Vile Imbeciles

From: Brighton

Profile: Vile Imbeciles’ origins date back to frontman and songwriter Andy Huxley’s original day job as lead guitarist with Brighton’s now defunct 80s Matchbox B-Line Disaster. Huxley left the Brighton-based band in 2005 after “a decrease in musical similarities” following the release of their second album The Royal Society.

Vile Imbeciles emerged soon after, with their debut album ...Ma in 2007. Flirting with the avant garde and slabs of guitar noise, the band polarised opinion, earning a 2/10 review from NME and 4/5 from Kerrang!. The follow-up Queenie Was A Blonde received a similarly confused reaction, but furthered their cause as purveyors of dirty avant-metal and free jazz.

Following the failure of third album Death Jazz, which was released as an uncommercial 30-minute B-side on the single Jennifer/Tribe, Huxley went to work in an insurance office. The experience inspired the title of the band’s new album.

“People would scream and shout at me over the phone,” he says. “After about six months of doing that I heard the man who sat next to me saying down the phone, ‘D... No, D. D as in W... No, D. D for W... D is for W.’” Huxley wrote ten of the songs in two weeks, lost two band members and gained two more.

The experience of recording was so intense he collapsed on the street during the sessions and was told by paramedics that he was stressed and drinking too much coffee.

Despite all that he says, “It is by far the best thing I have ever done. It mixes every single band I love into one. It is a reference to everything I love, but it is totally individual, and it all came out of a severe inner struggle.” Vile Imbeciles’ D Is For W, featuring this week’s download, is out on Tea Vee Eye on Monday, October 3.

Split Your Signature (right click on the track to download, left click to stream)

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