DESCRIPTION:
Zipperface is taken from the new album Honeymoon On Mars.
Out Now: https://thepopgroup.lnk.to/HoneymoonOnMars

Post punk provocateurs The Pop Group have announced details of the first single Zipperface from their forthcoming new album. A fractured dub technoid vision, it finds the band channeling the current whilst remaining faithful to past principles.

Mark Stewart’s cryptic reflections on the track:
‘Dangerous Days / The War For Tomorrow Has Begun / Death To Distraction’

The single is taken from the 10 track album produced by dub titan Dennis Bovell, who worked on their seminal debut Y, and Hank Shocklee, producer of Public Enemy’s iconic first three albums as a member of the Bomb Squad. Honeymoon On Mars is set for release through Freaks R Us on Friday October 28th 2016.

With Honeymoon On Mars The Pop Group open another chapter at a time when their iconoclastic contention is needed now more than ever. It’s a record that finds the band unwaveringly incensed and resolute in their mutative sense of innovation, as Stewart elaborates: ‘it’s a stand against manufactured hate, a hypersonic journey into a dystopian future full of alien encounters and sci-fi lullabies’

Recorded and mixed in various studios in early summer of 2016, working with Bovell and Shocklee the band realised a dream twofold collaboration, as Stewart concludes: “We’ve at last fulfilled a double fantasy to work with our two favourite sonic assassins, Dennis ‘Blackbeard’ Bovell and Hank Shocklee. We’re in awe as Dennis, the Captain Kirk of dub is taking us on a hyper sound voyage into the future, and Hank, as always tears up the rules totally upholding our faith in the absolute value of noise. We’ve gone completely off the map.”

Talking about working with The Pop Group, Shocklee said: "The Pop Group sound has a level of freedom, fun and creative musicianship in their recordings that is a special and rare find in today's world. Their uncompromising spirit to be themselves and not worry about fitting into a musical box, sets them apart.” Long-time collaborator Bovell added: “It’s been a great pleasure to be working with the guys again. They are truly beyond good and evil.”

The Pop Group will be performing a rare stint of dates across Europe this November with dub maestro and producer Dennis Bovell at the controls.

http://www.thepopgroup.net/live/