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Leicester/London's Jools share new single 'Limerence' - the closest thing you'll get to a love song from the band.

Violent Delights is their debut album out 6th June via Hassle Records, and tells the individual an anthology of stories that meanders through themes of grief, rage, desire and identity. There are stories of the toxicity of addiction (‘Dunoon’) and growing up around religion (‘Mother Monica’); stories of overwhelming obsession (‘Limerence’) and isolating abandonment (‘Violent Delights’). There are empowering anthems of identity (‘Cardinal’) and stark laments about sexual violence (‘97%’). They are each lived experiences, laid bare, reclaimed with every syllable whether dripping in spite or swagger, anger or anxiety.

The band explain on new single 'Limerence', "It’s about meeting someone and becoming instantly infatuated by them. It tries capture the giddiness you feel when you have a crush and its all you think about, all you dream about, talk about and they have you wondering whether the intense feelings you have are reciprocal or not. It’s a song about desire and how sometimes it can border on obsession and desperation and in the early stages of infatuation, you can become so obsessed you create a fictional version of a person that doesn’t exist anywhere but exactly there, in your head. It’s both euphoric and toxic in equal measure."

Jools - comprised of Kate Price, co-vocalist Mitch Gordon, guitarists Chris Johnston and Callum Connachie, bassist Joe Dodd, and drummer Chelsea Wrones - has been a name on the lips of clued-up fans and tastemakers since its collective of musicians found each other in the earliest days of 2023. Quickly gaining a reputation for their cathartic, unpredictable and specular live performances, the band have been consistently championed by BBC Radio One, including two ‘Tune of the Week’ placements on Daniel P Carter’s esteemed Rock Show.

Violent Delights was recorded across two week-long stints at Southampton's The Ranch studio in August and December of 2024, with Lewis Johns helming production and mixing duties. The album equally lends from the worlds of metal, rap, post-hardcore and hip-hop as much as it does the post-punk of its surface layer.