“Get Out” by Fews

"Get Out" by Fews is Northern Transmissions Song of the Day
Fews photo by Tobias Widman

FEWS have share new single ‘Get Out’ from their upcoming third album ‘Glass City’ via Welfare Sounds & Records. Hailing from Sweden, America & England, FEWS have built a fearsome reputation for their intense, live shows; touring across the UK and Europe with the likes of Pixies, Fat White Family, Bloc Party, DIIV and Crack Cloud.

The band’s previous releases, the 2016 debut album ‘MEANS’ and 2019’s ‘Into Red’, reflect worldly observations in broken mirrors and consider the uncertainty of contemporary life through the eyes of others; but ‘Get Out’ is the first time FEWS have turned their gaze inwards. The speaker-rattling single is underpinned by a relentless, unsettling synth loop intended to echo the overwhelming alienation that bassist Jay Clifton felt on his first time alone in Malmö, far from anything familiar.

Filmed and directed by the FEWS themselves, the accompanying video amplifies this discomfort; through a home video haze we witness plate after plate of food consumed by a party-hard protagonist determined to have a good time, until things literally fall apart. Perfectly capturing the band’s unsettling intensity; it’s unsavoury and grotesque but it’s also impossible to look away.

Starting with nothing but the ambition of creating something “punky and simple”, FEWS went straight back into the studio after releasing ‘Into Red’ to start experimenting with producer Joakim Lindberg. Leaving behind the comfort of production polish and resisting the urge to compromise for the sake of accessibility, the band’s imminent third album ‘GLASS CITY’ is unashamedly honest, defiantly raw and represents FEWS at their bracing, brutal best.

Fews 2023 Tour Dates
Live Dates:

Apr 22 – Plan B, Malmö, Sweden
Apr 26 – The Shacklewell Arms, London
Apr 27 – Ramsgate Music Hall, Ramsgate
Apr 28 – Rough Trade, Nottingham
Apr 29 – Lending Room, Leeds
Apr 30 – YES, Manchester
May 1 – Exchange, Bristol

Pre-order Glass City by Fews HERE

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