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SUMMARY:TV Priest
LOCATION:Oporto
DESCRIPTION:TV Priest are back\, but the sermon’s not the same. “This i
 s a song about leisure\, our fears and pleasures\,” vocalist Charlie Dri
 nkwater announces as the group’s exhilarating new album growls into gear
  – words that at Cirst may seem to signal more of what came before. Afte
 r all\, the Sub Pop innovators have become one of Britain’s most vital n
 ew bands on the back of furious songs about a world undone by dark desires
 \, both primal and political. But that sound Drinkwater described\, tappin
 g into our leisures – “automatic dreams on 65” screens\,” the lyri
 c continues – couldn’t feel more different this time around. “It’s
  a pretty big evolution\,” beams the frontman\, reClecting on how Cartoo
 ns sees TV Priest abandon their format post-punk pulpit. The broadcast now
  is a little more tender. A little more melody mixed in the Molotov cockta
 il. It’s the sound of a band thunderously reborn. But arriving at it alm
 ost broke them apart. “We had to have a self-reckoning about why we were
  doing this\,” says Drinkwater\, who found himself in a place of existen
 tial crisis after the success of their Cirst two albums. 2021’s Uppers a
 nd 2022’s My Other People had catapulted the duo – Drinkwater and life
 -long collaborator Alex Sprogis\, who he met aged two – onto stages and 
 playlists worldwide. Signed to one of the most storied labels in indie mus
 ic history\, the pair were championed by outlets like Pitchfork and “pla
 ying all over the world\, getting to do amazing things. But it was weirdly
  discombobulating. To go from being someone that's always played in bands 
 that no one's ever really given a shit about to all this\,” the vocalist
  recalls\, “was disorientating.” To quote Cartoons’ A Song From The 
 Riverbed: “I lost myself.” Some dark days grappling with purpose\, the
 ir position in the world – and even body image – followed. Did TV Prie
 st become ensnared in the exact thing their songs sought to skewer? On cor
 uscating tracks like early single ‘Runner Up’\, the band – then a fo
 ur-piece – had Cired shots at late capitalism. But the more the band gre
 w\, the more they felt a self-applied pressure to play more. Record more. 
 Release more. Be more productive. “I really felt that upward bell curve 
 of needing to ascend\, ascend\, ascend\,” says Drinkwater. It left his p
 syche in a rough state. “My mental health wasn’t great. A lot of thing
 s had gotten mixed up in the whirlpool.” Eventually\, a conversation wit
 h his wife\, with whom he’s now a parent\, helped turn the tide. “Ther
 e was a point where she said to me\, is this worth it? Because it doesn't 
 seem to be making you happy.” The vocalist realised then that happiness 
 and joy – softer emotions he carries and prizes as a person – weren’
 t well represented in TV Priest’s music. Each night on stage\, he felt e
 xpected to conjure a certain anger\, “like a boxing match where come out
  punching. It had to have this certain kind of energy – a certain kind o
 f aggression.” Just one problem – this wasn’t him. It wasn’t wholl
 y either of them\, truth be told. So he and Sprogis went home to their fam
 ilies and day jobs\, as a designer and architect respectively. As they did
 \, they began carefully cooking up a new sonic identity for TV Priest. One
  forged from “a place of deeper vulnerability and honesty\,” he says. 
 The currency of the world in 2026 is anger. It’s what keeps us glued to 
 our phones. It has Cilled our streets. What would it look like to break fr
 om that\, musically\, the pair began to wonder? “If I’m only reaching 
 people through aggression\, what does that do? What does that feed back in
 to the world?” asks the frontman. “If you keep giving out breeze block
 s as birthday presents\, you can expect them in return.” The result was 
 a record with surprising shades of REM\, Radiohead\, The National and Foal
 s – the Cire and philosophising of their previous work still present\, b
 ut now accompanied by a bigger sprawl of gentler instruments. Piano. Fiddl
 e. Bird song recordings ruptured and pieced back together again\, “explo
 ring the intersection between digitalism and nature.” Everything was on 
 the table as the duo rewired their sound. “This was the Cirst record tha
 t we wrote starting with an acoustic guitar\,” says Drinkwater. “Every
 thing else has always begun in a loud room.” They still reach violent vo
 lumes as and when they elect to\, on tracks like lead single ‘The Mud Ne
 ver Dies’\, which the group call “the most abrasive thing we’ve made
 .” Channelling drum and bass\, it’s a song that “never settles into 
 one shape\,” says Drinkwater. But elsewhere on Cartoons \, there are sen
 sitive surprises. Its title track chronicles watching animations with his 
 child\, wondering what sort of world they’re destined to inherit. ‘I A
 m’ strips everything down to an acoustic and Drinkwater’s naked vocal
 \, while ‘Epping’ is an electronic reverie that blooms and blooms with
  beauty. “There's a lot of lyrics about entropy\,” says the frontman\,
  “this idea that we’re kind of living in a world of perpetual motion a
 nd perpetual chaos\, and the only way to get through it is through connect
 ion and love.” The world is still a stiCling place on Cartoons \, overru
 n by nefarious corporate forces. The subjects of their ire haven’t disap
 peared. But a new way of moving through their feelings\, and maybe yours a
 s well\, presents itself on these ten tracks. “There's a deeper sense of
  worry rather than righteous indignation. We're still the same people as w
 e were Cive years ago – we still hold the same political values and the 
 same moral compasses. But I think there’s a different way of dealing wit
 h it.” The result of that new approach? One of 2026’s most ambitious\,
  invigorating listens\, lit up by soaring vocal melodies and timbre twists
  at every turn. TV Priest are back\, but the sermon’s not the same. On C
 artoons \, it’s better\, it’s brighter\, it’s bolder. The congregati
 on can now return to their pews. A brand-new heart-rending homily has begu
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