new music: johnny manchild and the poor bastards
Music genres shouldn’t exist anymore. For Johnny Manchild and the Poor Bastards, they never have. The band have seamlessly blended emo, jazz idioms, alt-rock, world music, and funk into their songs since 2016.
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Voluntary Animals is their latest single which founder/writer/producer/vocalist/keyboardist Johnny Manchild says is about the acceptance of how little control we really have to change things in the grand scheme of things.
“We seem to think as a species that we’re above everything, when we’re really just another animal running around and trying to comprehend the world. It feels better to accept that we’re just another small piece of everything, and we really aren’t superior in nature at all.”
Stream Voluntary Animals on Spotify below:
They’re also half-way through their US tour so you still have a chance to hear the song live and experience their on-stage theatrics! Click on your city for tickets below:
April 5 in Vancouver, BC at Fox Cabaret
April 6 in Seattle, WA at Funhouse
April 8 in Salt Lake City, UT at Kilby Court
April 9 in Fort Collins, CO at Chipper’s Horsetooth Lanes
April 10 in Denver, CO at Globe Hall
April 12 in Kansas City, MO at Minibar
May 3 in Oklahoma City at Resonant Head
For me, the band was a recent discovery and I’ve been obsessing over One Big Beautiful Sound since streaming it.
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