Young Knives release antagonistic new single ‘Society for Cutting Up Men’

Young Knives have unveiled new single ‘Society for Cutting Up Men’ - a direct nod to extreme feminist Valerie Solanas’ infamous SCUM Manifesto.

“I really just wanted to write a song from this position. The basic idea is that women should rise up and the man is obsolete. It sounds extreme but when I read it she is so spot on about how men work and how we have deemed certain things to represent “success” and “power”, but really it can be argued that it’s all a myth and we are free to change this if we really wanted to,” says singer Henry Dartnell.

“So it’s an imagined female uprising where it’s not about a peaceful march, or using the traditional “male” routes to law changes etc., it’s about violently and passionately removing men from the picture. The Society for Cutting Up Men will rise to the top.”

A twitchy offering with a rattling, marching beat, the incongruous accompanying video finds the Oxford duo taking a deadpan turn around their local shopping centre, on the hunt for Christmas jumpers.

The track, meanwhile, is the latest to come from the post-hiatus band’s forthcoming comeback LP ‘Barbarians’ (4th September) - their first since 2013’s ‘Sick Octave’.