Scottish four-piece Woes lift the lid on their new single and video ‘Fancy’ today. It’s the third single to be taken from their hotly-anticipated debut album Awful Truth – following ‘Money Shoe‘ and ‘Suburbs‘ . Awful Truth drops Friday June 28.

“Fancy is a song about when you’re first getting to know someone and you’re into them, but you have to do a bit of work to convince them to take a chance on you”, explains Woes vocalist DJ. “It’s a fun, upbeat song about a feeling everyone can understand, it’s one of the most fun, accessible songs on the record, but there’s a TON of musicality going on underneath, there are some great riffs, there’s an insane bass line hiding in the first verse, some big fills. But everything contributes to making an upbeat song that you could jump around to at a festival, I love it.”

On the story behind the record, DJ explains that it’s about the realities of the progression of the band over the last 18 months.

“We went from being from some guys occasionally playing gigs and trying to practice every week, to playing a sold out show at Brixton, having people turned away from our Slam Dunk sets because they were full, touring the UK and Europe five times in a year,” he explains. 

“And it’s about the duality of that experience. So, on the one hand, we’re doing all these insane things, seeing all of our hard work start to pay off, meeting all these people that love our music. But on the other hand, we’re broke, it’s taking a huge toll on our relationships back home, having to take huge periods of time off work unpaid… Luke had to quit his job at one point, no savings, no real backup plan. And the record talks about both sides of the coin, we were lucky in a sense that we were writing and recording at the same time – it’s a real look into making your first record. The stress, the pressure, but then the moments of accomplishment that make it worthwhile.”