Large Assault have new music within the can and hope to share it in 2025.
Frontman Robert Del Naja says in a brand new NME interview that the trip-hop frontrunners, whose final tune dropped in 2016, have been sitting on unreleased materials for 4 years, attributable to what he describes as a “dispute on the label”.
“Hopefully we’re going to have the ability to launch it subsequent yr and do some gigs,” he says.
When requested how he feels concerning the new music, Del Naja elaborates: “Yeah, I hate sitting on stuff for too lengthy as a result of I’m the primary individual to get tired of it. I intentionally don’t play it for months in order that I can preserve some enthusiasm for it.”
Nevertheless, he finishes, “It’s good – I’m wanting ahead to it!”
Del Naja doesn’t specify whether or not what Large Assault have at bay is an album, an EP or some singles. The outfit haven’t launched an album since Heligoland in 2010, which marked the recording return of collaborator Grantley “Daddy G” Marshall after his absence from 2001 to 2005.
Since then, the duo have put out simply three songs: 4 Partitions (that includes digital musician Burial) in 2011, and The Spoils and Expensive Pal in 2016. In addition they shared a remix EP, Eutopia, in 2020.
Large Assault suffered quite a few setbacks within the early 2020s, together with an unspecified sickness forcing them to drop out of Primavera Sound 2022, then the dying of longtime reside guitarist Angelo Bruschini in 2023. They performed their first reside present in 5 years in June 2024 and introduced a US tour shortly afterwards, nevertheless the tour was later cancelled attributable to “unexpected circumstances”.
In the identical NME interview, Del Naja reveals that Large Assault have been approached to play US megafest Coachella in 2025, however that the band declined as a result of competition’s environmental influence.
“We stated no to Coachella for subsequent yr as a result of once more, we’ve been there as soon as, and as soon as was sufficient,” he causes. “It’s in Palm Springs. It’s a golf resort constructed on a desert, run on a sprinkler system, utilizing public water provides. Psychological. If you wish to see one thing that’s essentially the most ludicrous little bit of human behaviour – it’s proper there.”
