Tunng share new single "Scared to Death"

"Scared to Death" lands after previous outings "Death is the New Sex" and "A Million Colours", and is inspired by lyricist Sam Genders' relationship with "life, death, fear and acceptance and how my relationship to those four things has shifted in recent years."

Genders continues, "On one hand I'm hugely drawn to rational thought and scientific knowledge as a way to solve problems and navigate life. On the other hand, I only seem to make real progress when I accept how little I know and really embrace that unknowing. Maybe the unknowing helps me deal with life's contradictions? I'm unafraid of being dead but afraid to die. Life scares the crap out of me and yet I love life so much."

He adds, "Trying to make intellectual sense of the huge range of positive and negative feelings I have about life and death doesn't always seem possible. Accepting the flow of experience however, without trying to understand it, does sometimes seem to work for me and make it all more manageable."

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."