The Mossley band to release The Extended Play Of Cruelty EP in July.

Cabbage have released a new single titled Celebration Of A Disease and in true Cabbage form they have smashed it. Lee Broadbent’s vocals are point in this track, which alongside generous and epic guitar moments, are a force to be reckoned with. What a way to sample the forthcoming EP, The Extended Play Of Cruelty, with bringing this bold track to the front.

Celebration Of A Disease was inspired by an essay on pornography by veteran Throbbing Gristle and Chris & Cosey performance artist Cosey Fanni Tutti, and vocalist explains:

Cosey talked about porn in the 70s. You’d expect it to have been a nasty business then, but she said there was something artistic about it at that time. But she says it’s now pure capitalism, where everyone – especially the women – is treated badly, that there’s no artistic platform in it. Pornography now and lad culture put massive expectations on the relationship between men and women. It creates barriers between men and women, and sends out the message to men that it’s OK to be chauvinistic. It’s the celebration of a disease.

The Extended Play Of Cruelty is set for release on August 25th on CD, Cassette and 10 inch vinyl, and available as a digital EP from July 21st. Produced by James Skelly and Richard Turvey at Liverpool’s Parr Street Studios, the five-track EP is the Manchester band’s first release since signing to new label Infectious Music (Alt-J, Drenge, DMA’s).

Cabbage say of the forthcoming release:

‘The Extended Play Of Cruelty’ is our revisited conquest to our pop psychological platitudes. The deceit of man tests all in a moment of clarity and we deliver our position in a long search for Utopia. Our blend of fervent disdain is focused on local frustrations, whilst celebrating those who shall rise through the ashes.

Tracklisting

1. Celebration Of A Disease
2. Fraudulent Artist
3. A Network Betrayal
4. Ertrinken
5. Asa Morley

Playing two Glastonbury sets over the forthcoming weekend followed by a sold out show at Scala on the 29th of June, the guys are having a busy couple of weeks ahead of them. Not to forget Reading & Leeds, Latitude, TRNSMT, Festival No.6 and Kendal Calling as well.