Spunsugar have shared “San Jose”, the third single off their forthcoming album A Hole Forever via Adrian Recordings, available November 17th 2023. Spunsugar’s new LP ‘A Hole Forever’ will further discuss dense topics and expose the realities of coming to terms with internal shame. The album tackles themes about getting older and confessing dark secrets with the mindset that life is a slow death.

The Swedish trio’s video is almost a parody of the image from Sweeney Todd of Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter sitting at the beach. The Californian goth party feel of ‘San Jose’ to images of Spunsugar’s three resident goths enjoying a day at the beach feels so wrong but even more right. The grainy camera quality adds to the gothic feel, really showing the band are new-wave to the core. Whereas the thunderous bassline in the verses of ‘San Jose’ cement its new-wave feel, the surf punk chorus and gritty distortion set this firmly in its own category of Spunsugar, not just any new-wave ensemble.

The band said, “this song is an homage (and sort of a response) to the Dione Warwick song “Do you know the way to San José” (1968). This is a song about dreams, mainly, broken ones. About pumping gas for the people who achieved theirs. Fittingly, this song has a beachy indie vibe paired with a grungey sound. It lulls you in with a crisp coolness, and then hits you with a distorted riff that chugs away under breathy shoegaze vocals”.

Growing up farmer offsprings, bible belt kids of fundamentalists and trailer trash in small towns of Sweden, Spunsugar are based in Malmö, Sweden and consist of band members Cordelia Moreau, Elin Ramstedt and Felix Sjöström.. Each member carries a separate musical background, leading to a melting pot of their distinct influences. Some of the group’s sound is inspired Cocteau Twins, Red House Painters, Hole, Electric Youth, Ramones, and Misfits.

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