Brighton’s PROJECTOR Announce New Album 'Contempt' Released 3rd October 2025 via Alcopop! Records
Released 3rd October 2025 via Alcopop! Records
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Stream Intense New Single ‘It Surely Has Been Hell’ - out now
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Announce August 2025 Festival Appearances
+ October 2025 UK/EU Tour Dates On Sale Now
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Brighton trio PROJECTOR today announce that their second album, Contempt, will be released on 3rd October 2025 via new label home Alcopop! Records.
Recorded and produced by Ben Hampson (DITZ, Lambrini Girls) and mastered by Katie Tavini, the new album follows on from the critical success of their 2024 debut NOW WHEN WE TALK IT’S VIOLENCE (Venn Records).
To celebrate the news, the band are sharing lead single ‘It Surely Has Been Hell’, which is released 15th July 2025 on all good digital service providers.
Kicking off their live year supporting Canadian rock heavyweights Cleopatrick back in March, the band are today also pleased to announce a short run of August 2025 festival appearances, with a run of previously-revealed UK/France October 2025 headline tour dates also on sale now (see below for listings).
Commenting on the new single, guitarist Edward said: “O, it is a very hateful song. It makes me slightly uncomfortable to listen to. It’s quite lonely as well, I think. It’s a song about feeling sad and feeling a bit alienated, not knowing my place in the world, while at the same time saying ‘everything’s shit, I don’t want to be involved anyway.’ The former possibly informing the latter.”
“As usual for us, the everyday ennui is couched in apocalyptic language, because we’re grandiose twats. The lyrics draw on the Dadaist idea that if the world is incomprehensible, then the only way to respond is with the absurd. Hence, lines about laying my eggs in the sand, football references (again) and quoting Yeats.”
The track follows on from the video for their previous single ‘Collision’, which was released earlier this year to support from The Line of Best Fit, and the genre-warping trio’s March 2025 single ‘The Sham! The Sham! The Sham!’—a jagged, frenzied post-punk eruption that reaffirmed PROJECTOR’s reputation as one of the UK’s most sonically adventurous bands.
Typical of the three piece’s approach to genre-splicing and sonic acrobatics, ‘Collision’ was a snappy 2 minutes and 30 seconds that begins as a convulsive slice of staccato art-rock à la Courting and Cheekface, before opening up into a soaring alt-rock chorus replete with playfully intertwining dual vocals from guitarist Edward and bassist Lucy.
The forthcoming new album is the sound of PROJECTOR accepting their status as provocateurs, and revelling in it. “In some ways, Contempt is us consolidating and accepting what we are: aggressive and stupid and weird, as well as carefully devoted to melody and harmony,” says bassist and vocalist Lucy. “We’ve always been aware of the dissonance in us and our music. Probably like most cynical musicians we love beautiful things but can’t really enjoy them without tearing them apart.”
Further new music and live dates will be revealed over the coming months.
Live Dates:
02/08 - Multitude Fest - Milton Keynes (UK)
16/08 - Dedfest - Lewes (UK)
21/08 - Bordeaux (w/ DITZ) (FR)
29/08 - Mirabilis Festival (FR)
30/08 - Guinguette Sonore Festival (FR)
29-30/05 – Supersonic Block Party // Paris (FR)
08/10 – Reims // La Cartonnerie (FR)
09/10 – Rennes // L’Antipode (FR)
10/10 – Paris // Point Éphémère (FR)
11/10 – Lille // L’Aeronef (FR)
13/10 – Birmingham // Sunflower Lounge (UK)
14/10 – Sheffield // Hallamshire Hotel (UK)
15/10 – Manchester // 33 Oldham St (UK)
16/10 – Bristol // The Louisiana (UK)
17/10 – London // The Lower Third (UK)
Tickets: https://linktr.ee/ProjectorOfficial
Contempt album tracklist:
1. The Sham! The Sham! The Sham!
2. Collision
3. It Surely Has Been Hell
4. Migraine
5. Phantom Limb
6. O Well
7. S.O.M.O.D.
8. Hope Springs Eternal
9. It's True
10. Communion
11. Happy to be Here
12. Who Loves You, Baby?
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Since they formed in 2018, Brighton’s PROJECTOR have stubbornly gone their own way. Bringing angular industrial drum machines to hook laden alt-rock, and lush melody to frenzied post-punk, the band have never hesitated to prioritise sonic breadth and an experimental attitude to pop. It’s this confidence in craft that have lead them to tour Europe with rock giants Cleopatrick while simultaneously haunting the airplay of BBC Radio 6’s left field Steve Lamacq and Amy Lamé shows.
PROJECTOR deal in nuance of expression and the true insanity and grit of modern life, psyche and politics (although they don’t like to talk about lyrics.) With the same attitude to recording, PROJECTOR have kept a firm grip over their creative output by producing and recording themselves for the last few years.
PROJECTOR’s debut album ‘NOW WHEN WE TALK IT’S VIOLENCE’ moves effortlessly between artful derangement, aggression and the pop hooks that have regularly seen the band gatecrash the mainstream rock scene. At times it’s drenched in the dark, industrial brutalism of Joy Division, at others it’s a spectacular of hyperactive, Squid-flavoured rant-pop. The album features climaxes that stagger into acid-soaked country, warped with drum machines and lush harmonies, before leaping into blisteringly paranoid Incesticide-era grunge, topped with melting Lana Del Rey-flavour choruses.
Above all, the band’s tightly wound intensity drives the album with the strange fervour of early Pixies that reflects the energy of their live show. PROJECTOR celebrated their debut with a UK and EU tour, starting February 2024.
Their March 2025 single finds the band at their most unhinged yet. A riotous blend of razor-sharp guitars, dissonant harmonies, and a propulsive rhythm section, ‘The Sham! The Sham! The Sham!’ channels the frenzied energy of their live performances into a controlled explosion of raw emotion and chaos.
Guitarist and singer Edward explains: “The Sham The Sham The Sham is a triptych depicting three characters, each of whom hold themselves in the highest regard and each of whom share a common contempt for their fellow man. This distaste is reflected in the music, a crass atonal amalgam of disparate genres and unpleasant clanking. Described by returning producer Ben Hampson as sounding like “a fight in a big metal bin”. The contempt is even extended to the listener. The lyrics written solely for the enjoyment of the writer, replete with references to Greek mythology, French cinema and other more bodily subjects.”
Listen to the previous single ‘The Sham! The Sham! The Sham!’ here:
https://lnk.to/TheShamTheShamTheSham
