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London-based collective KEG are delighted to announce details of their highly anticipated debut album Fun’s Over, set for release 14th March 2025 via Alcopop! Records.
Preorders are live now with the album available on CD and a special Dinked vinyl edition, in midnight blue/clown red galaxy swirl, complete with a fully signed linograph print by Joel Whitaker based on a painting by singer Albert, with a cut out and keep mask of Frank, the band's undeniable #1 heartthrob and guitarist.
The band are also pleased to announce they will also be embarking on an Independent Venue Week tour in Jan/Feb 2025, with an additional run of March 2025 instore tour dates around the record, and tickets are available now for all shows from the album preorder link at: https://shor.by/FunsOver
To round out the bumper album news celebrations, KEG have additionally revealed new single ‘I’d Fly Tip For You’ which is released on 20th November 2024 via all good digital service providers.
Another eclectic cut from the album showcasing the band’s classic, pared-back approach to songwriting, ‘I’d Fly Tip For You’ snakes along on top of a wave of wonky synth, trombone, and handclap grooves before collapsing into a French New Wave middle eight.
Commenting on the track, the band said: “This song is a declaration of undying love. A straight down the line, no nonsense love song in the vein of Barry Manilow, THE Spice Girls or Procol Harum. Intended to be listened to as a thousand doves are blasted into the sky, whilst you and your beloved spin in unprecedented ecstasy on the ballroom floor.”
Their forthcoming debut album Fun’s Over represents the culmination of KEG's initial forays into life, and as such leaps all over—from the melodic to the demented with all the enthusiasm of a very lively bean salad. Sharp angling guitarwork that would be at home both on a Fugazi or a Wilco record. Cascading synths and drums, pepperings of trombone and lyrics which invite you into a baffled man's brain full of joy and anxiety.
Contrary to the previous releases the album takes its time, allowing Keg to showcase the orchestral leanings of the band, melding textures and battering-ram rhythms, whilst all the time managing to hone their carefully manipulated balance of chaos and order.
Recorded between the studio and home, Keg have refined their DIY approach this time around, producing the record themselves with engineering help from Pozi’s Toby Burroughs and mixed by Connor Simpkins.
Offsetting the braggadocious shredding and bombastic instrumentation the lyrics on the album take a much less cocksure approach—beckoning you into a yearning for suburban living, slightly embarrassing admissions of inadequacy, the feeling of creative failure freeing the imagination, taking pleasure in the mundanity of an unsure mind, bathing for freedom, and just a couple simple love songs.
Lead single ‘Sate The Worm’ was released in September 2024, following on from standalone single ‘Michael Phelps’ released earlier this year, and picked up a flurry of excitement from long-term supporters at DIY Magazine, The Line Of Best Fit, CLUNK Magazine, God Is In The TV Zine, BBC 6music, Radio X and more.
The band recently appeared at Mutations Festival, Brighton and will round off the year supporting rising sensation Nuha Ruby Ra at Southbank Centre, London on 21st November, before finishing up with a London headline date at Paper Dress Vintage on 11th December 2024.
KEG release their anxiously awaited debut album Fun’s Over on 14th March 2025 via Alcopop! Records
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