Confidence Man announce forthcoming album, 3AM (LA LA LA)

Following their last album, 2022’s TILT, Confidence Man’s next club-focused chapter began with the release of 2023’s "On & On (Again)", co-produced with Daniel Avery. They’ve since released underground hits with DJ Seinfeld ("Now U Do") and DJ Boring ("Forever 2 (Crush Mix)"), as well as a remix album (Confidence Man Club Classics Vol 1.).

At first, the band “wanted to dehumanise pop music and make it over the top and ridiculous again,” says Planet. But now they’re bringing those pop sensibilities to classic UK rave. “We wanted to revisit those sounds and then add pop hooks and vocals to them,” she continues. “I feel like that hasn't really been done before, besides The Prodigy.” On 3AM (LA LA LA), Janet Planet, her floppy-haired foil Sugar Bones and instrumentalists Clarence McGuffie and Reggie Goodchild are delving deeper into UK rave sounds of the 90s and 2000s, from trippy acid techno and trance to breakbeat and big beat.

“It’s a fucked up sort of world,” says Sugar Bones of the new Confidence Man universe they’ve created. But most importantly: “It's 3am, it’s never not 3am, and we party all the time.”

3AM (LA LA LA) references what you might call the flow state Confidence Man found when writing and recording the album at Pony Studios in east London, with sessions that would go on all night. Vocals were improvised in the moment, and often captured in the first take. “We pretty much wrote every single song when we were wrecked,” says Planet. “We’d get blasted and stay up till 9am coming up with music, but we noticed that 3am was the hottest time for when we were on it and the best ideas were coming out.”

Tracklist:

1. ⁠WHO KNOWS WHAT YOU'LL FIND?
2. I CAN'T LOSE YOU
3. CONTROL
4. SO WHAT
5. BREAKBEAT
6. SICKO
7. REAL MOVE TOUCH (FEAT SWEETIE IRIE)
8. FAR OUT ⁠
9. JANE
10. SO TRU
11. WRONG IDEA
12. 3AM (LA LA LA)