New Music: Iguana Death Cult – Pusherman

With the release of their Echo Palace album just a matter of weeks away, Iguana Death Cult have treated us to a featured track, the angular indie workout Pusherman. Like a tightly would Viagra Boys or Franz Ferdinand taking liberties with post-punk and 70s rock, the track is taut yet expansive, as the festival-friendly vocal melody and chorus entrance and energise the listener right from the off.

Reveals the Rotterdam-based group, “This is one of those songs that just sort of happened while fooling around. Talking about it now already feels kind of surreal but we were literally trapped inside my home because of the curfew that was installed due to Covid. Guitar in hand, we were reviewing the state of the world and the growing division and distrust we saw not only in the media, but amongst the people we know.”

They continue, “Someone joked that we should quit the band and go into the vaccine business and so, we had our chorus. A chorus that ends on a more serious note that we don’t want to be victims of our time. I tried to make the lyrics ambiguous enough that you don’t really know which side the narrator is on. In the end we’re just all people living different lives.”

Echo Palace is set for release on the 12^th of May via Innovative Leisure and can be pre-ordered in CD, vinyl, and digital formats on Bandcamp. Click here for streaming pre-save options.

Head over to the band’s Instagram and Facebook to learn more about the LP and upcoming gigs in the UK in April and Europe in May, culminating with an appearance at Trix in Antwerp on the 10th of June.