Tunng preview DEAD CLUB album with second song "Death is the New Sex"

"Death is the New Sex" lands after last month's lead outing "A Million Colours", and is described by lyricist Sam Genders as a song about "how, by challenging taboos, we might arrive at a place closer to the truth and find ourselves better able to support each other as a result."

He adds, "The song was inspired in part by my conversation with palliative care physician and writer Kathryn Mannix and her wonderful book With The End In Mind. Lyrically the song has clearly been through the Tunng filter. I wrote the words with a fantastical, almost comic book quality in places but it's not flippant. I think these are genuinely important ideas."

DEAD CLUB will follow Tunng's 2019 album This Is Tunng… Magpie Bites and Other Cuts. Earlier this month the band launched their Dead Club Podcast series which is part of their DEAD CLUB project.

The project began after Genders was inspired by Max Porter’s novel Grief is The Thing with Feathers and passed it around the group, resulting in the band discussing the subject thoroughly. Genders says, "When all those things come together that’s what makes it Tunng, and because the subject of death is so powerful for people in different ways, we talked about the kinds of issues it might bring up, that we might need to be sensitive about."

Lindsay adds of the LP, "Trying to turn this whole concept into an album, into music, without it being too sombre and difficult for people to listen to, that’s been the challenge. We wanted it to be colourful and we wanted it to be kind of uplifting. Although some of it's a lot darker than I was imagining it originally, I think it’s a thought-provoking and emotional journey; it doesn’t make me feel sad."