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Post-punk continues to innovate as a genre. One of the bands bringing the scene to the stages of Birmingham is the six-piece Baudelaire. They’ve garnered radio airplay, opened shows for fellow up-and-comers and sold out their own headline programmes across the UK and in Paris.
Now, the band returns with the dark but danceable grit of the single ‘Preacher’. It starts with a kick every beat beneath a telephone-processed vocal. The bass enters, followed by a guitar roar and the kind of synths you might expect to hear decorate a warehouse rave.
Dropping into the chorus they bring infectiousness and powerful vocals above a more full and energised set of instrumentation. The danceability continues, diving between the spoken word fury and a riotous chorus, rising to a huge climax to round out three minutes of unapologetic protest.
The band describe the track to be, “Abrasive and frenetic – ‘Preacher’ is a noise-rock takedown of those that claim to have all the answers.”
Listen to ‘Preacher’ here:
