Mutes get colossal on new track ‘No Desire’

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 Mutes. Birmingham post-punk outfit Mutes have a heck of a pedigree. Featuring members of Viv Albertine’s band and noise-mongers God Damn (who have recently been special guests of Wakefield’s finest The Cribs on tour). The band are now gearing up to release their debut album ‘No Desire’, out on Friday via FOMA, it’s seen them working alongside Dom James at Peckham’s 123 Studios to nine slabs of gut-punching rock. In advance of the juggernaut’s release, they’ve shared its behemoth of a title track – and that’s meant in more ways than one. Although it stands at just a touch over 10 minutes long, it’s such a colossal slab of rock that reveals an intriguing, adrenaline-pumping new element every step of the way. Filled with scuzzy riffs and deep, hazy vocals, it twists and turns, leading the listener through a labyrinth of scuzz. Keep an ear out for something a bit unexpected at the end too. You’ll have plenty of desire to listen to this one over and over again. So, strap yourself in for the ride and listen to ‘No Desire’ exclusively below.