unpeople announce their long-awaited debut album, we are unpeople, and drop new single, friends

Ahead of their Main Stage gig at Download this weekend, unpeople have announced that their debut album, we are unpeople, will drop on October 9 via SharpTone.

To celebrate, The Midlands riff machine have also released a new single, the heavy friends, which singer/guitarist Jake Crawford explains is about love, and being worried about it.

“It’s essentially a love song from the perspective of someone who is wholly sceptical about the very concept of love and what it’s come to mean in a modern context” he says. “I am essentially saying I am going to kill the very concept of love before it’s even had a chance to get a hold of me. I am that afraid of being that vulnerable.

“I'd rather not bother than risk saying something I don’t mean, and then pay for it emotionally down the line. I’m fully aware that this is not necessarily healthy, but the mind takes you to some strange places when strong feelings are involved.”

The new track follows recent single clouds, also taken from the album. Full tracklisting is...

we are unpeople

1. clouds
2. friends
3. the garden
4. swallow
5. bottle it
6. blueprints
7. haunted
8. waste
9. look up
10. kangareuben
11. smother
12. as you were

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