The Cribs‘ Ryan Jarman has declared the band’s 2012 mission statement will be to ‘take on the mainstream’.
The Jarman brothers, who returned to their original three piece line-up following the departure of Johnny Marr last year, will release their new album ‘In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull‘ on May 7th. And, according to Ryan, the current ‘pop hell’ nature of UK music is exactly the kind of challenge they wanted to take on when recording their fifth record.
“We didn’t want to do [a new album] while guitar bands were still in vogue because it felt like we always go lumped in with a scene that we didn’t feel represented us,” he told NME. “I don’t like being represented by other bands.”
“Now, we’re in pop hell. The pendulum has swung back to dance music and commercial pop. You can’t avoid it. When you watch TV there’s pop stars on adverts and TV shows – it’s everywhere. So maybe people will see us now as a counter-cultural band – we want to take on the mainstream.”