Ringlets have shared the blistering new single ‘Street Massage’ from their upcoming album The Lord Is My German Shepherd (Time for Walkies), which will be released on June 27th.
Following up the slyly-subdued ‘Heavenly Wheel’, ‘Street Massage’ leaps and bounds down crunching gravel guitar and traverses vast thunderous rhythms, stepping over shimmering strings – halting for the stop-sign stentorian vocal
delivery of Leith Towers.
Leith shares, “The song is about a low-wage masseur who plies his trade on the streets of Point Chevalier. It was originally about the International Dysphagia Diet Standardisation Initiative (IDDSI), and the plight of a clinician in trying to encourage support workers to adhere to mealtime plans and feeding safety protocols. As the song evolved, it became a reflection on the broader struggles faced by low-wage workers in care roles. It highlights the emotional and physical toll of jobs that often go unnoticed and undervalued, despite the immense responsibility they demand. The masseur in the song is an allegory for the overlooked nurturers.”
Accompanying the song is a music video centred on a staunch delivery from singer Leith, backed up by a posse of local battlers. The posse includes members of the bands Dale Kerrigan, Cruelly, Cold Ceiling, Mullbrain, Awning, and Blunt Dog. The nocturnal scenes of under-construction Point Chevalier are stitched together with psychotic flashes of forgotten video games of the 90s, philological imagery, and hand-drawn horoscopes from 17th-century England.
Ringlets – Street Massage
To be released on June 27th via Flying Nun Records and Leather Jacket Records, The Lord Is My German Shepherd (Time for Walkies) is the band’s shimmering follow-up to their distinct eponymous debut in 2023 and a vibrant expression of their singular song craft.
Produced by Ringlets – Arabella Poulsen (bass & vocals), Arlo Grey (drums), László Reynolds (guitar & vocals) and Leith Towers (lead-vocalist) – in Auckland at The Lab alongside Michael Logie (The Mint Chicks) and mixed by Isaac Keating at Abbey Road Studios, The Lord Is My German Shepherd (Time for Walkies) conjures mystic visions; takes raucous, unkempt yet solely committed turns, twists, and tiptoes delicately between the absurd and the divine.
The Lord Is My German Shepherd (Time for Walkies) is available for pre-order now on Translucent Green Vinyl with Obi Strip and on Exclusive Flying Nun Black.
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The Lord Is My German Shepherd (Time for Walkies)
The Lord Is My German Shepherd (Time for Walkies)
Tracklisting
01. Posh Girl Holds a Whip
02. I Was on That Roof Once
03. Half an Idiot
04. Street Massage
05. Rolling Blunts on the Dresden Codex
06. Heavenly Wheel
07. Ancient Gays
08. Sucking on a Surly Pout
09. Hit the Frog
10. This Year’s Hottest Movie
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