Flamingods announce new album and share latest single, ‘Gutterball’

Raised in Bahrain and based in London, Flamingods are back with news of a new album, ‘Head of Pomegranate’, as well as sharing a fresh single, ‘Gutterball’.

The quartet’s latest LP is both personal and political, with inspiration for its title coming from the Arabic translation of Ras Rumman رأس الرمان - the hometown of frontperson Kamal Rasool’s late father, a place where pomegranates were once grown. ‘Gutterball’, meanwhile, is a driving frenzy of fuzzy guitars and distorted synths which explores the all-too-familiar frustration of political dissatisfaction.

Discussing the track, Kamal explains that “‘Gutterball’ came to be simply by us wanting to create a Middle Eastern inspired punk / new wave track that would kill when we played it live. I wanted to mess around with political/satirical themes for the song, looking to protests and revolution for inspiration. The mantra of the song is ‘spit it out’ - if something is rotten, you don’t swallow it”.

‘Head of Pomegranate’ was recorded in Atlanta with Grammy-winning producer Ben H. Allen (Animal Collective, M.I.A), and will arrive on 13th October. It acts as the follow up to 2019’s ‘Levitation’, and will be celebrated with a handful of headline dates around England in November; catch Flamingods on tour at the following shows:

NOVEMBER

04 Margate, Elsewhere
08 Cambridge, The Portland Arms
09 London, Scala
16 Birmingham, The Hare & Hounds
17 Sheffield, Yellow Arch Studio

Listen to ‘Gutterball’ below: