More than four years since their last album, the critically adored Young Man, Old Man, Canberra’s Hoodlum Shouts will return with Heat Island. Set for release on Poison City Records on May 20, the album is a cognizant snapshot of modern Australia, as seen through a world-weary but optimistic view.
In support of the new LP, the band will tour the East Coast with a selection of Australia’s finest live performers throughout May.
Since the release of Young Man Old Man, Hoodlum Shouts have toured sporadically, collecting a tribe of admirers along the way. Hoodlums have a knack for commanding a room. Whether it through their stark vocals delivered with staggering intensity or the jagged, unnerving instrumentation that accompanies them remains unclear but they are truly a band’s band. An act that musicians gravitate towards and punters can only revere.
Recorded with Melbourne-based engineer Mike Deslandes and their first album with ex-4Dead bassist Morgan McDonnell, the album peeks inside the the political debates, misled bravado, the daily turbulence of humanity and a concern for our earth while recognising that there is plenty of good in the world and not all of society is coming undone at the seams.
While the quartet shook out trademark Midnight Oil-meets-Hot Snakes jams on the title track Heat Island, new song Twin Cities feels like new influences sinking their tentacles in. Premiering this week on TheMusic.com.au the new track carries the emotive vocals and spacious instrumentation of old but marks a change in the weather as Hoodlums head into the unknown.
LISTEN TO NEW TRACK ‘TWIN CITIES’ HERE
LP/ CD PREORDERS AVAILABLE NOW FROM POISON CITY E-STORE (www.poisoncityestore.
HOODLUM SHOUTS- Heat Island Album Tour
Tickets available on the door
FRIDAY 20 MAY Barwon Club Hotel, GEELONG
with Bad Vision + Guests
SATURDAY 21 MAY John Curtin Hotel, MELBOURNE
with Heads of Charm + Fraudband + Bad Vision
THURSDAY 26 MAY The Bearded Lady, BRISBANE
with Tape/Off + This Thing Called Progress
FRIDAY 27 MAY The Golan, LISMORE
with The Antibodies + This Thing Called Progress
SATURDAY 28 MAY The Phoenix, CANBERRA
with Agency + Yoko Oh No
SUNDAY 29 MAY Black Wire Records, SYDNEY
with Zeahorse (single Launch) + Heads of Charm (Single Launch) + David James Young
Strictly limited tickets for Black Wire Records can be bought here https://goo.gl/Be76n3
FRIDAY 10 JUNE The Eastern, BALLARAT
with Heads of Charm (Single Launch) + Guests
