ASYLUMS unveil music video for their latest single Necessary Appliances.

The pop-punk boys from Southend-on-Sea once again prove why they really are ‘ones to watch’ with their new single, Necessary Appliances.

The upbeat tune serves up repetitive and energetic hooks, spiked with 90’s vibes that will make any Nirvana fan nostalgic, yet these boys have something new and exciting to offer.

Necessary Appliances was written during the general election last year, it’s about austerity, creative communities and disposable culture – singer Luke Branch says.

Cultural commentary as such, this is also the kind of song that will translate so perfectly to the live format, and with the summer Asylums have ahead of them, many around the UK will be fortunate enough to hear it.

Set to play several festivals such as Brighton’s The Great Escape, Camden Rocks and Bestival, just to name a few, Asylums are blooming and introducing something new and exciting to the British music scene.

It’s not only festivals that eyed out Asylums, the single was picked up by Annie Mac as one of her #newnames for April 2016 on BBC Radio 1. These boys are definitely onto something, hitting the likes of both NME, Q magazine and BBC, with the latter stating: “Remember the last time we heard of a great band from Southend-on-Sea – The Horrors? Well Asylums are just as good, but a whole load more colourful.”

The single is released with a crazy black and white video that definitely reinforce their band name in a visual form.

The video has a kind of technology sickness theme, it’s about staying in your room, in bed and sweating the anxiety of adult life out – Luke states.

The video is well put together and you would never expect that it was actually filmed in Branch’s bedroom. Like everything else Asylums do, it is very DIY, yet the finish is polished to pass as a professional production.

As if this single release was not enough, Asylums‘ debut album, Killer Brain Waves, will be released on July 29th via their own Cool Thing Records, and we can barely wait.

Words: Aurora Henni Krogh