowley - Drums
Steven Oates - Bass


      TRACKLIST
1.    Pills
2.    Friday Night's Alright For Drinking
3.    The Saturday Night Desperation Shuffle
4.    Stop Stringing Me Along
5.    Unnaturally Charming
6.    Slackers Paradise
7.    Mouse Organ
8.    Oops Sorry
9.    She Didn't Even Buy A Ticket
10.    This Ain't Rufus
11.    The Digital Number Of The Beast
12.    A Life Full Of Debt

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