Opus Kink have shared ‘The Sweet Goodbye’, the title track and fourth preview of their debut album of the same name, due 31st July via So Recordings.
The Brighton six-piece have spent the better part of a decade building one of the more distinctive profiles in UK underground music. Two critically acclaimed EPs, incendiary live shows and a sound that draws on jazz, country, post-punk, Ethio-jazz, Weimar cabaret and no-wave with equal conviction have earned them coverage from The Sunday Times, NME, Stereogum, DIY, Rolling Stone UK and three appearances on the BBC 6 Music playlist.
The album was produced and mixed by Grammy Award-winning Craig Silvey, whose credits include Florence + The Machine, Sam Fender and REM, and engineered by Dani Spragg, known for his work with Wunderhorse, English Teacher and Black Midi. The title track leans on cowboy guitars and what the band describe as a Soviet waltz, continuing the manic absorption of influence that has defined every Opus Kink release. Frontman Angus Rogers has described the song’s emotional core plainly: “A man sings a lullaby to his love on the eve of their parting. Tomorrow they will bid one another goodbye but not before delivering a last message to the world that made them.”
The band are Angus Rogers on vocals and guitars, Sam Abbo on bass and backing vocals, Fin Abbo on drums, Jazz Pope on keys and synths, Jack Banjo Courtney on trumpet and Jed Morgans on saxophone.
Upcoming dates include Rochester Castle with The Libertines on 4th July and Liverpool Olympia with Viagra Boys on 28th August, before a full UK and European headline tour in November and December closing at Paradiso in Amsterdam.
22 May – Foul Weather Festival, Le Havre
23 May – Bearded Theory, Derbyshire
4 Jul – Rochester Castle, Rochester (with The Libertines)
14 Aug – Les Perseides Festival, France
28 Aug – Olympia, Liverpool (with Viagra Boys)
26 Sep – Float Along Festival, Sheffield
17 Nov – Bootleg Social, Blackpool
19 Nov – King Tut’s, Glasgow
20 Nov – Wardrobe, Leeds
21 Nov – Band On The Wall, Manchester
22 Nov – Cobalt Studios, Newcastle
25 Nov – Thekla, Bristol
26 Nov – O2 Forum Kentish Town, London
28 Nov – Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
5 Dec – Point FMR, Paris
6 Dec – Le Grand Mix, Lille
8 Dec – Rotown, Rotterdam
9 Dec – Paradiso, Amsterdam
10 Dec – VOLT, Sittard
11 Dec – Helios 37, Cologne
13 Dec – Badehaus, Berlin
14 Dec – Bahnhof Pauli, Hamburg
16 Dec – Botanique, Brussels
