Happy New Year from TV FACE – “Innocence slipping into disillusionment”

LANCASTER’s TV FACE slam the door on 2025 with the industrio-pop raucous ‘Happy New Year,’ a well-timed acerbic protest song rather than the typical, hackneyed, musical festive salutation.

The new single was part of the band’s second album, ‘WOLF RENTS BARK’, released via Crackedankles Records last September.

“Live, this track has been landing hard,” said vocalist and guitarist, sTeVe. “‘Happy New Year’ charts innocence slipping into disillusionment, with lyrics written under a self-imposed rule of just three syllables per line. It inspired WOLF RENTS BARK, our album title for an age where politician-CEOs cosplay as ‘the guy next door,’ while extracting wealth at a pace. The band are releasing this festive protest song instead of creating more landfill Christmas-themed shit.”

And for the accompanying video, TV FACE planned to do something simple – before deciding on the opposite.

“Take ‘Weird Science,’ soak it in Lynchian dread, dust it with Wes Anderson’s surreal symmetry, and drench the whole thing in Wolf of Wall Street-level debauchery. That’s the vibe. Like all our videos and art, this was a DIY affair. We filmed it in a punk-rock bungalow in rural Lancashire and promptly lost the plot. It mutates through four twisted vignettes into one big, beautiful mess.”

Completing the trio are Brigit (bass/vocs), and Steeny (drums).

TV FACE live: * Jan 23: Nottingham, JT Soar * Jan 24: Northwich, The Salty Dog * May 03: Preston, The Ferret [Crackedankles Weekender] *

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(TV FACE photo (c) Mark Whiteside)