Virgin Kids make a mission statement with ‘Cracks in a Colour’

Every weekday, DIY’s new music know-it-all Neu brings you one essential new release to get obsessed with. Today’s Neu Pick comes from Virgin Kids.

London-based trio Virgin Kids share the same grime-under-fingernails, downright grubby mentality as fellow garage punks The Black Lips and Hinds. But with new song ‘Cracks in a Colour’, they form a gnarly manifesto of their own.

Traken from debut LP ‘Greasewheel’, this latest track fins Asher Preston (who initially started Virgin Kids as a bedroom project) and his bamdates shifting gears at will. Nonchalent-sounding verses will suddenly change pace, racing into a hellish, disgusting chorus that’s the equivalent of diving into a pile of sewage and swimming to the bottom.

‘Greasewheel’ is due out next March via Fluffer Records (UK) and Burger Records (US).