MEAT WAVE ANNOUNCE NEW SINGLE ‘COSMIC ZOO’ AND STREAM ALL-NEW B-SIDE ‘SYMMY’

NEW ALBUM, DELUSION MOON, OUT NOW ON SIDEONEDUMMY RECORDS

UK/EU TOUR THROUGH NOV ’15

Listen to ‘Symmy’ here:
https://soundcloud.com/sideonedummy/symmy-44khz-16-bit
Listen to ‘Cosmic Zoo’ here:
https://soundcloud.com/sideonedummy/cosmic-zoo

“Meat Wave have a truly heavy punk style that delivers addicitive raw power chords and TUNES!” – MarkMeets

Having now kicked off their autumn run of UK/EU dates with an appearance at Iceland’s Airwaves Festival followed by shows with Protomartyr across the continent, Chicago’s Meat Wave are proud to present ‘Cosmic Zoo’ as the latest single taken from their second full-length album, Delusion Moon (out now on SideOneDummy), as well as debuting a brand new b-side, ‘Symmy’.

A blistering master class in abrasive post-punk made to feel poppy, ‘Cosmic Zoo’ is the kind of get-in-your-head-and-stay-there hit that propelled bands like Cloud Nothings, FIDLAR and Japandroids to worldwide success.

Listen to ‘Cosmic Zoo’ here.

‘Symmy’, meanwhile, rolls along with all the pent-up, yet refined, urgency of the Wipers – who Meat Wave covered with such effect on this year’s Brother EP. Speaking of the track, the band say: “Symmy was recorded during the Delusion Moon session. It was a really new song so we just kind of went for it. It’s about the Phoenix Lights in the 90s, when a bunch of people saw a really huge UFO above the city and the governor played it off like nothing happened. Look it up!”

Listen to ‘Symmy’ here.

See below for the band’s full, forthcoming UK and EU itinerary and make sure to catch a show and witness Meat Wave at the peak of their powers.

UK/EU Live Dates:
Monday November 23 – Brighton, UK – The Hope & Ruin
Tuesday November 24 – Bristol, UK – Start the Bus
Wednesday November 25 – Birmingham, UK – Sunflower Lounge
Thursday November 26 – London, UK – The Victoria*
Friday November 27 – Manchester, UK – Gullivers
Saturday November 28 – Nottingham, UK – JT Soar
Sunday November 29 – Leeds, UK – Brudenell Social Club
Monday November 30 – Norwich, UK – Owl Sanctuary
* = w/ Pink Street Boys

Meat Wave – Delusion Moon | SideOneDummy Records | Out Now

1. Delusion Moon
2. Network
3. Vacation
4. Sunlight
5. Cosmic Zoo
6. Witchcraft
7. Sham King
8. Erased
9. NRA
10. Reunion
11. I Was Wrong
12. Sinkhole
13. The Gay Contempt

More about Meat Wave:

Meat Wave are constantly being asked about their name, but they get why you would. Pulled from a classic headline in The Onion, the Chicago-based trio will release their new album Delusion Moon via new home SideOneDummy Records on September 18.

Formed in 2011 by the trio of Chris Sutter (vocals/guitar), Joe Gac (bass) and Ryan Wizniak (drums), the three punk scene stalwarts came together and, just a year later, released its self-titled full-length debut. That first collection of songs was a master class in abrasive post-punk made to feel poppy, simultaneously referencing Hot Snakes, the disgruntled lyricism of Shellac and a little bit of The Jesus Lizard’s fire-spitting sneer just for good measure.

Now, following this year’s lauded Brother EP – which saw release via our own Brace Yourself Records – the band return invigorated: as confrontational as ever, with an increasingly ferocious live show (which you can catch on a whole host of live shows across the US and UK this autumn), ready to make their biggest statement to date. The planets – and yes, moons – might at last have aligned for Meat Wave.

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