Sundara Karma live at the Brixton Academy, London (Alberto Pezzali / Live4ever)
With a new single entitled Illusions and a UK tour for April 2019 both recently settled, Sundara Karma have now confirmed the details of their follow-up to the 2017 debut album Youth Is Only Ever Fun In Retrospect.
One Last Night On This Earth got its first play on BBC Radio 1 yesterday as the Ulfilas’ Alphabet LP was confirmed for release on March 1st next year. “Normally I’ll have a batch of ideas and I’ll chip away at them for months until something emerges but for this song I was fortunate enough to have that moment where everything fell into place,” frontman Oscar Pollock has said of the track.
“I wanted to write a song about an extra-terrestrial who’s been sent to Earth to observe human interaction. The being’s mission is to find an emotion that their species has never felt before but it ends up finding nothing, until it falls in love the night before it has to leave and realises, ‘ahh this is the trick, this is the game we haven’t been playing’.”
Tour dates:
April
2 – Glasgow, Barrowlands
4 – Nottingham, Rock City
6 – Manchester, O2 Victoria Warehouse
8 – Bristol, O2 Academy
9 – Sheffield, O2 Academy
10 – Birmingham, O2 Institute
12 – Southampton, O2 Guildhall
13 – London, O2 Brixton Academy