Nottingham duo Sleaford Mods are due to release their third ‘proper’ album on July 10th via abstract-punk label Harbinger Sound on vinyl, CD and download. The album will be housed in a gatefold sleeve designed by Steve Lippert and was mastered by Matt Colton at Alchemy. Everything else was done by Sleaford Mods.
“Key Markets was a large supermarket bang in the centre of Grantham from
the early 1970's up until around 1980,” explains Jason Williamson. “My mum
would take me there and I'd always have a large coke in a plastic orange cup
surrounded by varnished wood trimmings and big lamp shades with flowers on them.
Beige bricks with bright yellow points of sale and large black foam letters
surrounded you and this is why we called the album ‘Key Markets’. It's the
continuation of the day to day and how we see it, the un-incredible
landscape.” “The album was recorded in various periods between summer
2014 through to October of that year. We worked fast as we normally do, the
method was the same as the other albums and like the other two, the sound has
naturally moved itself along. ‘Key Markets’ is in places quite abstract but
it still deals heavily with the disorientation of modern existence. It still
touches on character assassination, the delusion of grandeur and the
pointlessness of government politics. It's a classic. Fuck em.”
Sleaford Mods are: Jason Williamson – words Andrew Fearn – music.