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Violent Delights is an anthology of stories that
meanders through themes of grief, rage, desire and
identity.
There are stories of the toxicity of addiction, and
growing up around religion; stories of
overwhelming obsession, isolating abandonment,
and empowering anthems of identity, and stark
laments about sexual violence. They are each lived
experiences, laid bare, reclaimed with every
syllable whether dripping in spite or swagger, anger
or anxiety.Loss is a central theme of the album,’ explains
vocalist Kate Price. ‘For us, we have our own
specific version of what that is in these songs, but
for anyone listening, it could be the loss of
something else - a loved one, a relationship. But
we're never mourning loss. We're celebrating it.
Loss is almost universally looked at as a negative,
but we're finding the positives in those moments.
We had to go through hell to get to heaven. Violent
Delights is about looking back with gratitude, and
even fondness, the closing of one chapter and
beginning of another.’Jools - comprised of Kate Price, Mitch Gordon,
Chris Johnston and Callum Connachie, Joe Dodd,
and Chelsea Wrones - has been a name on the lips
of clued-up fans and tastemakers since its
collective of musicians found each other in the
earliest days of 2023.Quickly gaining a reputation for their cathartic,
unpredictable and specular live performances, the
band have been consistently championed by BBC
Radio One, including two `Tune of the Week'
placements on Daniel P Carter's esteemed Rock
Show. Violent Delights was recorded across two week-long stints at Southampton's The Ranch
studio in August and December of 2024, with Lewis
Johns helming production and mixing duties.When pressed, Jools may identify as a punk band -
in its truest sense that punk is a mentality, rather
than a sound - but Violent Delights equally lends
from the worlds of metal, rap, post-hardcore and
hip-hop as much as it does the post-punk of its
surface layer.Gordon and Price are as likely to point to Turnstile,
Mannequin Pussy and Amyl & The Sniffers as
influences on the record as they are to Little Simz
and The Streets' Mike Skinner. ‘We don't
necessarily look at music in sounds or structures,’
nods Gordon. ‘Instead we look for attitudes.’
