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

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