“I saw her dancing with the Devil,” snarls Kelvin Swaby, lead singer of Noid, England's most notorious bandits The Heavy. It is the opening line to the band's new single, “Sixteen,” which was released exclusively on iTunes, then on July 7th via other digital retail outlets - via Counter/+1 Records. From there, The Heavy descends into a chilling post-apocalyptic carnival ride. “Now she looked just like Heaven, but her mind reeks of Hell.” Indeed, a soul hangs in the balance, but The Heavy pretty much knows the score: “Sixteen, she's already dead.” This ain't your grandmother's Coney Island ride.
The Heavy are in the midst of a Singles campaign, which is the first new music released since their much bally-hoo'd debut Great Vengeance and Furious Fire. The Heavy's new single ‘Sixteen' is the second of a series of three singles set to be released this Summer, all leading up to the October 6th North American release of their sophomore album, The House That Dirt Built, which was produced by Jim Abbiss (Arctic Monkeys, Adele, Editors, Kasabian). The first single, ‘Oh No! Not You Again!,' came out on May 12th, features The Noisettes' Shingai Shoniwa, and can be seen and heard here.
Click here to view the music video for ‘Sixteen,' shot in aforementioned Coney Island. The end of the world never looked or sounded so… heavy.
The Heavy are locked and loaded to hit the Festival Circuit through June and July, howling and pillaging clear across Canada including a handful of US dates.
The Heavy are back. Hide the women and children.
North American Tour Dates
July 8 || Casbah || Hamilton, ON
July 9 || Festival Plaza (Cisco Systems Bluesfest) || Ottawa, ON
July 10 || Festival International de Jazz de Montreal || Montreal, QC
July 11 || Quebec City Int'l Summer Festival || Quebec City, QC
July 13 + 14 || NYC Promo || New York, NY
The band's new album, The House That Dirt Built, is set for an October 6th release.
Enough scuzz guitars and heart attack drums to make The Sonics blush… before exploding in a glorious cloud of amp shards and broken glass.” – NME
“A cast-iron groove-rock quintet whose mix of frazzle and funk gives off an instantaneous contact high. Superfly and superfun.” – Spin
“The Heavy are reaching into long forgotten closets and pulling archaic samplers, rusty horns and rotting guitars – then blowing the dust off ‘em and into your ear… Tom Waits harboring the RZA.” – URB
“The Heavy sound like Curtis Mayfield's ‘Pusherman' resurrecting Led Zeppelin and the exiled spirit of Cassius Clay. Get used to the weight, The Heavy are about to throw it down.” - The Fly
Get Heavy.
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