Celebrated purveyors of heavy rock The Damned Things have released their second single 'Something Good', taken from the band’s eagerly anticipated, upcoming album, High Crimes, due April 26 via Nuclear Blast Records.

Vocal powerhouse Keith Buckley comments on the new song: “'Something Good' is a feel-good song about feeling bad. It's about hurting people you care about because it is not in your nature to do the right thing even when you want to. A dark moral story with a really sunny feel.”

High Crimes was produced by Jay Ruston (Anthrax, Stone Sour, Amon Amarth) and is the follow up to 2010’s hugely successful debut album, Ironiclast.

Nine years ago, Scott Ian - guitarist and co-founder of legendary thrash metal outfit, Anthrax - took a meeting with Joe Trohman (also a guitarist, and a co-founder, of the band Fall Out Boy). He and Scott hit it off and started making songs together. With the help of drummer Andy Hurley (Fall Out Boy) and the irreverent vocals of Keith Buckley (Every Time I Die), The Damned Things were formed. The band has gone through changes since its inception and now features Dan Andriano of Alkaline Trio on bass.

After a series of barn-storming shows throughout Europe this month, Skinny Lister set a course for the second leg of their UK tour and head for home with a new single in their sails: ‘My Life, My Architecture’. Arriving like the epilogue to your favourite novel, the folk-punk sextet follow the release of their intrepid fourth album, The Story Is… with this apt and irresistible latest excerpt from it.

“On one hand ‘My Life, My Architecture’ is an empowering song about being in control of your own destiny, creating your own story. It’s our nod to existentialism and freedom of choice. We are a product of our life decisions.” says Dan Heptinstall of the track. “On the other hand - the chorus of the song, complete with a key-shift, reflects the uncertainty of the risks we take in life; those leaps of faith that are needed from time to time that help to keep life surprising and exciting.”

Complementing the song’s essence of duality, Lorna Thomas & Dan Heptinstall vocals duel dizzyingly through one of their most complex and compulsively catchy choruses to date. Blue-printed by the band with the baroque-pop organ flurries and torpedo-like tremolo guitar breaks, ‘My Life, My Architecture’ was given the finishing touches by producer Barny Barnicott (Arctic Monkeys, The Enemy, The Temper Trap) to stand tall as one of the band’s most ludicrously enjoyable pop edifices to date.

SKINNY LISTER: ‘THE STORY IS…’ 2019 TOUR

UK TOUR - LEG 2: APRIL

3rd - Edinburgh The Mash House

4th - Newcastle Riverside

5th - Nottingham Rescue Rooms

6th - Manchester Club Academy 2

10th - Cambridge Junction 1

11th - London Electric Ballroom