Uppers - 2021 European Sub Pop label Limited Loser Edition Grey Marbled Vinyl 12-track LP

It’s tempting to think that you have all the answers, screaming your gospel every day with certainty and anger. Life isn’t quite like that though, and the debut album from London four-piece TV Priest instead embraces the beautiful and terrifying unknowns that exist personally, politically and culturally.

Posing as many questions as it answers, Uppers is a thunderous opening statement that continues the UK’s recent resurgence of grubby, furious post-punk music. It says something very different though – something completely its own.

Four childhood friends who made music together as teenagers before drifting apart and then, somewhat inevitably, back together late in 2019, TV Priest was born out of a need to create together once again, and brings with it a wealth of experience and exhaustion picked up in the band’s years of pursuing “real life” and “real jobs,” something those teenagers never had.

In November 2019, the band – vocalist Charlie Drinkwater, guitarist Alex Sprogis, bass and keys player Nic Bueth, and drummer Ed Kelland – played their first show, to a smattering of friends in what they describe as an “industrial freezer” in the warehouse district of Hackney Wick. “It was like the pub in Peep Show with a washing machine just in the middle…” Charlie laughs, remembering how they dodged Star Wars memorabilia and deep fat fryers while making their first statement as a band.

This is the limited "Loser Edition" - the first pressing pressed onto coloured vinyl - picture cover stickered on outer shrink wrapping 

What people have been saying about TV Priest:

“Fuzzed-out post punk from London four-piece on debut LP… harsh, brittle eruptions offering up a variety of teeth-rattling noises.” [Uppers] Uncut

“The post-punk band have caught attention with a string of superb singles, exemplifying their scorching post-punk sound.” - CLASH

Tracklisting:

Side 1:
1    The Big Curve    4:56
2    Press Gang    2:59
3    Leg Room    3:32
4    Journal of a Plague Year    3:19
5    History Week    2:02
6    Decoration    4:31

Side 2: skip:
1    Slideshow    3:07
2    Fathers and Sons    3:35
3    the ref    0:50
4    Powers of Ten    4:09
5    This Island    3:44
6    Saintless    7:06