If 2011 was lacking anything, it was new music from British gloom rockers Crippled Black Phoenix. Their last album, 2010’s I, Vigilante (half-reviewed here), was as stunning as its cover art, and as the band has posted the track “A Letter Concerning Dogheads” from the forthcoming (Mankind) The Crafty Ape, it sounds like there are good things yet to come. If you’re in Europe, they’ll also be touring in March. More info on that is here.

Until then, here’s the announcement of the album, which was sneakily put up last week, and the Soundcloud stream of “A Letter Concerning Dogheads.”

(Mankind) The Crafty Ape, the fifth Crippled Black Phoenix album is upon us and it marks a new chapter in the history of the band. The thematic focus for this album is firmly planted in the corruption of mankind and injustice, but also ultimately in the hope that all is not lost, and that there’s a common thread connecting people of like-minds wherever you may travel.

The music and themes have been created as to represent the world inside and outside of the mind, with no compromise. On (Mankind) The Crafty Ape, the band showcases a new level of focus, and that’s not to say there was a lack of focus on previous efforts, it simply says that the methods and attitude in making the new album are another move toward finding the total uncompromised potential within the music.

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Tags: Cool Green Recordings, Crippled Black Phoenix, UK

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