UK band Crows share new single “Is It Better?”, along with a new video. the track is lifted from their forthcoming album Reason Enough, available September 27th via Bad Vibrations Records. “It Is Better?” is a true reflection the difficult year singer James Cox has whilst writing the album. He explains further, “It’s a homage to the friends and my family who helped guide me get through it. It’s also a reflection on having gone through something and not coming out unscathed – dealing with the damage I picked up along the way, and accepting my new reality.”

On Reason Enough, the band worked with Mercury Prize-winning producer Andy Savours, who’s previously collaborated with the likes of Black Country, New Road and My Bloody Valentine.

The band work with Manoela Chiabai (Depeche Mode, IDLES, Future Islands) for the video, he says “When I heard ‘Is it better?’, I thought there was something so incredibly absurd about the lyrics and the title that poses an impossible question. I started to think about a man that feels dead inside and just wants to escape life, but not even at his own funeral he can find peace, and as such he finds himself in some sort of a loop.

This attempt to divorce ourselves from the world is actually what represents the inescapable human condition. As the song is very catchy and upbeat, leaning into the absurd with ridiculous humour and playfulness was fun and interesting to explore – having Crows as cameos getting into the most stupid fight ever over a double dipper was so gratifying! It was by far one the funniest experiences I’ve ever had on set.”

Crows includes James Cox (vocals), Steve Goddard (guitar), Jith Amarasinghe (bass) and Sam Lister (drums), swapped their usual rehearsal space, a small studio in Homerton, East London, for the cavernous walls of a “weird little studio” – as Goddard puts it – in Stroud, Gloucestershire. More specifically, a former Catholic church and convent. The band parked themselves up in the church’s crypt, which was more conducive to inspiring the foundations for Reason Enough. Armed with dozens of ideas, they returned to London in a bid to finesse them all.

Crows
Reason Enough
Bad Vibrations Records

01. Reason Enough
02. Bored
03. Is It Better?
04. Vision Of Me
05. Land Of The Rose
06. Every Day Of The Year
07. Lie To Me
08. Living On My Knees
09. Silhouettes
10. D-Gent

Crows 2024 Tour Dates

Oct 5 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club
Oct 9 – Brighton, UK @ DUST
Oct 10 – Manchester, UK @ The Deaf Institute
Oct 11 – Glasgow, UK @ King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut
Oct 12 – Dublin, IE @ The Soundhouse
Oct 14 – Nottingham, UK @ Rough Trade Nottingham
Oct 15 – London, UK @ Village Underground
Oct 17 – Bristol, UK @ Exchange
Oct 18 – Hebden Bridge, UK @ The Trades Club
Oct 18 – Cardiff, UK @ Sŵn Festival
Oct 28 – Cologne, DE @ Yard Club
Oct 29 – Hamburg, DE @ Turmzimmer
Oct 30 – Copenhagen, DE @ Loppen
Nov 1 – Berlin, DE @ Urban Spree
Nov 8 – Kortrijk, BE @ Sonic City
Nov 9 – Luxembourg, LU @ Rotondes
Nov 10 – Nijmegen, NL @ Doornroosje
Nov 13 – Lille, FR @ L’Aeronef
Nov 14 – Paris, FR @ La Maroquinerie
Nov 15 – Tours, FR @ Au Temps Machine
Nov 16 – Rennes, FR @ Antipode MJC Rennes

pre-order Reason Enough by Crows HERE