Crows share new single "Room 156"

"Room 156" follows last month's lead single "Slowly Separate", and is accompanied by a video directed by Angus Gannagé and Cuán Roche.

Lead vocalist James Cox says of the release, "I used to be quite obsessed with true crime, and this song was kind of born out of researching H.H Holmes and the World Trades Hotel in the 1860's where he would murder people staying at his hotel informally called The Murder Castle."

"I also got quite obsessed with a faith healer from the early 1900’s called Reverend Major Jealous Divine and reading transcripts of his old sermons, so this is basically just a weird amalgamation of mad shit I read about," Cox adds.

Beware Believers will follow Crows' 2019 debut album Silver Tongues. The band had already tracked their second album at London's Fish Factory Studios by early 2020, but when the pandemic hit, recording was put on hold.

Cox said last month, "Once we knew Covid was here to stay, we took the first break we’ve taken since we released our first single "Pray" in 2015. Being locked down for three months unable to finish the last bits of the record was very frustrating but it did mean we could come back to the album with fresh ears and make sure it sounded like it should: a true representation of Crows."