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About the new single, frontman Matt Baty explains, “I’m aware our band sits in a world largely commandeered by bravado, confidence and machoism, but ‘Stitches’ is an expression of vulnerability, paradoxical emotions and those so familiar pangs of anxiety I wrestle with while butting heads with societal expectations and personal struggles.”

"Stitches" follows the release of the first single from the album, "Detroit" which was released last year. The new track is accompanied by an animated video directed by Ben Faircloth, which depicts the band being mutated and mutilated by hideous hybrid fauna across multiple dimensions of nightmares.

Whereas 2023’s Land Of Sleeper was conceived as an immersive headphones experience, Pigs x7 strove for something more directly hostile on Death Hilarious. “We wanted it to be a slap in the face,” grins producer and guitarist Sam Grant.

As for the words, they emerged from a bout of anxiety which derailed Matt Baty’s self-confidence to the extent that he wondered whether he’d be able to write any lyrics again. With his mind telling him he’d lost it and no longer had anything to say, the solution was to embrace the disquiet. “After a while I realised this is my muse,” remembers Baty. “I decided to give all these thoughts an avenue to release themselves, in the hope of exorcising them.”

Death Hilarious follows their breakthrough fourth studio album Land of Sleeper. The band will tour the UK/EU in April/May, in support of its release.

Tracklist:

1. Blockage
2. Detroit
3. Collider
4. Stitches
5. Glib Tongued (feat. El-P)
6. The Wyrm
7. Carousel
8. Coyote Call
9. Toecurler