THIS WEEK British rock icons Skunk Anansie drop their hugely anticipated new studio album, ‘The Painful Truth’.
The new album, their seventh studio collection and first in nine years, will be released on May 23, Voiceonline reports.
To celebrate the band will be playing a very special headline show on the day of release, just outside Bristol.
The Painful Truth is a mesmerising, provocative, powerful and emotional album demonstrating a band at the absolute peak of their powers, yet with everything to prove.
“I don’t care that we were big in the Nineties,” states vocalist Skin.
“Creatively it’s irrelevant because in my rock bible the first commandment states, “If thy rest on them laurels, thy shall wither up and die artistically, musically, mentally. And then financially.’”
For Skin the past counts for nothing. Even when you’ve been a band for 30 years and history seems on your side.
The Painful Truth is the sound of Skunk Anansie facing up to who they are and what they want to become. It is more than an album title.
It is a reality that they have lived through.
A combination of parenthood, illness, and the departure of their longstanding manager seemed to conspire against them and add to their uncertainty, forcing singer Skin, guitarist Ace, bass player Cass and drummer Mark to question their place in the world as a band, as well as their own personal ambitions.
