Joanna Gruesome detail new LP Peanut Butter and unleash first taster "Last Year"

The record is reportedly set to feature "hooks, traces of nut and elements of jangle pop, British hardcore punk, atonal music, screaming and drone organs... [it's] a marriage of radical politics with peanut butter spread". The first cut, "Last Year", is "a song about experiencing tragedy and the occult in a water park,"

Songwriter Owen Williams explains their initial plans for the album:

“We tried to make it shorter, more economical and attempted to pack as many hooks and screams in as quickly possible in order to avoid short changing the consumer or wasting her/his/their time. Lyrically it’s more obtuse and surreal but also attempts to mock trad masculine rock themes whenever things do get more lucid. But sometimes musically we embrace them by doing embarrassing guitar solos. I'm not sure how much else I'm at liberty to say but one thing I will disclose is that the record is a response to threats posed by rival groups."

Once more they've enlisted the help of Hookworm's MJ on production duties. Peanut Butter will drop 11 May on Fortuna POP!; it follows Weird Sister, which won last year's Welsh Music Prize.

Stream taster-track "Last Year" below, and then check out the LP's tracklist and upcoming tour dates after.

Tracklist:

1. Last Year
2. Jamie (Luvver)
3. Honestly Do Yr Worst
4. There Is No Function Stacy
5. Crayon
6. I Don't Wanna Relax
7. Jerome (Liar)
8. Separate Bedrooms
9. Psykick Espionage
10. Hey! I Wanna Be Yr Best Friend

April

17, Islington Mill, Manchester
18, Stereo, Glasgow
23, Scala London

May

2, Live at Leeds
3, The Haunt, Brighton

September

4-6, End of the Road Festival