Expected: 14/08/26
‘Massive Champion’ is the highly anticipated new album from Bristol’s Getdown Services, set for release on 14th August via Breakfast Records. The follow up to cult classic debut Crisps, it arrives alongside lead single ‘I Can’t Die Like That’ and news of the duo’s biggest UK headline tour to date, including Roundhouse on 8th December. The announcement follows Getdown Services’ debut appearance on Later... with Jools Holland earlier this week, where they performed BBC 6 Music playlisted single ‘The Radiator’, one of ‘Massive Champion’s’ genuinely irresistible thirteen tracks.
An odyssey of anarchic joy, seditious wit and boundless energy, the album finds Josh Law and Ben Sadler pushing deeper into the singular world they have been building for years, while opening up new emotional and lyrical ground. Written in green rooms, on long car journeys and in the gaps between relentless touring, it stands as their boldest and most expansive statement to date, an ode to childhood, British cultural detritus and the absurd poetry of everyday life, distilling everything that has made Getdown Services one of the most exhilarating and unpredictable bands around. In the band’s words it is “about self pity and realising that maybe all of the healing your inner child stuff you hear about isn’t actually total bollocks. Musically and lyrically I think it’s about us trying to clean up our act a bit.”
Tracklisting
1. Poor Bannister
2. I Can’t Die Like That
3. Probiotic
4. Cha Cha Slide
5. The Radiator
6. The Definitive Map
7. A Crazy Story
8. What’s On Your Mind?
9. Stop Living
10. No One Likes Me
11. Check The Definition
12. Lentils
13. 600 Dance Lessons