Kula Shaker have shared a new video for their latest single ‘Lucky Number’, the final preview from their forthcoming album Wormslayer, due for release on 30th January.
The track opens the record and sets out the band’s current mood with confidence. ‘Lucky Number’ leans into the psychedelic rock foundations that have long defined Kula Shaker, with Jay Darlington’s unmistakable Hammond organ lines. Crispian Mills delivers the lyrics with humour and mystique, continuing his long-standing fascination with symbolism.
Speaking about the song, Mills describes it as a celebration of noticing connections in the everyday world, from recurring numbers to the sense that order and coincidence might be closer than they appear. It is a theme that fits naturally into the wider world of Wormslayer, an album that moves freely between psychedelic rock, folk textures, glam-inflected swagger and heavier, mantra-like passages.
The video for ‘Lucky Number’ draws on footage from the band’s Inner Circle shows last year, a run of intimate performances that included a special appearance at Liverpool’s Cavern Club. During the show, Kula Shaker were honoured with a brick in the venue’s Wall of Fame, marking another milestone in a career that stretches back to the mid-1990s.
‘Lucky Number’ follows recent singles ‘Be Merciful’, ‘Good Money’, ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’ and ‘Broke as Folk’, all of which point towards a record that embraces the band’s eclectic instincts rather than smoothing them out. With Wormslayer, Kula Shaker appear more interested in momentum and character than nostalgia.
The band will mark the album’s release with a series of acoustic in-store performances and signings beginning on 23rd January, before heading out on a full UK and European headline tour throughout February and March.
