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 observe is entitled Gok Wan and powerfully (and depressingly!) addresses how “rising up within the ’00s we had been bombarded with fixed photos of tremendous skinny fashions and ‘IT ladies’ in addition to TV reveals all about ‘trying good’ and ‘being skinny’. We wished to write 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 at the present time.
“We dug deep into our shared reminiscences of that point, purchased some trashy magazines on the nook store and watched some previous 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 stunning to observe them again. The stark distinction to what’s acceptable now, discussing girls’s our bodies with such negativity felt satirical, albeit a plus figuring out 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 offered 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 concentrate on girls’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 slightly than what we do.”
Watch the video for Gok Wan:
