Human Music

"An absolute one-of-a-kind band of six humans invading the stage to deliver the most f**ked up rock'n'roll circus extravaganza you could ever imagine. Pumping drums, frenetic percussions, scruffy guitars layered with some acid drenched synth lines, a frontman that delivers rough-edged vocals to paint a gritty and brutally detailed comedic satyre, like a drunk prophet would tell us that god doesn't exist on top of a bar stool instead of mount Sinai." - Tom Stone, The Soft Machine

The wonderful, frightening and thrillingly demented Human Music. If I was a tedious music journo I'd say they sounded like a hungover Captain Beefheart on acid in space, but I'm not so I won't. But they do..." - Kit Battenburg, RT

Genre-bending crowd-pleasers Human Music have just announced their third single ‘Elevation’ [released September 17th] - a mellotron- and Wurlitzer-led vibe fest that marries classically uplifting pop songwriting with the naïveté of outsider art-brut. Elevation will be accompanied by a video, shot on location in East Sussex and Hampstead Heath and directed, edited and produced by the band themselves. On the day of release, Human Music will follow this with a headline show at the George Tavern promoted by C U Next Tuesday [with support from Getdown Services, May Rio and Plutoez Beach] - Saturday, September 17th. The song explores spiritual disillusionment as a metaphor for the inexplicable numbness of everyday life. With short stints as a wretched peasant and a novice monk, the song’s protagonist finally finds his true form as a mud-caked pagan lunatic thrashing around wildly in a pitch-dark forest.

He tells us that man-made concepts and structures of power are a spiritual prison and the only salvation is in untethered emotional self-expression. As the naked pagan dances with the focussed intensity of a man fighting for his life, the song explodes into its final emotional climax. A glorious, unabashed guitar solo from the days of old shreds its way to the end of the track as the singer repeatedly pleads with us: “where’s my salvation?” But it’s here - in Elevation. As spoken by the band, “Elevation is an exercise in sincerity. It’s a day-trip into wholeheartedness for a group whose main exports are irreverence and irony. This one comes from the heart, not from the head".