Photo: Ren Faulkner

Following last month's return announcement with Bed Bugs, Cardiff's The Family Battenberg have today revealed Brand New Boy, taken from their forthcoming debut album Super Deluxe - due out 20th November via Stolen Body records. Led by razor-sharp guitars and their distinct, charged-up angst, the band’s latest offering provides another exhilarating glimpse of what lies ahead. Speaking more about the song’s conceptual lyric, guitarist/vocalist Ethan Duck says: “Brand New Boy is a tongue-in-cheek poke at how weird it is that we need to constantly seek validation from other people. The track imagines absurd lengths one might  go to be accepted,  here taken to points of extreme bodily harm. The version you hear is the first version we wrote, played exactly how we would live - one guitar, no edits, improvisations in the studio all kept in.”  Take a listen for yourselves below along with a list up newly announced live dates. 

UK Headline tour dates:
2 DEC // London, The George Tavern
3 DEC // Southampton, The Joiners
4 DEC // Carmarthen, CWRW
5 DEC // Liverpool, The Jacaranda
8 DEC // Birmingham, The Sunflower Lounge
9 DEC // Leeds, Oporto
10 DEC // Sheffield, Hallamshire Hotel
11 DEC // Newport, Le Pub
12 DEC // Manchester, The Abbey

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