Rut

about this album

Rut is the debut studio album from indie-pop 4-Piece Tugboat Captain. Often cited as one of the hardest working groups in the London DIY scene, the band emerge from the sonic limitations of their previous homespun bedroom-pop efforts into higher fidelity, accompanied by their ramshackle orchestra of friends to present their most ambitious work to date. Whilst being a grand, symphonic baroque-pop record, the album loses none of the intimacy of the previous work that garnered significant critical acclaim across the UK DIY community. Tugboat Captain spent the last year secretly using free studio hours at Abbey Road, inviting a wide variety of friends and collaborators to feature on the new album, which will be released this October 16th on Glaswegian label Double A-Side Records. Whilst previous Tugboat Captain releases have focused on matters of the heart, Rut is something of a coming of age record, with Sgt Pepper’s-esque opening track ‘Check Ur Health’ introducing themes of living without agency and being less successful than your friends. This spans the album with second single ‘Day To Day’ closing the album as an anthem for Gen-Z apathy and frustration: “I’ll set the bar pretty low Each day’s a success if I can pay for my own smokes I am resigned to never own my home I’m not designed for hope” Although written well over a year ago, the recurring themes of stasis and frustration have become eerily prescient of a very strange 2020, none more so than on lead single ‘No Plans

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