Lloyd singer tru album cover3/19/2024 ![]() Beyond that, more new music is on the horizon, with details to be announced soon. It’s nice to laugh through all this stuff again instead of having this really heavy cloud hung over us.”įollowing a handful of gigs since 2021 – and an intimate show at London’s Dublin Castle last night (March 22) – Tribes will return to the road next month for a headline show in Leeds and a series of support slots for DMA’S. “So much life has happened in between but still, at the core, it’s just us like it was in Scar Studios in Camden in 2008, playing at the most ridiculous volumes with no songs. A lot of the stuff fired in directions we haven’t been down before and I think the fact it was just us allowed us to pursue some different ideas.”Īs well as sparking new creativity for the band, reuniting has felt like “getting your identity back”, according to Lloyd. White added: “It was a bit like in scenes in Indiana Jones when they open the Ark of the Covenant and all the light comes out. The whole thing felt extremely fluid and very true to ourselves with Dan at the helm.” So it’s been such a creative experience – we tried the songs so many different ways and spent hours getting the guitars right and talking about the lyrics. On ‘Baby’, we’d rehearse it to hell and just go in and do it. “And you can try a million things at once – I don’t think we ever did that. “It feels like we can be ourselves, and we can say, ‘I don’t think this is going to work’,” Lloyd explained. ![]() Tribes’ sessions in Dorset were self-produced by White, eliminating the pressure or stress of working with an outside figure who might not understand what the band wanted. ![]() “We’d be recording acoustic guitar and we’d have to wait for the warheads to end,” White added. “It’s pitch black and there’s massive tanks firing artillery.” “It’s a spooky place and it’s so remote,” the frontman said of the area, which is in the middle of an “army range”. The song – and the other new music the band has in the pipeline – was recorded in a cottage next door to Lloyd’s home in Dorset, where White became resident during the pandemic. “Before, we were maybe a bit more isolated from each other.” “We’re doing this from a position of listening and understanding and just being there for each other,” he said. “I like the line ‘ Seven times around the sun and all I’ve got’s the shadow I’ve become’, because I think I felt like that – just endlessly ‘Oh, what was the name of your band?’ It’s not a nice feeling, feeling like you’re not doing your best.”įor White, the new single represents the four friends’ potential and support for one another. ![]() “It’s the end and the beginning,” Lloyd said, calling it a “bridge” between Tribes’ past and their new chapter. But ‘Hard Pill’ came out and that led into everything else.” “At that time, we weren’t planning to do a record – we were just going to do the show. “I’ve been producing bands since and I was in the studio and this riff came out with the first lyric – ‘ You looked me in the eye’,” White recalled. ‘Hard Pill’, a swaggering juggernaut of a song that feels true to Tribes’ DNA while feeling fresh and new, was the first track to begin to take shape. With that thought in their minds, new material started flowing. The spirit of the band, which has always been very happy, was back, and people were feeling the same, so it was exciting to jump back on it.” It’d been so painful – the break-up – and so many years of this void. “It was like, ‘Maybe we should be doing this’. The London gig was upgraded to Kentish Town Forum due to demand and also sold out. “The next one sold out, and then the next one sold out,” Lloyd added, referring to warm-up gigs in Sheffield and Manchester. ![]()
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