Watch: The Cribs Reveal Video For ‘Glitters Like Gold’

Watch (and interact with!) the brand new video from The Cribs for ‘Glitters Like Gold’ above.

The band have recently finished a UK-wide tour, including appearances at this year’s Camden Crawl, and will be playing a handful of festivals this summer including T in the Park.

The trio released their latest album ‘In The Belly Of A Brazen Bull’ back at the start of the month, which was recorded with both Dave Fridmann, and a certain Mr Steve Albini, so we wanted to find out just how the experience was.

“We were thinking about making the first record with Steve Albini, and that’s who produced ‘Chi-Town’”, says Gary Jarman. “He was someone who we wanted to work with for a long time. His swift approach, with a minimum of over-dubs, was great.”

And granted, he may have only contributed his talents to one track from ‘In The Belly…’, but his influence was evident throughout: ‘[Chi-Town’] was the only song which Steve did on the record, but the rest are the same in their approach, in that we tried to capture the energy of the room as much as we could, just not getting too caught up in nit-picking and perfectionism. Digitally, it definitely allows you to do that. I guess that works for some people, but for a band like us I think it’s better to not get caught up in that. The rest of the record follows in that vein but the [David] Friddman stuff was a bit more textural.”

“If you go in there [Albini’s studio] expecting to be recorded by a punk rock guy who’s been in punk rock bands for years, then you pretty much know what to expect then. And that’s really all Steve is. He’s really not as prickly or as cantankerous as a lot of people would have you believe. I think his general attitude just rubs up the straight people at record labels, which I can understand. So, he was great. We had a really fun time.”

And how does this latest album weigh up in comparison to the band’s older works? “We always tend to react against the previous records but this new record definitely has elements with are in common with ‘Ignore The Ignorant’. Really, we were just enjoying the more visceral element again, the playing together and trying to record it all as ‘live’ as possible. That was the thing that always seemed to get us excited in the first place. We just returned to that.”

Want to know more? Well, go listen to it yourself! ‘In The Belly Of A Brazen Bull’ was released on the 7th May through Wichita Recordings.