Piroshka preview second album with new single "V.O."

After announcing Love Drips And Gathers with the lead cut "Scratching At The Lid" in April, Piroshka, the supergroup made up of Miki Berenyi (formerly of Lush), former Moose guitarist KJ McKillop, former Elastica drummer Justin Welch and Modern English bassist Mick Conroy, have unveiled new single "V.O.".

Berenyi says of the new song, which is a tribute to the late 4AD art director Vaughan Oliver, "I wrote this originally as an instrumental but the rest of the band convinced me to put a vocal on it. The lyrics are snapshot snippets of Vaughan Oliver’s funeral in January 2020 - lines from the speeches, fleeting impressions of the day. I'm getting to the age where the people I grew up with are dying and I find funerals a comfort in the sadness, formal but emotional, a celebration of a life, a space for the living to reconnect."

Love Drips And Gathers will follow the supergroup's 2019 debut album Brickbat, and got its title from a line taken from Dylan Thomas' The force that through the green fuse drives the flower poem, and is, according to a press release, "inspired by love, family, belonging, memory."

Berenyi says, "If Brickbat was our Britpop album, then Love Drips And Gathers is shoegaze! It wasn’t intentional; we just wanted a different focus. I’ve always seen debut albums as capturing a band’s first moments, when you really have momentum, and then the second album is the chance for a more thoughtful approach."

Conroy adds, "Brickbat was a classic first album; noisy and raucous. On Love Drips And Gathers, we’ve calmed down and explored sounds, and space."