Pupil Slicer Brings the “Trans Inclusive Radical Hatred” with Their Double Single “Heather/Black Scrawl”
It’s been a while since we last heard from British mathcore outfit Pupil Slicer. With the successful release of their previous album Blossom, they’ve toured a bit, done their own thing, but now they’re back with two new tracks and this time they’re drawing directly from a well of personal experiences.
Serving as the first taste of what the band’s been cooking up in recent months, the double single “Heather/Black Scrawl” has been described by the band as some of their “most confident, aggressive, and emotionally charged music to date.”
Speaking of the tracks themselves, vocalist Kate Davies said she personally pulled from her life experience as someone that identifies as non-binary and who’s also on the spectrum when writing the singles.
“These tracks explore both my own experiences as a non-binary autistic person, as well as the more generalized treatment of many kinds of minorities as a whole.
“In ‘Heather’, the unique experience of your existence being used as a political tool and your rights cast aside for the goals of others, whilst ‘Black Scrawl’ deals more with the self-destructive elements of trying to just keep yourself together and overcome the sorrow that comes with such an immense amount of hatred that you will never be able to escape, let alone dealing with your own self doubts and flaws as a person.
“I’m really happy to be writing more from my heart on this new material and I don’t want anyone mistaking what PUPIL SLICER stands for – this is Trans Inclusive Radical Hatred.”
With work on these tracks being done with assistance from Joe Clayton at No Studio, Davies touted the collaborative effort by which the band penned the songs.
“This is the most collaborative effort we’ve had as a band. Every one of us – myself, Josh (drums), and Luke Booth (bass/vox), who joined us for the first time – poured our hearts into this. Each of us contributed to crafting the strongest vision and the best music possible for the new era of Pupil Slicer.”
If you want to catch Pupil Slicer live, you’re gonna have to head out to the U.K. to do it. Still, you can find the run of dates below.
Tour dates
w/ Tayne
15/05 – Milton Keynes, Craufurd Arms
16/05 – Huddersfield, Parish Dive Bar
17/05 – Cardiff, Clwb Ifor Bach
w/ LLNN
25/11 – Bristol, The Exchange
26/11 – Nottingham, The Bodega
27/11 – Manchester, Rebellion
28/11 – Glasgow, Slay
29/11 – Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
30/11 – London, The Underworld
