Welsh punks Panic Shack have simply unleashed their first new single in two years.
Taken from what would be the band’s debut album, the monitor is entitled Gok Wan and powerfully (and depressingly!) addresses how “rising up within the ’00s we had been bombarded with fixed photographs of tremendous skinny fashions and ‘IT women’ in addition to TV reveals all about ‘wanting good’ and ‘being skinny’. We wished to jot down a tune that embodied the ludicrous nature of what we had been consuming as literal youngsters and the way it affected us then and to this present day.
“We dug deep into our shared reminiscences of that point, purchased some trashy magazines on the nook store and watched some outdated reveals on YouTube, Trinny And Susannah and Ten Years Youthful being a pair… however truthfully there are such a lot of to select from. It was surprising to look at them again. The stark distinction to what’s acceptable now, discussing ladies’s our bodies with such negativity felt satirical, albeit a plus realizing issues have come alongside a good bit since then. We took headlines from the magazines and labored a number of into the lyrics, ‘fats or pregnant’ being one – sure, that’s a real journal headline.”
Panic Shack proceed: “The title Gok Wan comes from the present he introduced How To Look Good Bare, which in all truthfully was one of many higher reveals, by way of negativity however nonetheless clearly had the principle deal with ladies’s our bodies. No hate to Gok – Trinny And Susannah didn’t have the identical ring to it for a title – it was the time we lived in and thru nevertheless it was nonetheless shit, it nonetheless formed our little teenager minds into this grown up hellscape of regularly specializing in how we glance moderately than what we do.”
Watch the video for Gok Wan:
