Jamie Lenman is back with new single You’re Nothing, taken from his forthcoming new solo album, the delightfully-titled Puke.

After surprising fans with his first new song in three years, Not Likely, in April, Jamie promised he had more new music in his back pocket. That music has now materialised, and the new full-length will drop on August 7.

The new single is, Jamie says, “about putting people away, especially people who seem to think their views are in some way clever or important.

“Really I'm talking about the kind of bigot who absolutely can't help themselves from spouting hurtful nonsense, or someone giving it the big I Am. I'm just trying to take these people down a peg. You know, why should we listen to you? Sit down mate.”

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Puke will only be available on Bandcamp, which fan can buy for whatever price they choose. As Jamie explains, that approach to releasing music proved more successful than he could have predicted when he did it with the release of Not Likely.

“When I put Not Likely on Bandcamp in April for pay-what-you-want, I made more money than any other single I've ever released, and actually more than some of my entire albumsm,” he says. “All of that goes straight back into making more art, so I'm very much hoping that by putting the whole of Puke on that platform under the same terms I might be able to fund a larger, more focussed project with the proceeds. Whether you join the Patreon for a quid or send 50 pence to the Bandcamp, it all goes in the same pot and it all means the same thing: more music from me.”

Puke was recorded over a two-year period, made in fits and starts when Jamie felt inspired and not with the end goal of creating a proper body of work.

“I made this album completely by accident and, really, it's not an album, although it is unified by the fact that nothing took more than a day to make, and I didn't do more than three takes of anything. That method lends itself to a punkier, more aggressive sound, so it does have a certain accidental cohesion. I spent a lot of time really crafting my last album, and this is a response to that process.

“I did the first couple of tracks with Luke Pickering just for fun, purely because he invited me to the studio, and then later I discovered that one of my heroes (Dick Crippen, bass player for '70s punks Ten Pole Tudor) had a place just down the road, so I more or less booked the session just so I could meet him and then I had to bring some songs to justify that.

“By that time I was enjoying it so much that I would end up finding a studio and/or an engineer wherever I was, just to give myself some time to experiment or to make a connection. So one of the tracks I did in Birmingham whilst visiting a friend, one I did in a studio next to my house that I didn't previously know existed, just for the craic and to see what would happen. And by the time I had a handful, I realised I should probably put them together in some form so people could hear what I'd been up to.”

The whole project - “from the actual sessions to my train fare and even the sandwiches I bring with me” - was funded by subscriptions from his Patreon.

“That's revolutionary for me, a totally new way of working without the pressures and expectations of a traditional label-artist setup and has resulted in my falling back in love with the studio,” says Jamie.

“It was never my intention to use those funds to make a new album, but I found I had a small sum left over from paying the bills, so I was able to use it for that purpose and here we are. I rely on my Patrons and they get the best of everything - not just first dibs on all the new material, but unheard demos, artwork, videos, everything. It's a total game-changer for me”

Jamie Lenman plays ArcTanGent Festival, August 19 - 22.