Jools - Violent Delights [Opaque turquoise coloured vinyl]

Format: Coloured Vinyl LP 
Catalogue No.: HOFF480LPA
Barcode: 5060626468849
Release Date: 06 Jun 2025
Genre: Punk/Hardcore

 UK punk collective Jools announce debut album ‘Violent Delights’ out via Hassle Records.
 ‘Violent Delights’ is an anthology of stories that meanders through themes of grief, rage, desire  and identity. There are stories of the toxicity of addiction and growing up around religion; stories of overwhelming obsession, isolating abandonment and empowering anthems of identity and stark laments about sexual violence. They are each lived experiences, laid bare, reclaimed with every syllable whether dripping in spite or swagger, anger or anxiety.
 “Loss is a central theme of the album,” explains vocalist Kate Price. “For us, we have our own specific version of what that is in these songs, but for anyone listening, it could be the loss of something else - a loved one, a relationship. But we’re never mourning loss. We’re celebrating it. Loss is almost universally looked at as a negative, but we’re finding the positives in those moments. We had to go through hell to get to heaven. Violent Delights is about looking back with gratitude, and even fondness, the closing of one chapter and beginning of another.”
 Jools - comprised of Kate Price, Mitch Gordon, Chris Johnston and Callum Connachie, Joe Dodd and Chelsea Wrones - has been a name on the lips of clued-up fans and tastemakers since its collective of musicians found each other in the earliest days of 2023. Quickly gaining a reputation for their cathartic, unpredictable and specular live performances, the band have been consistently championed by BBC Radio One, including two Tune Of The Week placements on Daniel P Carter’s esteemed Rock Show.
 When pressed, Jools may identify as a punk band - in its truest sense that punk is a mentality, rather than a sound - but ‘Violent Delights’ equally lends from the worlds of metal, rap, post-hardcore and hip-hop as much as it does the post-punk of its surface layer. Gordon and Price are as likely to point to Turnstile, Mannequin Pussy and Amyl & The Sniffers as influences on the record as they are to Little Simz and The Streets’ Mike Skinner. “We don’t necessarily look at music in sounds or structures,” nods Gordon. “Instead we look for attitudes.”
 ‘Violent Delights’ was recorded across two week-long stints at Southampton's The Ranch studio in August and December of 2024, with Lewis Johns helming production and mixing  duties.
 “Truly amazing, artful, post-punk, indie rock... wicked band! If you get a chance go see them play do not miss it, they rule!” - Daniel P Carter, BBC Radio 1
 “Lots of love for this band on the show!” - Alyx Holcombe, BBC Radio 1
 “They embody everything alternative; in fashion, in style, in music, in attitude - you need to get to know them!” - Nels Hylton, BBC Radio 1
 “Jools’ onstage aesthetic is almost as fierce as their politically charged punk flow. The noise rockers dominate the stage, enraged poetry unfolding before you, every lyric cutting” -CLASH
 “Jools are out to be noticed” - DIY
 “Socially-powered fuzzy indie-punk rock... incredibly exciting” - Kerrang!  Softpak CD.  Petrol (opaque turquoise) coloured vinyl LP

Tracklisting
The Pleasures
Limerence
Cardinal
Mother Monica
Knee Injury
97%
Guts
Live Deliciously
Dunoon
Violent Delights