Today, Krush Puppies have announced their debut EP Love Kills The Demons, out on May 6th, and that they’ve signed with Holm Front Records, the label run by Sports Team and home to Walt Disco, Personal Trainer, and more.
Krush Puppies have also shared the title track as a single. It’s an acknowledgment from vocalist and bassist Alexa Daly about the night terrors she had for years, where she’d be up all night seeing shapes in the darkness. Then she met someone and suddenly it all went away as if his presence made her feel safe. Alexa explains: “This faceless shadowy figure would sit at the end of the bed and wake me by pushing on my chest so that I was gasping for air. I used to be up all night, then I met someone and suddenly I started sleeping all the way through, soundly next to him. I guess I suddenly felt safe, which feels very soppy now I’m having to write it down. But I can’t describe this overwhelming sense of peace that I felt almost instantly. I came into the studio with the chords and melody, then we all finished it that day. A few weeks later we recorded it with John Bisset, and Jenny and I sang the whole song together in unison, so our voices kind of blended to make one. It almost sounds like a whole new band member.”
The new track comes with a video based on guitarist and vocalist Jenny Wells witnessing her mum’s adult baptism in a swimming pool, with inspiration from old 60’s TV music shows like The Porter Wagoner Show, except they only had a budget of about £30. On this she says: “We filmed everything ourselves at Heather’s (our drummer) house and used mainly a head torch as our sole light source. It was quite funny, Heather had just moved in and we turned up to her front door, where she was meeting her neighbour for the first time, dressed head to toe in christian gear, adorning a giant homemade crucifix.”
Listen to “Love Kills The Demons” and watch the video for it below:
On the signing, Henry Young of Holm Front Records and Sports Team said: “From the moment we hit play on Love Kills The Demons, it was clear this wasn’t your typical demo submission. Morricone-esque flute meets a wall of fuzz-laden guitar across four tracks unlike anything else in the game right now. Very excited here at Holm Front to be releasing the EP – a major step-up in recorded output from a band already turning heads for their live show in the capital.”
Love Kills The Demons artwork & tracklist:
1. Throw Me On The Fire
2. Love Kills The Demons
3. Why
4. Everybody Wants To Be A Cowboy