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Following the announcement of their debut album Violent Delights out 6th June via Hassle Records, 6-piece Jools share new single 'Live Deliciously'.

Lead vocalist Kate Price explains, "Live Deliciously explores a personal struggle between a person's masculine and feminine sides, framed through the lens of a bar fight between those two conflicting sides. It’s a journey through that battle, eventually culminating in the desire to shed any internalised fears and external pressures, and to be seen and heard for exactly who you choose to be, without fear of judgement. The title is a reference from the Robert Eggers film The Witch and for this song, it’s a desire for anyone who has struggled with their gender or sexual identity to be able to live their lives without fear or shame."

'Violent Delights' is an anthology of stories that meanders through themes of grief, rage, desire and identity. There are stories of the toxicity of addiction, and growing up around religion; stories of overwhelming obsession, isolating abandonment, and empowering anthems of identity, and stark laments about sexual violence. They are each lived experiences, laid bare, reclaimed with every syllable whether dripping in spite or swagger, anger or anxiety. 

Jools equally lend from the worlds of metal, rap, post-hardcore and hip-hop as much as it does the post-punk of its surface layer. At face value, this record could read like a tragedy, but they want it to feel like a celebration - it’s about confronting tragedy.