At the start of the summer So Young Records – whose recent releases have included Vlure, Been Stellar and Lime Garden among others – announced the signing of Humour, a Glaswegian group still in their relative infancy, but one who arrived musically fully-formed, pairing together fragments of off-kilter post-punk, erratic indie-pop and discordant post-hardcore, delivering a sound that is at once disorientating and immediate. Early shows in support of Do Nothing, Folly Group and DEADLETTER have already marked them out as a must see live band, propelled by the unhinged lyrical energy of front man Andreas Christodoulidis.
In only a few months the band have gone from a debut single to establishing themselves as one of the most exciting new bands on the circuit, releasing an acclaimed debut EP in “pure misery”, a six-track record the band themselves describe as a “a montage of miserable things… a bit desperate and a bit grim, but also a bit ridiculous” available to buy direct from So Young here.
To celebrate the release, the band share a video for “Jeans”, a pulsing slice of after-hours punk and one of the darker, more swaggering moments on their debut record.
The band had the following to say about the final single from the EP:
“Jeans is about a character who is internally trying to build himself up and convince himself that he’s a successful and confident no-nonsense man. But he periodically has lapses in this forced self-assuredness and realises that he is not any of those things and is in fact quite a sad, pathetic and laughable character. Much like myself.”
Humour live together in Glasgow and formed across the 2021 lockdowns, writing and recording their material at home, with the music intended as a backdrop to Andreas’ lyrics. Sometimes they’re about letting people down, sometimes they’re about pets dying, sometimes they’re about trying to say something when you don’t have anything worth saying. They’re usually just trying to paint a picture, with Andreas drawing sketches to go along with each of their songs, including the EP cover, and the artwork and visuals behind the lyric videos for both “yeah, mud!” and “alive and well”.
They hope that each song looks the way that it sounds.
