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Public Access T.V. have announced their debut album ‘Never Enough’

Listen to lead single ‘Sudden Emotion’ here, along with a Q&A with the band.

30th June 2016

New York rockers Public Access T.V. have announced that their debut album ‘Never Enough’ is set for release on 23rd September via Cinematic.

Zane Lowe premiered lead single ‘Sudden Emotion’ on Beats 1 yesterday and it’s a hook-laden, hip-shaking taste of what’s to come on a record that was made in New York, Nashville, London and Henley-on-Thames.

The announcement comes as the band gear up for a string of UK festivals and gigs, including July dates that see them support FIDLAR in London for the second time in just over a year and headline The Old Blue Last.

Listen to Public Access T.V’s new track ‘Sudden Emotion’ here, and keep scrolling for an exclusive DIY interview with the band’s John Eatherly.

What’s the story behind ‘Never Enough’s title?

We sat on that title for a little bit because it was one of those things where it just made a lot of sense to us…kind of looking at it in two ways…’Never Enough’ in an overconsumption, overdoing it kind of way, then also ‘Never Enough’ like we’ve all been in this game and playing music and doing this shit for a little bit now [and] no matter what, nothing ever seems to do it. I always land on what means a little bit to me over some shocking, cool words together. I kind of get stuck on things [and] I probably came up with 20 other titles but I just kept on going back to that one.

What led you to record the album in so many places?

It wasn’t intentional by any means to record it in that many places. When we were in England last summer, we were kind of living there after we lost our place in Manhattan – our apartment burned down when we were on tour and it was absolutely awful. Basically, we had plans to go to England anyway, and then we made the most of it and stayed there a lot longer than we would have originally just because we didn’t necessarily know what we were coming back to living-wise in New York. The real beginning of the record was in England.

The [studio] in Henley was pretty insane; it was real luxurious being out in the country. It seems like maybe some of the nights there when we were driving to the studio, there was some kind of crazy rich people parties on the water. We didn’t partake in any of that. It was actually the drummer from Jethro Tull’s studio, oddly enough

Where did you most enjoy recording?

Probably [Henley]. That was crazy because I never thought that I’d be in a house recording in the country – and we were living in the house too. The area that we slept in was a bunked area in the attic basically, so we’d get up and mosey downstairs to the studio and then work ‘til we pretty much just went upstairs to pass out and then do it again the next day. So that was really cool because I’ve never been in that kind of situation where you’re just totally isolated from the world, recording in and studio [and] living there. It’s pretty wild not to have any escape. In London and even more so in New York, there’s a lot of distraction and your vibe can easily be elsewhere and it’s hard to stay totally ‘in it’ and focused, but being out in the country is insane. It felt ridiculous; it felt like were in a time machine making a record in the 70s.”

How did recording some of the album in England affect the end product?

Coming over there and playing shows and being in the heat of things, it really felt like less of a craft. It felt way more like getting out some aggression. It was way more the four of us expressing and I think a lot of that came from being over there and playing shows and the attitude of our friends and where we were at the time – coming there and staying there because we were kind of stranded in a way. It was a very heavy influence.

What’s the experience of being a new band in New York like in this day and age?

It’s a difficult place to stick it out and [be] a band. You’ve got to stick it [out] through not having any money and living on your friends’ couches and doing whatever. We’ve stuck it out. A lot of people that I moved here with when I was younger didn’t – as soon as shit got uncomfortable for them or a little bit rough or they didn’t live in their comfort zone, they left. We’ve all stuck it out here through [shitty] and less shitty situations. It’s not like living in your mum’s house or a house in Middle America where you can play the drums at night and it’s easy. It’s a little bit more difficult, and we’ve stuck with it and figured out a way to do it, and as far as getting stuck in any kind of past legacy and shit like that [is concerned], I don’t know that people even care.

So what do you think is the key to succeeding there?

I think just persistence and staying grounded. For me, as far as that persistence goes, it’s been easy because my close friends that I play music with have had the same goal as me. It’s just been natural because we’ve all loved living here anyway and it’s become home to all of us. Do what you need to do to be somewhat happy and be able to work and be able to be creative. Those can all be difficult things to do and I think that I’ve been lucky being here with my friends who all want the same thing as me.

Catch Public Access T.V. live in the following places:

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03 Vice/Noisey Festival of Independence @ South Street Seaport, New York
10 i-Days Festival, Milan, IT
12 Brixton Electric, London, UK
16 Truck Music Festival, Oxfordshire, UK
23 Old Blue Last, London, UK
30 Soup Kitchen, Manchester, UK
31 Y Not? Music Festival, The Giant Squid, Derbyshire, UK

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