{"id":39964,"date":"2024-03-29T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=39964"},"modified":"2024-03-26T21:19:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T01:19:29","slug":"kneecap-announce-debut-album-fine-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=39964","title":{"rendered":"KNEECAP announce debut album \u2018Fine Art\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Irish rap trio\u00a0KNEECAP\u00a0have announced details of their debut album,\u00a0\u2018Fine Art\u2019. Released via <a href=\"https:\/\/urgwbz8ab.cc.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001Ci5crffVtuf-k7QSvKRONT1WPF_L-KRrHfnfYVgbkLgJRz8lPs7FsgtyG9CXSBe5GsKR_3BBCnlpRNzUNnOuLUQyALnUCm1aa1IRJkP0P7HQI8Lz299RPzbAKzDGG8yzr45glIcvLwORwEOvouoFVYwZmV8e1oS1&amp;c=MKuYrTw_LFDtwZpZNcTpy-LKHxT6YaV7pp_Lszr3uN_Du9qmeVsR2g==&amp;ch=uLpp6zet7om3Ghp6JuFzbq17jaHvNlqU_xaz0r6hMuAK-kZBbXE5Cg==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Heavenly Recordings<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0June 14\u00a0and produced by\u00a0Toddla T, the 12-track album, which seamlessly merges Irish with English and satire with socially conscious lyrics, is fiercely intelligent, consistently hilarious and genuinely thought-provoking. Theirs is a voice which comes screaming from the too-often deprived areas of the North of Ireland, speaking in a language which is too-often ignored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trio of Mo Chara, M\u00f3gla\u00ed Bap, and DJ Pr\u00f3va\u00ed, who recently took this year\u2019s Sundance Film Festival by storm with their self-titled\u00a0Rich Peppiatt\u00a0directed semi-biopic film starring<a href=\"https:\/\/urgwbz8ab.cc.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001Ci5crffVtuf-k7QSvKRONT1WPF_L-KRrHfnfYVgbkLgJRz8lPs7Fsr81Xt_s1BmpZBaa4uDSgvbIut39Jbae6JI6QVBZvH_U4Tj7zAfsc4FoT_Tv0CrGQVXUeZ8Bt4Oy4ARccMevUL_9zm_pcJMa682E5vIbGC6Au-hGVf3ZB-YZ2um5_8QCqxN21IIirefC&amp;c=MKuYrTw_LFDtwZpZNcTpy-LKHxT6YaV7pp_Lszr3uN_Du9qmeVsR2g==&amp;ch=uLpp6zet7om3Ghp6JuFzbq17jaHvNlqU_xaz0r6hMuAK-kZBbXE5Cg==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0<\/a>Michael Fassbender, have today also shared the video for\u00a0<em>Sick In The Head<\/em>, the latest track to be taken from the album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sound of the Wu Tang&#8217;s<em>\u00a036 Chambers<\/em>\u00a0hidden behind a doorway on the Falls Road, <em>Sick In The Head<\/em> features a chugging old school hip hop groove and dual voices frustrated at reaching the ends of both their overdrafts and their tethers. Talking about the track, KNEECAP said: <em>&#8220;When working on the album we had periods of great productivity but also periods with a total lack of anything creatively. Towards the end of recording we hit a proper wall and this is the result.\u00a0Our mental health was being tested and we said f*ck it it we\u2019re doomed to mental torture we want to have some money to get through it. We\u2019ve had enough of it while being broke round Belfast.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch the video for <em>Sick In The Head<\/em> via YouTube below or listen via all platforms\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/urgwbz8ab.cc.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001Ci5crffVtuf-k7QSvKRONT1WPF_L-KRrHfnfYVgbkLgJRz8lPs7FsgtyG9CXSBe5WjmNupRmpUFqm9f3fldg9PckHOa2TvPb9BexymOA1QF0HmT6ov6Z-80Dd_fzBsu8437bHzispBApkaGkE7j5OpCj6IG9QYIHo_CzFuZ9o8M=&amp;c=MKuYrTw_LFDtwZpZNcTpy-LKHxT6YaV7pp_Lszr3uN_Du9qmeVsR2g==&amp;ch=uLpp6zet7om3Ghp6JuFzbq17jaHvNlqU_xaz0r6hMuAK-kZBbXE5Cg==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dDdnqCBPvFQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>T<\/strong><strong>our Dates<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mar 30&nbsp;\u2013 New Parish, Oakland, CA (w\/ Revival Season)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apr 02&nbsp;\u2013 Voodoo Room, San Diego, CA (w\/ Revival Season)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apr 04&nbsp;\u2013 Echoplex, Los Angeles, CA (w\/ Revival Season)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jun 15&nbsp;\u2013 Bergenfest, Bergen, NO<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jul 05&nbsp;\u2013 Rock Werchter, Werchter, BE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jul 11&nbsp;\u2013 Mad Cool Festival, Madrid, ES<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jul 13&nbsp;\u2013 Bitterzoet, Amsterdam, NE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jul 18&nbsp;\u2013 Heineken Big Top, Galway, IE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jul 20&nbsp;\u2013 Super Bock Festival, Lisbon, PT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aug 23&nbsp;\u2013 Reading Festival, UK<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aug 24&nbsp;\u2013 Leeds Festival, UK<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nov 14&nbsp;\u2013 Foundry, Sheffield, UK<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nov 15&nbsp;\u2013 New Century Hall, Manchester, UK<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nov 16&nbsp;\u2013 Barrowlands, Glasgow, UK<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nov 19&nbsp;\u2013 Rock City, Nottingham, UK<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nov 20&nbsp;\u2013 SXW, Bristol, UK<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nov 21&nbsp;\u2013 O2 Forum, London, UK<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When KNEECAP entered the studio with producer Toddla T in the summer of 2023, they quickly decided to scrap everything they had already prepared for the album they were about to record. Instead, they decided to build a pub together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Built on a West Belfast side street, The Rutz is a community boozer, in that the entire community uses it. All human life is inside, either thriving, striving or skiving.. Religious affiliations are irrelevant and the chatter is an intoxicating blur of English and Irish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the