Tijuana Bibles release video for new single ‘Slip Into The Leather’

5th December 2023 0 By Jon Deaux

Scottish post-punk quartet Tijuana Bibles have released a video for their new single ‘Slip Into The Leather’. The track is taken from their long-awaited debut album Free Milk, due for release on 8th December via Button Up Records.

Pre-order/pre-save Free Milk here: https://tijuanabibles.ffm.to/freemilk

In the band’s own words, the narrative of the video is “Boris Johnson: Cheese and Wine Party for One.”

They add on the single:

“‘Slip into the Leather’ is about consumerism, selling sex, keeping up with the Jones’s. Kicking against all of that! “They tell you to pray to keep you on your knees…” alludes to religious and political systems being used to create hierarchy, to maintain control for the powers that be. However, more and more these people are being exposed for the crooks they really are. And we’re here for the downfall with jelly and ice cream!”

Tijuana Bibles will play a series of shows this month in support of their new album, see them live at one of the following dates:

Dec 07: London Signature Brew Haggerston
Dec 08: Liverpool EBGBS
Dec 16: Glasgow King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut

Dislocated, fractured and angry, yet modern Britain never sounded so good…

Tijuana Bibles‘ debut album Free Milk arrives in a disjointed nation, a backdrop of war, protest, strikes and political confusion. That sense of purpose, anger and energy permeates every word and note.

Modern Britain, in the current political climate, stands at the abyss and this album is the soundtrack to it. Free Milk resonates with searing guitars and post-punk angst, a primal commentary in a dystopian society. It is the perfect album for now. It has all the ingredients; disquiet, defiance and a haunting visceral energy.

“This album is a love letter to the power of community and a celebration of resistance,” says vocalist Tony Costello. No one is going to argue with him.

The songs are volatile, snarling, subversive and provocative. As it should be, lyrically there’s cynicism and dismay and in times like these, we need albums like this.

Tijuana Bibles, with Tony Costello on vocals, his brother Danny Costello on bass, James Brannigan on guitar and Mikey Dornan on drums are sonic conjurers. The album’s title track burns with the same disdain as ‘Ghost Town’ by The Specials, it’s honed from the same seam as Johnny Rotten and PIL. Opening track ‘Stateless’ is a call to arms, exploding from the same petrol-soaked rag as Idles or Bob Vylan. Free Milk ebbs and flows, it hooks and it punches, like a Buckfast-infused Nick Cave pub-fighting with King Gizzard, as Arctic Monkeys‘ evil cousins sneer from the corner table. It’s an album of controlled chaos, a sonic riot.

This is suburban desolation blues.

Welcome to the sound of modern Britain.
Free Milk tracklist:

1: Stateless
2: Pariah
3: Three is a Cult
4: The Wave
5: Architect
6: Free Milk
7: Unknown
8: Human Touch
9: Mothman
10: Slip Into The Leather
11: Billionairhead
12: Pill