{"id":3035,"date":"2023-01-25T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/?p=3035"},"modified":"2023-01-25T12:12:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T12:12:36","slug":"sleaford-mods-uk-grim-10mar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/sleaford-mods-uk-grim-10mar\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-sale of the week: Sleaford Mods \u2013 <em>UK Grim<\/em>, out 10 March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Sleaford Mods - UK Grim\" href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.co.uk\/products\/sleaford-mods-uk-grim\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centre aligncenter\" title=\"Sleaford Mods - UK Grim\" src=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/img\/rls\/offer\/2303\/SleafordMods.jpg\" alt=\"Sleaford Mods - UK Grim\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>UK Grim<\/em><\/strong> is the most dancefloor friendly release from Nottingham duo <strong>Sleaford Mods<\/strong> to date: an urgent and sage-like look at life, living and the gritty reality of our era. This is truly the sound of now, not only in terms of the ideas and issues Jason Williamson\u2019s strong words invoke, but also thanks to the innovative and immersive production of Andrew Fearn, which on this release has seen the pair collaborate on songs with Jane\u2019s Addiction\u2019s creative powerhouse, Perry Farrell and Dave Navarro, and with Florence Shaw, the distinct and vital voice at the heart of British band Dry Cleaning.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the forces that have triggered the poetic protest at the heart of this record, as with their musical forebears like The Clash or The Jam, Sleaford Mods reveal that the outrage they feel is underscored by love for the people and places around them, making <em>UK Grim<\/em> as much a celebration of individuals and the idealists as it is an attack on ruling classes who pursue their own self-serving agendas with increasing desperation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe we are proud of the country. Maybe we are proud to be English,\u201d explains Williamson. \u201cMaybe I\u2019m proud of the horrible grey streets and the shit weather and the stupid fashions I find myself investing in. It\u2019s just that the English we\u2019re proud of being is absolutely nothing like the English the authorities want to try and promote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Angry yet artful, innovative yet possessing an instinctual energy that irresistibly moves bodies and minds, <em>UK Grim<\/em> is an erudite electronic vision that truly engages with times that have been anything but \u2018precedented\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note<\/em>: The LP is initially available on limited-edition <strong>silver vinyl<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sleaford Mods - UK Grim\" href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.co.uk\/products\/sleaford-mods-uk-grim\">Click here<\/a> for more details and to order your copy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK Grim is the most dancefloor friendly release from Nottingham duo Sleaford Mods to date: an urgent and sage-like look at life, living and the gritty reality of our era. This is truly the sound of now, not only in terms of the ideas and issues Jason Williamson\u2019s strong words invoke, but also thanks to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,159],"tags":[36,829,830,862,194],"class_list":["post-3035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-new-releases","category-promotions","tag-new-release","tag-pre-sale-of-the-week","tag-pre-sale-offers","tag-sleaford-mods","tag-special-offer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3036,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions\/3036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}