Martha have released a video for their new single Hope Gets Harder, taken from their forthcoming album Please Don’t Take Me Back.
“‘Hope Gets Harder’ is a song about England: a uniquely fucking terrible idea. A place governed by the most absurdly mediocre people in history. Selfish, rich, thick, malevolent ghouls propped up by a bootlicking, self-congratulating, stenographic, client-journalist news media that puts North Korea to shame. England is a grey, damp artifice, vibrating to a quasi-fascist background hum, where the majority live miserable hopeless lives, so that a tiny minority can live in extravagant luxury. As we lurch violently from one crisis to the next, it feels like the light of any hope for the future is slowly dying. But we have to try and find hope in one another, and together we have to fight like hell for a more socially and ecologically just world. No fate but what we make for ourselves. Abolish England. Fuck the king,” explain the band.
Like what you hear? Please Don’t Take Me Back is set for release on 28th October and can be pre-ordered HERE.
The band will be heading out on tour later this year, supported by Big Fat Big and you can see them live at the following dates:
November 2022
Fri 18th – NOTTINGHAM – Metronome
Sat 19th – LONDON – EartH
Sun 20th – MANCHESTER – Rebellion
Sat 26th – BRISTOL – The Exchange
Sun 27th – LEEDS – Brudenell Social Club
December 2022
Thu 1st – SUNDERLAND – POP Recs
Fri 2nd – SUNDERLAND – POP Recs
Sat 3rd – GLASGOW – Mono
