SCOTTISH art-pop outfit The Vegan Leather burst back last week with the news of a brand new EP titled ‘Furious Not Ominous’ – slated for release on Friday 3rd December.
Described as a “reflection on how they were feeling during lockdown”, the EP is said to feature some of their most urgent and eclectic material to date – completely freed of genre constraints and fuelled by a vital sense of spontaneity and catharsis.
Set to include last year’s ‘Gloaming’ and ‘Sanctum Sound’, as well as the fast and furious ‘Who’s Knocking On My Door’ from earlier this year, ‘Furious Not Ominous’ is being being previewed by one final single called ‘She Don’t.’
Testament to the eclectic and rather unpredictable nature of the nine-track EP, ‘She Don’t’ is completely different from anything we’ve heard from the outfit before as frontman Gianluca Bernacchi unleashes his inner Ian Dury. An examination on toxic masculinity, his sharp and witty monologue is delivered over a bedroom-pop style track – all while retaining the instantly addictive melodies they’ve always excelled in. It’s a fun and refreshing insight into the upcoming project.
Bernacchi said ““I wrote this song one night in September last year. It’s very rare that I get so inspired, the song structured itself. Lyrically I’m talking about the strange behaviours of this guy I used to know, he was so strangely hyper masculine. The words are basically my initial internal reactions to the stories I heard about the way he would act, it freaks me out.”
“I was also going through a big Ian Dury and The Blockheads thing at the point of recording, so that’s definitely seeped in to my vocal delivery. I thought it was a nice way to style the track, singing a song about a man who thinks he’s the big man but not the big man, in the style of a geezer who may or may not have been a big man. I’m definitely not the big man.”
Listen below.
