Saint Agnes - BLOODSUCKERS [Trans Red LP]

SPINEFARM

£24.48

Format: LP, Trans Red
Catalogue No.: SPINE800001P
Barcode: 5401148000016
Release Date: 21 Jul 2023
Genre: Indie/Alternative

If there’s a single word to define Saint Agnes, it’s committed. Two words? Fully committed.

Hailing from the UK, this four-strong outfit are all about honest lyrics, raw vocal performances (delivered by frontperson, Kitty A. Austen), plus rage-fuelled music intended to give a voice to those closer to the fringe than the centre.

More gang than band, Saint Agnes (Roman martyr, patron saint of a number of things, including girls) seek to empower those who’ve been battered and bruised yet refuse to lie down, and it’s a thread that runs deep within ‘Bloodsuckers’ – SA’s second studio album and their first for Spinefarm.

From the title track (also lead single / video) onwards, this is a genre-jumping body of work, taking in elements of metal, punk, industrial and grunge, without being bound by any specific style; the 11 tracks here come straight from the source, largely self-produced and mixed (NIN collaborator Sean Bevan lends his mixing skills to future single / video, ‘Follow You’), and this self-contained approach provides an extra emotional weight throughout, with Kerrang! cover star Mimi Barks further fuelling the chaos on the short, sharp shock that is ‘Body Bag’.

Concludes Kitty: “This is a record for the outsider, the defeated, the crushed. We might be broken, but that doesn’t mean that we’re not whole. Bloodsuckers forever, Saint Agnes forever.”

FOR FANS OF: Wargasm, Vukovi, Black Honey, Witch Fever

TRACKLISTING
01 BLOODSUCKERS
02 ANIMAL
03 I MEAN NOTHING TO YOU
04 OUTSIDER
05 THIS IS NOT THE END
06 FOLLOW YOU
07 I AM
08 AT WAR WITH MYSELF
09 MIDDLE FINGER
10 BODY BAG
11 FOREVER AND EVER

LINE-UP
Kitty A. Austen
Jon James Tufnell
Benjamin Chernitsky
Andy Head