Today, Cardiff’s Panic Shack announce their long-awaited debut album, Panic Shack, ahead of a July 18th release on Brace Yourself Records.
The news comes joined by the album’s lead single and opening track ‘Girl Band Starter Pack’, a roof-raising start to proceedings that’s fizzing with the anticipation of walking into a club at the start of a night out. It opens with the rising sound of chatter, glass clinking and laughter, most of which was recorded in the beer garden at an Amyl & the Sniffers gig, in the process sounding like the party-punk equivalent to the intro of Spice Girls’ ‘Wannabe’.
Its accompanying video (directed by Ren Faulkner), meanwhile, sees the band enlist trouble-starting drag queens Jolene Dover, Lasagne Sheets, CiCi and Bopa Rhys to portray the band for a night on the Cardiff tiles.
“We wanted a music video that really heightened the vibe of the song, and thought who else could play us better than a bunch of sassy, sexy, stunnin Welsh drag queens?!,” the band explain. “All hail, Jolene Dover, Bopa Rhys, CiCi and Lasagne Sheets. They played us better than we play ourselves and have inspired us to dial our energy up to 11. We let the Queens loose on the streets of Cardiff, went to all of our usual haunts around the city and laughed until our stomachs hurt all day.”
The album is available for preorder HERE
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