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Scarlet Rascal fuse the alien with the familiar on "Strange"

01 August 2016, 15:58 | Written by Laurence Day

Scarlet Rascal are debuting "Strange", a raucous, frenetic taste of their upcoming first album.

The four-piece will release their debut, self-titled record next month via Geoff Barrow of Portishead's Invada Records.

"Strange" is a spiny mesh of post-punk and noise-rock, with Talking Heads-esque vocals and pummelling percussion. It's melodic and stuffed with grooves, but it's frequently alienating, with wiry riffs stabbed in at odd angles - Scarlet Rascal refuse to conform on "Strange", forging their own path onwards with their own ideas held close.

Scarlet Rascal is out 30 September via Invada.

Listen to "Strange" below.

Tracklist:

1. Pearl
2. Woland
3. Strange
4. Here I Am
5. Venus
6. Sleep Take Me Down
7. Blood Orange
8. Last Day

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