DON BROCO have released their new single ‘Uber’, taken from the forthcoming new album Amazing Things, which will be released on the 17th September. The track’s release comes on the back of their headline performances at Slam Dunk Festival, on the weekend in Leeds and Hatfield, and follows a storming secret set at Reading & Leeds festival this past weekend.
‘Uber’ is a huge neon-fuelled anthem brimming with biting guitars, dream-like synths and irresistible stirring vocals. The track is lyrically informed by their time in America, the result of and a reaction to a number of shocking situations that the band found themselves in.
“This was the first song we started writing for the album a few years ago touring the States,” say the band. “Within the space of a week three separate ‘Uber’ drivers were openly racist in front of us, I guess assuming as white guys we’d share their views. ‘Uber’ is about being angry about that, being angry that racists seem to be growing in confidence to speak their hate in public and it’s a reminder to me to call out that discrimination whenever I see it.”
The album’s first single ‘Manchester Super Reds No.1 Fan’ also came with an out of this world video, featuring the band in a Star Trek spoof like no other. Whilst nominally appearing to be about a particular football team, the song isn’t actually about love for the club, but the darker side of fandom.