Flamingods announce their fifth studio album Head of Pomegranate

The brand new single "Gutterball" – which follows "Dreams (On The Strip)" released earlier this year – explores political dissatisfaction through surrealist lyricism. Rasool explains: “"Gutterball" came to be simply by us wanting to create a Middle Eastern inspired punk/new wave track that would kill when we played it live. We hooked up our Turkish Saz guitar to a tonne of fuzz and looped distorted bass and synthesisers over Sam’s repetitively tight beats. I wanted to mess around with political/satirical themes for the song, looking to protests and revolution for inspiration.. The mantra of the song is ‘Spit it out’ - if something is rotten you don’t swallow it.”

Coinciding with the new release, Flamingods announce a UK tour in November, including a date at Scala in London.

Flamingods' fifth studio album, Head of Pomegranate, was recorded in Atlanta with Grammy award-winning producer Ben H. Allen (Animal Collective, Deerhunter, M.I.A). The album marks their first since 2019's Levitation.

The album title comes from the Arabic translation of Ras Rumman رأس الرمان; the name of the Bahraini village where frontperson Kamal Rasool’s late father grew up, a place where pomegranates were once cultivated. Kamal lost his dad to COVID-19 during the writing process, which had a notable impact on the LP’s direction

As Rasool reflects: “By the end of our last album campaign, we were very close to throwing in the towel. Making this album felt a bit like our redemption moment. It helped us through a lot – including my grieving process. Getting to work with Ben was a dream come true, we grew up listening to records he made. It felt like he was the missing piece we had been looking for.”

Tracklist:

1. Dreams (On The Strip)
2. Adana
3. The Dip
4. Dirty Money
5. Gutterball
6. Born Lucky
7. Volta Rocket
8. Tall Glass
9. Perfumed Garden
10. Eastern Cowboys
11. Head of Pomegranate