pub is currently just a figment of the band\u2019s imagination, all of the action on Kneecap\u2019s exhilarating first album \u2013 \u2018Fine Art\u2019 \u2013 takes place in The Rutz immersing the listener in a world thus far unrepresented in modern music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Across the record\u2019s twelve tracks and the interconnecting moments between them (recorded by the band and friends including DJ Annie Mac), the pub comes to life vividly, providing the perfect backdrop for the cast of characters that join the dots throughout the album. From the moment the idea was born back in Toddla T\u2019s studio, it was the obvious location to base the world of Kneecap in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Mo Chara \u201cWhen we got into the studio with Toddla T, we scrapped every song we had and started from complete scratch. T\u2019s idea was to tell the story of Kneecap. So the record was conceived as the listener stepping into Kneecap\u2019s world. That\u2019s where the idea came to set whole thing in a pub. You walk into a pub at the start, there\u2019s someone offering you a drink, there\u2019s a singsong\u2026 really, it\u2019s us taking you by the hand and leading you into our world.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KNEECAP\u2019s story began in 2017 with the release of their first single &#8211; C.E.A.R.T.A. (Irish for \u2018rights\u2019). The lyrics document a near miss with the RUC on the way to party, loaded up with enough illegal substances to warrant a stretch inside. While the track was quickly banned by Irish language radio station RTE for \u2018drug referencing and cursing\u2019, C.E.A.R.T.A. saw the band help usher Irish into the modern era thanks to some much-needed creativity with the terminology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Mo Chara \u201cWe\u2019re Irish speakers living in an urban area, the first or second generation to be born in the city. Traditionally it\u2019s a rural language after colonialism pushed it out west towards the sea. We wanted to bring the Irish language into the modern era by incorporating aspects of youth culture into it. There\u2019s a different lifestyle in the city to rural areas. There were no words for drugs in the Irish language so we had to invent them. We\u2019d recycle old words and apply them to modern things. That\u2019s part of the world we want to create, where the Irish language is central and it\u2019s modern.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Mogla\u00ed Bap \u201cThe beauty of Kneecap is that we not only piss off people from the Unionist background, we also piss off people from the Irish community.. We don\u2019t discriminate who we piss off. There\u2019s conservative people in the Irish language community who think that the language should be sustained as an ancient language in all its beauty. They think we\u2019re ruining the language with the words we\u2019re using. But you start to hear young people using some of the words we use in our songs, referring to drugs or party life. That feels like we\u2019re having a positive effect on youth culture.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Featuring vocal contributions from Lankum\u2019s Radie Peat, Grian Chatten of Fontaines D.C. and Jelani Blackman, that positive effect comes into its own on Fine Art. A hip-hop record in the sense that the glorious sprawl of \u2018Check Your Head\u2019 was, its approach to modern music is magpie like, reflecting how an evening of music might evolve at a festival, or inside the right kind of pub. Where the band\u2019s previous mixtape 3cag reflected life and issues in Ireland at the point of recording, \u2018Fine Art\u2019 was always intended to be about the band themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/B6882F5F-26C6-41B4-B97F-ECB4052B2323.jpeg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"782\" height=\"784\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/B6882F5F-26C6-41B4-B97F-ECB4052B2323.jpeg?resize=782%2C784\" alt=\"KNEECAP Fine Art cover artwork\" class=\"wp-image-39966\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/B6882F5F-26C6-41B4-B97F-ECB4052B2323.jpeg?w=782 782w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/B6882F5F-26C6-41B4-B97F-ECB4052B2323.jpeg?resize=300%2C300 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/B6882F5F-26C6-41B4-B97F-ECB4052B2323.jpeg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/B6882F5F-26C6-41B4-B97F-ECB4052B2323.jpeg?resize=768%2C770 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 782px) 100vw, 782px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2018Fine Art\u2019 track listing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. 3CAG (ft. Radie Peat)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. Fine Art<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. Ibh Fiacha Linne<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4. I\u2019m Flush<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/urgwbz8ab.cc.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001Ci5crffVtuf-k7QSvKRONT1WPF_L-KRrHfnfYVgbkLgJRz8lPs7Fsr81Xt_s1BmpjfZIc-I9iUC1Ujbr7_PMj0jDCzyh0hc4mvCuB-ESv8orQr0j78ple9Ced0PxHsuZ7rzFgHkiUMid0PiIzNWkEeU4gDaHb2bCQjAGhujgunY3fmTTaFbXGg==&amp;c=MKuYrTw_LFDtwZpZNcTpy-LKHxT6YaV7pp_Lszr3uN_Du9qmeVsR2g==&amp;ch=uLpp6zet7om3Ghp6JuFzbq17jaHvNlqU_xaz0r6hMuAK-kZBbXE5Cg==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Better Way To Live (ft. Grian Chatten)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6.\u00a0Sick In The Head<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7. Love Making<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8. Drug Dealin Pagans<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9. Harrow Road (ft. Jelani Blackman)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10. Parful<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11. Rhino Ket<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12. 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