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Release Date Friday 20th September 2024
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.
Fresh off the back of a tour as special guest to Liam Gallagher and John Squire, UK rock
troubadour, Jake Bugg, returns with his forthcoming sixth album A Modern Day Distraction,
out September 20th on RCA records. Alongside the announcement comes his new single
‘Zombieland’ and a run of winter 2024 UK and EU dates.
A bone-crunching Beatles-via-Nirvana guitar driven banger, ‘Zombieland’ is a rollicking ode
to the many broken by the inescapable daily grind, trudging on with a stiff upper lip. “It’s
fucking brutal,” he says of the people he’s known who exist in “a constant cycle of working to
live”. “They’re not paid what they’re worth. People have the same routine every day, they’re
at work more than they see their kids, then the government puts the retirement age up. It’s
not right.”
Produced by Metrophonic at Metrophonic Studios in London, Jake returns to his roots on the
rock-driven A Modern Day Distraction – a record that turns up the noise while shining a light
on the injustice he’s seen dealt to the family and friends he grew up with. Fiery and
engaged, the record was born out of a frustration of societal inequality. Bugg found that a
time had come when he just couldn’t look away. “People might say ‘What do you know?’ or
‘Just stick to music’. I’ve got a bit of money, but we all know the people this affects. I was
just writing it because it was the way I felt. It pisses me off – especially in a country like ours
where we have the means and funds to take care of the people suffering the most, but we
choose not to.”
Now 12 years and six albums since he emerged with his streetwise and spritely, Mercury-
nominated, chart-topping, self-titled debut, one might forget he was just 18 at the time. He’s
put in the hours and achieved so much, but he’s only 30 and still seeing the front rows of his
shows getting younger.
In that spirit, Bugg still feels his best work is ahead of him: “You just have to put your songs
out into the universe and hope for the best.”
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