NEWS: GRIFTER premiere new track via The Sleeping Shaman; reveal album details

June 30, 2014 • Leave a Comment

Today, exclusively on The Sleeping Shaman, Grifter reveal a track off their forthcoming album,Return Of The Bearded Brethren, which will be out on August 12 in North America and August 18 in Europe via Ripple Music.

Grifter Guitarist/Vocalist Ollie Stygall comments on what we can expect: “The new Grifter album…10 songs of Grifter doing what they do best, rocking and rolling with a grin on their faces and a beer in their hands!”

Hear "Princess Leia" for the first time HERE.

It’s been nearly three years since English southerners GRIFTER released their self-titled debut on Ripple Music in 2011. That album was a critical success garnering impressive reviews and hitting the year-end best-of lists on such notable sites as The Obelisk, The Soda Shop, Chybucca Sounds, Heavy Planet and plenty more including the hallowed pages of The Sleeping Shaman. GRIFTER supported the release with a UK tour as special guests to Orange Goblin and slots at various festivals such as the inaugural Desertfest London and Freak Valley Festival in 2012 and in 2013 at Britain’s prestigious Bloodstock Festival and Hard Rock Hell.

It’s 2014 and GRIFTER are set to release their second album The Return Of The Bearded Brethren, once again through Ripple Music. Whereas the first album was a bunch of tracks the band had spanning their career up to that point, the new album was written with one aim in mind: to write a killer album that would hit hard from start to finish yet contained songs that would kick arse in their own right.The Return Of The Bearded Brethren picks up where the debut left off but builds in every way from the quality of the song writing and playing boasting a fat production courtesy of Rich Robinson.

The album, which includes many tales of Guinness, ’70s sex symbols, drinking regrets, religious folly and more, is slotted for to be released via Ripple Music on 12th August in North America, 18th August in Europe and will be available on CD, limited Vinyl & Digital formats.

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