British rock trio Kill The Ideal are back with the ferocious new single ‘Dangerous!’, which premiered last night on Kerrang! Radio’s Fresh Blood show with Alex Baker. The track features on their upcoming self-titled EP, out October 17. It’s fuelled with explosive riffs and hard-hitting drums, layered with epic vocal hooks that will be sure to get heads banging and mosh pits moving, while beneath the music there’s a deeper and darker motive behind the song.

During his childhood, frontman Ash Wilson was a victim of bullying. He extracts the negative emotions and memories from these past experiences and channels it into his lyrics. He explains, "the person that gave me the inspiration for this song irritates the hell out of me! ‘Dangerous!’ is about looking your enemies in the face and squaring up to them with a smile. I went through hell and high water and ‘Dangerous!’ was the result... it’s gonna stick to you like a leech."

The band emerged onto the UK rock scene with their 2015 debut EP Heritage, which sparked attention from the likes of Kerrang!, Hit The Floor, BBC Introducing and Total Uprawr and landed the band shows with Lonely The Brave, Black Peaks and Decade to name but a few. Following a lineup change reducing them to a three-piece, guitarist and vocalist Ash Wilson, bassist Luke Farmer and drummer Jordan Bell set to work writing and recording brand new music inspired by their day-to-day lives.

They headed to Watford to the home of Lower Than Atlantis’ personal studio to work alongside their guitarist, producer and engineer Ben Sansom on the brand new record. ‘Dangerous!’ follows the previous single ‘Know Your Name’, to which Kerrang! Radio’s Alex Baker raved, “if this is a sign to come from Kill The Ideal then we’re all in for a treat”.

Ahead of the new EP, Kill The Ideal will be taking part in Soccer Six Fest on Sunday 17th September alongside The Darkness and Mallory Knox before a headline show at Leicester’s Pi Bar on the 29th. They will then join the likes of Circa Waves, British Sea Power, The Sherlocks and Gnarwolves at 2Q Festival on Saturday October 28.

CATCH KILL THE IDEAL AT THE FOLLOWING DATES:

Sep 17th – Soccer Six Fest, Mile End Stadium

Sep 29th – Pi Bar, Leicester

Sep 30th – Thinking Cap Alldayer, Leeds

Oct 28th – 2Q Festival, Lincoln

With his new album due out on October 6 via Ghostly International, Shigeto has shared new single ‘Don't Trip’. It’s been four years since Zach Saginaw, aka Shigeto, returned home to Michigan from a stint in Brooklyn, NY, and since then, the multi-faceted musician has become a part of the fabric of Detroit’s music scene. While always having a personal approach to his projects, Saginaw’s influences for his third album, The New Monday, are more about the community of Detroit than anything else. And the community comes through clearly on the new track ‘Don't Trip’, which features the vocals of Detroit emcee Silas Green guiding the listener through Shigeto's assertive, spiraling production.

Named after a weekly DJ event called Monday is the New Monday that Saginaw does at the unassuming Motor City Wine with a group of friends, The New Monday is the result of Saginaw diving into the city’s deep record culture, where the legacy of artists of the past help Saginaw embrace his own contributions. “It’s focused on a couple things and they all kind of come together to represent different things,” explains Saginaw. “My time back in Detroit, back living in Michigan and spending time with a lot of kind of original people who have always been here, learning from them, hearing stories from them, being influenced by them, and inspired by them.”

While, in the past, projects like Lineage or No Better Time Than Now were rooted in strong personal messages, family and relationships respectively, The New Monday represents a communal effort where solidarity is the key. Going for a simplified approach of just trying to make good tracks, The New Monday is diverse in its styles leaning more into a dance music direction – new ground for a Shigeto project. A new air of confidence in Saginaw has expanded his horizons since his return to Detroit, but traces of his past work will continue to be present.

“I don’t want people to think I’m leaving anything,” says Saginaw. “I’m still me. It’s a result of me being immersed in the culture, and inevitably making music that is influenced by that culture whether it be house, techno, jazz, rap. It doesn’t matter. It’s all coming from what I love about Michigan.”

While The New Monday still features the jazz textures long associated with Shigeto projects, the varied elements that make up the album cohesively come together to show the distinct inspiration that Saginaw has drew from since his return home to Detroit. Like on “Barry White”, which features Detroit hip-hop artist ZelooperZ  (a member of Danny Brown’s Bruiser Brigade crew who Saginaw also has a side project with called ZGTO), Saginaw captures everything he’s been doing all on one track. As much as it’s hip-hop influenced, it’s a mutant that encompasses elements of dance music, jazz, and ambient sounds.

Throughout The New Monday, Saginaw poignantly references the musical influences that have either always been with him or newly discovered. It is Saginaw’s interpretation of Detroit’s rich culture of innovative artistry -- something that's richly detailed and revered in the recent video for ‘Detroit Part II’ -- but done so with respect for the history and to contribute, not disrupt.

“I think over the past four years, I can confidently say that I found my place here,” describes Saginaw. “I’m happy here and I feel that I have the respect from the people I need respect from, that I want respect from. It’s all of the result of embracing it and embracing, not Detroit, but embracing community, embracing family, being closer to my parents, being closer to my oldest friends.”

‘The New Monday’ track list:

01. Detroit Part II 

02. Barry White (ft. ZelooperZ)

03. Ice Breaker

04. In Case You Forgot

05. There's A Vibe Tonight (ft. Kaleena Zanders)

06. A2D (ft. ZelooperZ & Silas Green) 

07. Wit Da Cup

08. Don't Trip (ft. Silas Green) 

09. When We Low