Crows return with new single "Bored" and announce new album, Reason Enough

Singer James Cox says on the new track, "Like so many musicians today, being off album cycle means no touring, which in turn means looking for more day-to-day work options to make ends meet. We wrote ‘Reason Enough’ in a period like this when we were all simultaneously working day jobs to pay the bills. And when we’re not touring, I become way more aware of, and susceptible to, the news cycle. Being bombarded by constant doom and gloom can create a real despondent maelstrom. With what seemed like no hope for respite, or any change to my routine whatsoever, the song ‘Bored’ came out of that cycle of waking up and not being able to shake the feeling of wanting to bang your forehead against a brick wall."

To celebrate the release of "Bored", Crows will perform a special intimate show at London’s Third Man Records this Thursday (4 July). They have also announced a UK/EU this October/November, with shows in Leeds, Brighton, Glasgow, Manchester, London, Copenhagen, Paris, Berlin, and more.

Reason Enough is their third album, and is the one the band have taken the longest to write – partly because they had to fit the exercise around working full-time jobs, but also because of the freedom that was afforded to them around this specific project. For the occasion, James Cox (vocals), Steve Goddard (guitar), Jith Amarasinghe (bass) and Sam Lister (drums), swapped their usual rehearsal space, a small studio in Homerton, East London, for the cavernous walls of a “weird little studio” – as Goddard puts it – in Stroud, Gloucestershire. More specifically, a former Catholic church and convent. The band parked themselves up in the church’s crypt, which was more conducive to inspiring the foundations for Reason Enough.

“We’re doing the same thing, but a lot better,” Cox says. “This is Crows in high definition.”

Tracklist:

1. Reason Enough
2. Bored
3. Is It Better
4. Vision Of Me
5. Land Of The Rose
6. Every Day Of The Year
7. Lie To Me
8. Living On My Knees
9. Silhouettes
10. D-Gent