Perth, Australia’s Psychedelic Porn Crumpets have today announced they will be postponing their upcoming North American tour this spring and have shared the newly rescheduled dates set for the fall. 

The band’s Jack McEwan tells us, “G’day extremophiles! We’re sorry the worlds a bit weird right now and had to postpone a couple of shows, but rest assured we’ve locked in new dates and are scratching off the concrete on our cell walls counting down the days ‘till we return to your beautiful shores. It’s been two long dark years since we’ve left the comforts of our prison guard batons, the lager drenched sheets we cover ourselves to sleep in are almost ready to miss us, time to whip out the neck pillows and pain killers cause we’re heading back to THE U S of A! It’s going to be glorious.”

They are also dropping a new track today taken from their forthcoming album, Night Gnomes out on Marathon Artists/What Reality?Records April 22nd. “Bob Holiday” is a grimy, rustic track that pays homage to classic riffs McEwan remembers from his youth, like Lenny Kravitz’syy “Are You Gonna Go My Way?” “We’ve been trying to emulate that sound forever,” says McEwan, who also played in a Rage Against The Machine cover band when he was younger.

McEwan again…. “Quoted as being Danny’s favorite song on the record, this eccentric little rock’n’K-hole diddly could melt the fossils off a paleontologists book shelf. Jelly even woke up with a Jolly Roger tattoo after mixing the (soon to be) Pulitzer award winning anthem. The title of the track has nothing to do with the actor Bob Holiday who played Superman, I just thought it was a strong name, and it clearly is. The album was getting pretty dark and I wanted to write a track that would perk everyone back up, also I really wanted to write something that sounded classic, like it had been built in the 70’s and left to rust for 50 years until the old Crumpet mob got their filthy paws on it, drenched the relic in poor recording techniques and awful song artistry while polishing the absolute Aladdin out of it hoping Hendrix was inside. We think we got kinda close, and I like it’s rustic charms, I’ve still got 2 wishes left.”

That devil-may-care spirit is present on each and every song on Night Gnomes. With guitarist Luke Parish, drummer Danny Caddy, bassist Wayon Billondana and multi-instrumentalist Chris Young by his side, McEwan bunkered down in his home studio, creating a sonic pastiche that almost sounds like turning the dial on a temperamental old radio every few minutes.

“A lot of these songs are structured from the beginning, but then we add another part towards the end to really keep it interesting, even if it’s just for ourselves,” he says of the project, which was recorded at McEwan’s home studio in and around Perth. “Like on Fleet Foxes’ “Helplessness Blues,” every song has an ending that is completely different than the first part. That was the idea here.”
For all of its varied vibes, the album never skimps on massive rockers sure to delight Psychedelic Porn Crumpets fans across the world in 2022.