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Skinny Pelembe announces new album
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 1 March 2023
Skinny Pelembe has announced that he will release new album ‘Hardly The Same Snake’ this spring. Alongside the announcement comes new single ‘Don’t Be Another’.
“New life and the end of it”, he says of the inspiration for the new track. “You could find a place to hide behind your palms, eyes shut, digging out the past, like some lost scavenger. Or, you might find yourself in a better place if you ‘straighten out your spine, shoot for something good, promise you won’t cry, and be the ties that bind’”.
On writing of the song, he adds: “I’d actually just finished the album the night before, me and my manager zoomed around London blasting it out and he suggested I try and write a track for another bigger artist. Why not?”
“Anyway, got dropped off at home, got the Gretsch out, put pen to paper”, he goes on. “20 minutes later it was fucking written! Verses, chorus, bridge, all of it. Fell right out the sky. Easy. Way too easy. And too good to share. Like a Terry’s Chocolate Orange. One of the best songs I’ve written so far. Fuck giving this one to anyone else!”
Speaking about how sound has changed on the new album, he concludes: “I never considered myself a singer before now. This album is what I would have created first time round had I rated my own voice”.
‘Hardly The Same Snake’ is out on 28 Apr. Listen to ‘Don’t Be Another’ here:
