Inimitable Glasgow sibling duo Comfort return with the announcement of their highly anticipated new album What’s Bad Enough, and a new video and single titled ‘Real Woman’. The new album is due out May 5 via FatCat Records.
The new album comes on the heels of the band’s genre-defying FatCat debut All Fears, Fully Formed EP, which came out last year and saw the duo further push the envelope of the uncompromising beat-driven sound. Having developed their sound through years of intensive writing and performing in spaces aligned with Glasgow’s queer/punk scene, the band’s infectious energy and raw messages have seen them earn early plaudits at press both on record and for the sheer power of their live shows, having played alongside the likes of Armand Hammer, Goat Girl and Protomartyr.
Recorded with Tony Doogan (Mogwai, Belle & Sebastian, Teenage Fanclub) at Castle of Doom studios in Glasgow, the lead single ‘Real Woman’ is an uplifting and unashamedly confident track about frontwoman Natalie’s existence as a transwoman. Melding glitchy electronics and propulsive off-kilter beats with angular leftfield hip-hop vocals, the new single musically picks up where their latest EP left off, whilst continuing to explore deep-rooted systemic social issues and reductive ideologies around sexuality and identity.
‘Real Woman’ is an empowering track about the Transgender community and rising above intolerance, with lyrics such as “your prejudice is not my problem”, and “I’ve never had so much interest in what’s between my legs. I don’t blame them at all, I think I’m fit as well”. The track also sees the duo calling out the likes of J.K. Rowling. In the accompanying video which is filmed across Glasgow, Natalie at one point lifts her shirt to reveal nipple pasties of the author’s face, whilst singing “I’m as real as Rowling.”
Speaking on the single, Natalie says: “As I have gotten older and learnt to love myself, transphobic views have less power over me. I have begun to find them laughable in their ignorance. I want this song to capture the elation you feel when you rise above the people who hate you, when you leave them to writhe in the mire of their own short-sightedness. Transgender people have always been here, and we always will be, we are inevitable, resisting us does nothing but hold everyone back. It can be easy to create art which is bleak when you are insistently alienated, but I wanted this song to be playful and fun, because I am all these things, despite everything.”
What’s Bad Enough:
- Billionaire Potential
- Cowerdice In Numbers
- My Bias
- Never Been Ignorant
- No Honest Work
- Normal Till Its Not
- One Size Fits All
- Pride Of Britain
- Real Woman
- Same Shite Different Lad
