Special Interest have shared their first new music for their new label home, Rough Trade. It’s called “(Herman’s) House” and it comes with a video co-directed by Special Interest and Juicebox Burton. The title character is Herman Wallace, the Black revolutionary of the Angola Three who was held for more than four decades in solitary confinement. Find the video below.
“Despite the sadistic torture they endured, they continued their fight towards Black liberation behind the prison walls,” the band’s Alli Logout and Maria Elena said in a statement. “This song bears witness to our wonder and desire to dismantle the oppressive systems that hinder our possibilities towards true liberation, to annihilate, to destroy and to rebuild with one another. It’s a battle cry for dreamers who persist in spite of and because. This song moves us and it grooves us towards this end, may we go forward but not by ourselves.”
The song’s limited edition 7″ is inspired by 1970s Rough Trade designs and, at participating stores on July 15, will be sold for the original Rough Trade 7″ price point of 99 cents. The B-side is Special Interest’s cover of Amanda Lear’s “Follow Me.”
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05-27 London, England – The Shacklewell Arms
05-28 London, England – Wide Awake
05-30 Paris, France – Point Ephemere
05-31 Rotterdam, Netherlands – V11
06-01 Antwerp, Belgium – Hetbos
06-02 Karlsruhe, Germany – Kohi
06-03 Hannover, Germany – Cafe Glocksee
06-04 Berlin, Germany – SO36
06-06 Leipzig, Germany – Institut Fur Zukunft
06-07 Hamburg, Germany – Molotov
06-10 Barcelona, Spain – Primavera Sound
09-12 San Diego, CA – The Casbah
09-14 Santa Ana, CA – Constellation Room
09-17 Los Angeles, CA – Primavera Sound