Black Honey playing Live At Leeds (Gary Mather for Live4ever)
After a couple of single releases these past few months, Black Honey have confirmed their new album Written & Directed is due at the start of next year.
Written and recorded sporadically during touring downtime since 2019, the band’s second album is set to be released on January 29th 2021, containing ten tracks including Beaches, which we heard back in July, and Run For Cover, a hook-up with Royal Blood’s Mike Kerr which was streaming last month. “Run For Cover is about the nuances in sex,” singer Izzy B. Phillips had said.
“It’s fun but on a bit of a knife edge of risk and weird. Sex can be clumsy, emotional and complex. There’s so much baggage that it comes with. We wrote the song from a man’s perspective.”
“It felt empowering to flip it to the female gaze. I think I’m exploring both power and my weakness in equal measure. We wanted it to sound manic – like Hives meets John Travolta, hips swinging. I love this song. I hope it makes women find themselves and dump their boyfriends.”
Written & Directed tracklist:
I Like The Way You Die
Run For Cover
Beaches
Back Of The Bar
Believer
I Do It To Myself
Disinfect
Summer ‘92
Fire
Gabrielle