Catfish And The Bottlemen @ NBHD Weekender 2021 (Gary Mather for Live4ever)
Catfish And The Bottlemen return with their first new music in five years.
Catfish And The Bottlemen have shared their new single Showtime.
Recorded in Los Angeles with producer Dave Sardy, it comes ahead of their headline appearance at Reading/Leeds, and more confirmed outdoor UK shows at Cardiff Castle and Edinburgh Summer Sessions following the 2019 studio record The Balance.
“Plucked chords and lovelorn lyrics abound on Sidetrack, where McCann rivals Razorlight’s Somewhere Else for most awkwardly literal lyric of recent memory when he states that, ‘The driver insists that if we’re going to duck the traffic then we need to take the bridge, and we do’,” our review reads.
“Besides the clumsy metaphorical wordplay, McCann manages to deliver another crowd-pleasing dose of elevated power-chord runs that will have stadium and festival crowds bobbing in unison.”
Encore, bafflingly placed in the midway point, has laid-back vocal intonation and nonchalant strumming more akin to US west coast guitar music in the intro, and forms a welcome diversion as the track builds into a grunge-pop ode to breaking out of dull routine.