New Music: UK punk artist Louise Distras releases video to accompany upcoming single 'Aileen'
- Billy Jackson
- Sep 29, 2016
- 2 min read
Exhibiting the defined benefits of a punchy yet haunting jaunt, Wakefield's sharp shooting folk punk outrider Louise Distras's latest single 'Aileen', is a heavily anticipated follow up from her critically acclaimed 'Dreams from the Factory Floor'.
Already having snagged the interest of UK alternative music giant Kerrang, her new material certainly looks set to fill its predecessors boots. Aileen is due to be released worldwide on 30th of September.
Despite being addictively upbeat in it's musical profile, the single blooms from roots of grit and gravity, drawing it's namesake and inspiration from an American justice documentary by Nick Broomfield. The story birthed the 2003 Charlize Theron movie 'Monster' and chronicles the dark woes and debatable justice served to the impassioned vendetta of mentally ill female serial killer Alieen Wuornos, sentenced to death by the state of Florida in the new year of 1992. Wuornos murdered seven men whom she believed to have raped and wronged her, taking their lives at point blank range with a small caliber weapon.
Produced by Steve Whale, with Bruce Springsteen's Ross Petersen taking on the mixing and mastering, the 3 minute offering is bold and brilliantly dexterous. The single features musicians from 'The Talks', (bassist Iain Allen and percussionist Richard Titch Lovelock) alongside Distras's husky vocal powerhouse and honest yet fully adroit guitar mastery. Alieen holds a solid air of harmonious punk, militant drum thrash and even a generous stroke of ska rhythm and lays keen weight to the argument that Distras might well be Britain's queen of weaving the poetic into punk and politics.
The single's video accompaniment, shot by GSK Videography, is fittingly coarse and fluid in vintage creativity, showcasing the hull of the song piece in no uncertain terms.
Louise Distras holds staunch in her socio-political bodhi, and as is consistently evident, in her potently triumphant capacity to craft this comprehension into rock and roll exception.
Watch Aileen for yourself here -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi5XTi38zlw
And visit www.louisedistras.co.uk for more information, events, tour dates and merchandise.
Read RattleMag's previous review of Louise Distras live in Leeds here on the site.
www.rattlemag.com/single-post/2016/04/25/REVIEW-Louise-Distras-Leeds-The-Packhorse
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