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Antony Szmierek offers up new track ‘Seminal’ featuring Los Bitchos’ Serra Petale
It’s the latest preview of his forthcoming second album, ‘The Heron’, due for release this August.
Manchester-born artist and poet Antony Szmierek has spent the past few months teasing his second album, and now, he’s given us another slice of it.
Having already shared two previous singles in form of ‘The Heron’ and ‘Chalk’, he’s now offered up a third taste in the form of the deliciously danceable ‘Seminal’. The track - which also features an appearance from Los Bitchos’ Serra Petale - gets lifted from his forthcoming new LP, ‘Decoding Birdsong’, which is set for release on 21st August via Mushroom Music/Virgin Music Group and follows his 2024 debut ‘Service Station At The End Of The Universe’..
Speaking (rather poetically, classic) about the track, Szmierek has said: “seminal (adjective):
1. attaching meaning to seemingly meaningless everyday occurrences and objects. microwave clocks, the sky, birds
2. important, life changing, monumental
“are you reading the signs from the universe correctly or are you only seeing what you want to see? an anthemic chorus screams loneliness and lack of control, but the verses remain hopeful. a push and pull that sees the whole thing collapse in on itself at the end over fizzing UKG and soaring guitar.”
Alongside the track itself, he’s also shared its accompanying video, which comes directed by frequent collaborator Zak Watson. Check it out, and dig into Antony’s upcoming live schedule - which includes dates for his his biggest UK/IE headline tour so far - below.
JULY 2026
04 Westival, Tenby, UK
10 Castlefield Bowl (w/ The Streets), Manchester, UK
11 Castlefield Bowl (w/ The Streets), Manchester, UK
24 Kirkstall Abbey (w/ The Streets), Leeds, UK
AUGUST 2026
13 Sziget Festival, Budapest, Hungary
15 Boomtown Festival, UK
19 Fighting Cocks, Kingston (Banquet Records performance)
20 Resident, Brighton (in-store performance)
21 Rock N Roll Circus (w/ The Streets), Norwich, UK
22 Rough Trade East, London (in-store performance)
23 Rough Trade, Bristol (in-store performance)
24 Rough Trade, Nottingham (in-store performance)
25 Jacaranda Baltic, Liverpool (in-store performance)
28 Big Feastival, UK
SEPTEMBER 2026
01 The Crown, Nantwich (Apple Stump Records performance)
02 Night and Day, Manchester (Picadilly Records performance)
05 Concerto Record Store, Amsterdam, NL (in-store performance)
07 Music Mania, Ghent, BE (in-store performance)
09 Rough Trade Berlin, Berlin, DE (in-store performance)
OCTOBER 2026
08 O2 Academy Leeds, Leeds
09 The Level, Nottingham
11 Cambridge Junction, Cambridge
12 O2 Academy Oxford, Oxford
14 CHALK, Brighton
15 O2 Forum Kentish Town, London
16 O2 Academy Bournemouth, Bournemouth
17 O2 Academy Bristol, Bristol
20 Queen Margaret Union (QMU), Glasgow
21 Newcastle University, Newcastle
23 Manchester Academy, Manchester
28 The Button Factory, Dublin
NOVEMBER 2026
21 Manchester Apollo (w/ John Cooper Clarke), Manchester
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