Du Blonde Announces New Album ‘Sniff More Gritty’ With Raucous New Single ‘TV Star’

Du Blonde have announced the release of their fourth album ‘Sniff More Gritty’, along with new single ‘TV Star’ and an upcoming UK tour. Check out the album’s dates and tracklist below.

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The artist’s fourth LP, ‘Sniff More Gritty’, sees Du Blonde take on the role of producer and engineer while enlisting an eclectic list of collaborators, with guest appearances from Skunk Anansie’s Skin, Against Me!’s Laura Jane Grace, Maximo Park’s Paul Smith and The Futureheads’ Ross Millard.

The disc will be released on November 1st via Daemon TV. You can pre-order it here.

Alongside the announcement, Du Blonde has released a new single “TV Star” — a grunge-pop exploration of the toxicity of succumbing to fame and how people can change with mass attention.Congratulations, you are a TV star“, they begin in a drawling, monotonous voice over the strumming of an acoustic guitar.”I got success, I bought a new car / Was it worth it, you know who you are?“

“It’s the story of who someone was before and after fame, and the sadness of losing the good person they were,” Du Blonde says of the raucous track.

The accompanying music video stars actor and musician Pete Chekvala, and alternates between new footage and 10-year-old clips of Du Blonde and Chekvala to “represent the purity and innocence of early years,” the artist explains.

“Even though I star in the early videos, I can see now how much softer I was and how much I still believed in the magic of people,” they say of the video that took a decade to make. “I feel like a lot of the new album is bouncing between characters and states of mind, and being able to play with the more deranged sides of myself, both lyrically and aesthetically, has been really liberating and fun.”

‘Sniff More Gritty’ will see Du Blonde take on former flames and record industry executives across a soundscape of glam-rock, punk and pop.

Check out the tracklist and album cover below.

The tracklist for “Sniff More Gritty” is:

1 – “Perfect”
2 – “Dollar Coffee”
3 – “Solitary Individual” (with Laura Jane Grace of Against Me!)
4 – “TV Star”
5 – “In a million”
6 – “Intensive care unit”
7 – “Blame”
8 – “Lucky”
9 – “Yesterday”
10 – “Next Big Thing” (featuring Skunk Anansie’s Skin)
11 – “Radio Jesus” (featuring Paul Smith of Maximo Park and Ross Millard of The Futureheads)
12 – “Metal Detector”

Alongside the album announcement, they have also shared details of a UK tour that will kick off early next year. Du Blonde will kick off shows on 22nd January in Edinburgh, before heading to Glasgow (23rd), Newcastle (24th), Manchester (26th) and Leeds (28th). They will then play in Bristol, Birmingham and Brighton in early February, before wrapping up in London on 6th February.

Tickets go on sale tomorrow (August 23) at 10:00 BST. You can find all the tour dates below and buy your tickets here.

Du Blonde tour dates are:

JANUARY 2025
22 – Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh
23 – Diffusion, Glasgow
24 – The Cluny, Newcastle
26 – YES (basement), Manchester
28 – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
29 – The Yellow Arch, Sheffield
31 – Bodega, Nottingham

FEBRUARY
1 – The Flapper, Birmingham
2 – Thékla, Bristol
4 – DUST, Brighton
6 – Moth Club, London

Du Blonde’s latest full-length album was 2021’s “Homecoming.” In a four-star review, NME said: “It’s a record imbued with a sardonic sense of humor… and one whose writer seems to revel in the joyful anarchy of not quite fitting in. “I didn’t think I’d be 30 and broke and happy.” They smile on the unbridled “Ducky Daffy,” summing up this explosively optimistic album in a single line.

Shortly after the album’s release, they opened up about their diagnosis with Tourette syndrome.

“Only my friends and family knew about this part of my life, because after much research, the most upsetting and scary thing for me was the possibility that people would say it was fake,” they wrote.

“But I realize that waiting for a diagnosis fuels the idea that everyone has to ‘prove’ that they have a disability. So I almost wish I had said it sooner. If my job didn’t involve mass interviews and interactions with strangers, I wouldn’t feel the need to talk about it on social media, but it allows me to take control of my future. If I tried to hide it, I wouldn’t be able to go on tour.”