UK punks High Vis turned a lot of heads with their recent single "Talk For Hours," which we named one of the best punk songs of April, and now they've announced their new album, Blending, due September 9 via Dais Records (pre-order). The album opens with "Talk For Hours," and it also includes new single "Fever Dream," which is cut from the same cloth as the previous single, offering up Britpop/baggy revival with hardcore grit. If The Stone Roses and Oasis had been raised on Revolution Summer, it might've sounded a little something like this. Talking about the song and its Simon B. Wellington-directed video, guitarist Martin Macnamara says:
"Fever Dream" was written during the hottest days of summer and is about a kind of existential aimlessness that is at its best and worst during that time of the year - when it's easy to feel more alive, but the longer, empty days can do bad things to overactive minds. Musically it walks a narrow line between that sense of hope and despair but emphasizes the former by nodding towards a baggy, swirling Northern sound.
The video for "Fever Dream" was shot over the course of three years and assembled as a kaleidoscopic document of the highs and lows of life as a band. Through intimate studio, tour and live footage we were aiming to capture the essence of a band bridging the gap between nostalgic reflection and a newly realized optimism. It’s the sound of summer in the capital; chaotic nights blending into aimless days.