The Red Stains Take On Binary Gender On New Single “Fluid”

The Red Stains take on the gender binary with new single, Fluid, which is being unveiled today at Not A Cult Festival. High-speed drums, pulsing bass and screeching guitar form the backdrop to powerful, emotive lead vocals. Fluid is a bathroom-mirror shriek with heart-shattering honesty. Holding a scalpel blade up to the gender binary and dissecting the feeling of being a genderfluid being in a binary world, Fluid is a brutal, beautifully disruptive glitch. In early July, the band will follow up with the release of a music video satirising transphobic journalism, 1970’s infomercials and gender-reveal parties.

Cooking up a plastic fantastic disco-punk sound from a collage of musical influences, the Manchester, UK four-piece embrace the kitsch and the tacky as a power to disrupt the male dominated music industry. Their sharp and sarcastic lyrics hold a mirror up to domestic everyday life: consumerism, mental illness, public transport, discount supermarkets and being queer.