Viagra Boys release new single, ‘‘Ain’t No Thief’
They've also announced details of a new album
Viagra Boys have today (April 20) shared a new single, ”Aint No Thief’ – listen to the new track below.
The group also announced details of a new album called ‘Cave World’, which will arrive on July 8 via Year0001.
According to a statement, the album is “inspired by current events”, and “aims to tear through the insanity and confusion the world currently finds itself in.”
“I just wrote down, ‘Who is the true ape?’” frontman Sebastian Murphy also added in a statement. “People look down at apes as primitive life forms, but we’re just this horrible, lazy society killing each other and starting wars, while they’re able to love and feel. Does that make them the true ape or us?”
The follow up to their 2o21 album, ‘Welfare Jazz’ has been produced by Pelle Gunnerfeldt and DJ Haydn.
Listen to the new single and check out the album track listing below:
‘Cave World’ tracklisting:
1. ‘Baby Criminal’
2. ‘Cave Hole’
3. ‘Troglodyte’
4. ‘Punk Rock Loser’
5. ‘Creepy Crawlers’
6. ‘The Cognitive Trade-Off Hypothesis’
7. ‘Globe Earth’
8. ‘Ain’t No Thief’
9. ‘Big Boy’
10. ‘ADD’
11. ‘Human Error’
12. ‘Return To Monke’
News of the album comes just months after guitarist and founding member Benjamin Vallé died at the age of 47.
The news was confirmed in a statement on social media, posted on October 27. Alongside images of Vallé, the Swedish punk band posted a tribute to the late guitarist, describing him as “one of the funniest, goofiest” people they had known.
They said: “It brings me great sadness to say that our beloved friend and founding member of viagra boys, Benjamin, has passed. Benjamin was loving and kind and the sweet memories we have together are countless. i cant stop crying while going through pictures of you but also laughing because you were one of the funniest, goofiest, people i had the pleasure of knowing. benjamin or ‘benis’ as we knew him, spread laughter and happiness wherever he went and i will cherish the memories we have of touring the world together.”
The statement continued: “Benjamin, we love you with all of our hearts and Viagra Boys would have been nothing without you. This planet just lost one the good ones. I hope you’re somewhere up in space telling bad jokes to an alien. Goodnight my sweet boy. I’ll love you forever. Raise your glasses for benis. its what he’d have wanted.”