Kula Shaker, previews from the album “Wormslayer”
Kula Shaker continue their journey towards the release of the new album “Worrmslayer”, scheduled for January 30th.
After anticipating it with the singles “Good money”
“Charge of the Light Brigade”
and “Broke as Folk”
they then made “Be merciful” available. The song is a “deep cut” of the band’s repertoire, born almost twenty years ago as an acoustic demo, produced by electronic pioneer Mark Pritchard (Jedi Knights, Harmonic 33, and the collaborative album with Thom Yorke “Tall Tales”). A vinyl bootleg of this demo later became a 7″ single highly sought after by collectors.
As Crispian Mills explains:
There had been a limited run on vinyl, but I wasn’t even sure it actually existed until, years later, some fans asked me to sign their copies. The song always had a special quality and Kula Shaker would occasionally play it live – we found it worked really well alongside the other songs on “Wormslayer”. We kept many of Mark’s original ideas: his haunting mellotrons and analog ambient spaces; then we enhanced it with the energy of a live performance.
The last taste before the release of “Wormslayer” is “Lucky Number”, which will be the opening track of the album.
The accompanying video for “Lucky Number” features live footage from last year’s Inner Circle Shows, which saw the band perform some of the most intimate concerts of their career. Among these, a date at the famous Cavern Club in Liverpool
A taste of their live power can be seen in their recent performance for KEXP which includes the classics “Tattva” and “Govinda”, the single “Good Money” and the previously unreleased “Day For Night”.
2026 will see Kula Shaker embark on a full UK headline tour, culminating in London at Islington Assembly Hall. A subsequent European tour has also just been announced, for which no Italian dates are currently scheduled. All shows will be illuminated by the psychedelic vision of The Mad Alchemist Liquid Light Show.
Here is the tracklist of “Wormslayer”:
1. Lucky Number
2.Good Money
3. Charge of the Light Brigade
4. Little Darling
5. Broke As Folk
6. Be Merciful
7. Shaunie
8. The Winged Boy
9. Day For Night
10. Wormslayer
11. Dust Beneath Our Feet
