MODERN GUILT - ‘WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE VEGAS’ - EP PRESS RELEASE

Modern Guilt announce the release of their second EP, ‘We’ll Always Have Vegas’, a conceptual snapshot released digitally on Friday 8th March 2024.

Championed by tastemakers including Steve Lamacq (BBC 6Music), John Kennedy (Radio X) and Jess Iszatt (BBC Radio 1 / Introducing), the London based outfit are “knocking it out the park. Their sound already has a level of maturity that makes it both distinctive and confident in it’s ambition” (Chalkpit Records).

‘We’ll Always Have Vegas’ is a series of snapshot moments across a binge, tales from the feast, and how we remember our lives and the people we encounter. It’s the end of the night, a fixation with happiness through the lens and stories of an individual in Las Vegas. A pilgrimage to false joy, in search of feeling.

Frontman Jaz states “the new EP is about the fruitless, delusional and intoxicating arc of reaching into the pit of ourselves and having a good rummage around, chasing complete pleasure and the internal narratives, stories and monologues that accompany each stage of the rise and fall, from looking for the cure to emptiness and loneliness into the circus of nights in and nights out and back to the beginning again.”

Produced by Mikey Buckley, the tracks reflect the narrative and environment. ‘Talking To Myself’ and ‘Joy Control’ are jagged and direct, while the band’s sound expands further on ‘I Wanna Show You God’ and ‘How To Buy Happiness’, introducing space and warmer tones through acoustics and percussion. EP closer ‘Gramophone Remedy’ pulls the listener back, it’s an orchestral heartbeat with fragility and melancholy.

The EP will also be accompanied by a brand new video for recent single ‘Talking To Myself’ directed by acclaimed film maker Ross Scott.

Modern Guilt will celebrate the release with an EP launch show at Sebright Arms, London on Wednesday 6th March.

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JOY CONTROL

I wanna show you God
Sleeping on your floor
I wanna show you things
You ain’t seen before

I don’t wanna stay
But i ain’t ready to go
I wanna tell you things
You already know

Oh I wanna be yours
I wanna be adored

I wanna show you God
In the palm of your hands
Would you say it differently
If I was a different man

The sun it falls
Upon your head
I wanna take you inside darling
I wanna take you to bed

Oh I wanna be yours
I wanna be adored
I want to drink all your honey, when I feel this way
I feel like the last man on Earth when it rains

I wanna show you God
Right behind your eyes
I want you to love me
Don’t look so surprised

I want you, I want you, I want you
(Don’t you want me too?)
I wanna show you, I wanna show you, I wanna show you
(Just what I could do)
I could be yours, I could be yours, I could be yours
(I could be your man)
I could be yours, I could be yours, I could be yours

Oh I wanna be yours
I wanna be adored
I want to drink all your honey, when I feel this way
I feel like the last man on Earth when it rains

JOY CONTROL

MODERN GUILT

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