Berries Announce Self Titled Album & Share Lead Single “Watching Wax”

Berries are back and have confirmed that their new self titled album will be released on the 18th October via the Xtra Mile Recordings, the album is preceded by its lead single, Watching Wax. With its scrawled out staccato guitar licks, spidery bass lines and venomous lyrical stings, Watching Wax signals a deadly return from London trio. Dripping with a febrile intensity and packed with scattergun hooks to match, the track finds Berries reflecting on the restlessness of anxiety and the constant cloud it can cast over our day to day.

“Watching Wax is about escaping your worries for the day and attempting to give your mind a rest. The lyrics touch on fears for our future selves, looming anxieties that you can’t suppress and the desire to have a perfect day without your daily stormy thoughts. This album is about battling intrusive thoughts and finding contentment in your day, however big or small those moments are. It’s a journey to finding your own space and being comfortable in it. We haven’t held back with this album – it’s raw, honest, and a true reflection of Berries. We really pushed ourselves creatively and out of our comfort zone, especially with the acoustic track and working with mixing engineer Adrian Bushby. We’re super proud of what we’ve written and created.“

The first indicator of how the follow-up to their debut full length, How We Function, is shaping up, the single finds Berries honing their art for the unpredictable and growing in confidence. And as its eponymous title, Berries, may already make clear, this is a band determined to make a statement with their second full-length outing. While the band have never shied away from brutally honest admissions or difficult subject matters like struggles with mental health, Berries finds them weaponising them into a set of fearlessly assertive tracks that seize strength from darkness. While veering between Riot Grrrl-esque discordance and thunderous grunge-rock anthems ripe for the big rooms, the album also finds a band spreading their wings with sonic explorations into shapeshifting math-rock, epic post-rock nods, through shades of Power-Pop and even tender, unadorned acoustica.

The band have also announced a run of UK tour dates in October and November in support of their new album where Berries will be performing new material and more.