Manchester Punk Festival Issues 42nd Name Your Price Compilation
Manchester Punk Festival have released the 42nd volume of their name your price compilation series via Bandcamp ahead of next year’s festival. Manchester Punk…
Gruff punkers Polar Bear Club have unveiled the title of their forthcoming album. The album will be titled Clash Battle Guilt Pride, which is set to hit stores later this summer from their current home on Bridge Nine Records. Lead vocalist Jimmy Stadt discusses the band’s creative process this time around:
“We have a tendency to be really analytical [toward] our songs, and be like, ‘Well, let’s not do this,’ and ‘Let’s do this, let’s scrap this… this time around, we sort of knew that Brian [McTernan] was going to be that guy. We attacked [the music] with an attitude of, ‘Let’s not judge any of this. Let’s write it all. If something’s really, really not working, let’s not worry about it. Let’s just write, write, write, until we get to the studio.’ That’s just where we ended up.”
Lyrically, the band describes the effort as focusing more about personal relationships, and less about the band touring on the road.