{"id":34787,"date":"2020-08-15T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=34787"},"modified":"2023-04-07T13:48:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T17:48:19","slug":"fur-announce-facing-home-mixtape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=34787","title":{"rendered":"FUR announce \u2018Facing Home Mixtape\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Following a breakthrough 2019 for the band, Brighton’s FUR have been working since the turn of the year on a host of new material. With their pre-pandemic, James Skelly-produced single Grow Up<\/em><\/a> released just last month, FUR show no signs of slowing down and have announced the release of a new 7-track offering, the \u2018Facing Home Mixtape\u2019. Self-recorded by the band themselves, it features more of the perfect pop FUR are increasingly becoming renowned for, and shows that writer’s block is certainly no concern in the FUR camp.

Frontman and main songwriter Murray explains how it came about: “Part-written, but then fully recorded during lock-down, the mixtape is by far the most honest thing we have offered. No one else\u2019s input besides ours, 7 tracks each giving their own angle on the FUR sound.

Themes of isolation started to show in the songs written before anyone knew we were facing an isolated lock-down, so it feels like the perfect time to be releasing something like this. Being forced to reflect on the past and tackle some personal struggles means the songs are more reflective and true to life than some of our previous releases.

It feels like we came into our own during the process of making this.
No label or people getting their intentions in the way, we just had so much music being written and we were proud of, we needed to let people hear it and we weren\u2019t gonna wait around until we could get into a studio.

It\u2019s given us the confidence to want to produce the album ourselves and it\u2019s the perfect end-step for us to show people what we are capable of and what we are all about. The songwriting is better than it has ever been and things are only getting better from here.”<\/em>

Stream the \u2018Facing Home Mixtape\u2019 in full via Spotify below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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