Please give a warm welcome to Spike Fuck! For ten years Spike Fuck has existed more as a messy myth than an artist — sporadic works forever poised on the precipice of triumph, rumors of death or insanity and so on. Today he returns with his long anticipated debut album 'evidence', due October 2nd.
The album is a brazen proof of life statement. Convicted by the outlandish idea of evidencing a ‘you had to be there’ mentality, the record honours the presence in body, a record to be felt, never to be rationalized. It isn’t a tell-all collection of songs about obsession, guilt, nor is it a document of the subsequent transformation, or enlightenment. Spike’s prior fixations on the questions of drug addict or ascetic, trickster or rockstar, have driven an unmitigated pursuit of knowing a ‘true self.’ This pursuit is no longer his chief concern, nor is he plagued by over conceptualization of who he is but simply, when he is. For this is Spike Fuck, and this is evidence.
With the announcement Sacred Bones are pleased to share the lead single “ALL BY MYSELF” — an expert fusion of new wave, glam and soul with a vocal performance that oscillates between being blasé, vulnerable and manic. With its feelgood, family-friendly punk doo-wop production, Spike is misleading on if his joy comes from the pride in solitude, or from loneliness. Check out the video, filmed and directed by Dylan Marriott:
