{"title":"Jools","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"97-fka","title":"97% \/ FKA","description":"\u003cp\u003eLeicester punk sextet Jools release their new single ‘97%’, a provocative track spotlighting the ubiquity of sexual harassment in the lives of women. This comes alongside the band’s announcement of signing to UK indie label Hassle Records (Brutus, The Used, Casey), and the release of an upcoming double A-side 7” single. ‘97%’ draws on vocalist Kate Price’s own personal experiences and those of the women in her life. “The point of the song, however, is not to explore my experience as an isolated incident, but instead to force people to confront such commonplace experiences in a manner in which they can’t look away,” Price says. “Everybody knows a woman that has been harassed or assaulted, but nobody seems to know an abuser. That simply doesn’t add up. I want that song to feel uncomfortable because I want everyone who hears it to realise that just because they are not an abuser, that doesn’t mean they aren’t responsible for changing the culture and experiences of every woman. It’s a cry for justice in the world.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo experience Jools in their most chaotic and unpredictable full flight is, the band were once told, to not know whether you are about to be kicked in the face or kissed on the cheek. Even that, however, feels like an understatement.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt any moment the Jools experience, on stage and on record, can turn on a sixpence from that of unbridled rage at the world to a celebration of the beauty that can still be found hidden in its murky corners. The punk rock of Jools is at once visceral and violent, cathartic and confrontational, and at the next exultant and exhilarating. Jools is duality by design, where contradiction is empowerment harnessed as a force for progress, sonically and societally.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA collective of musicians – Mitch Gordon and Kate Price on vocals, Chris Johnston and Callum Connachie on guitar, Joe Dodd on bass, and Chelsea Wrones on drums – spread between London and Leicester, Jools found each other as much by accident as design in the earliest days of 2023. Together, they serve as a creative confluence for inspirations that move from the punk and post-punk of The Smiths, Fontaines DC, Iggy Pop, Amyl and The Sniffers and PJ Harvey, through the shoegaze of My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive, and into territories marked metal, rap and pop.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hassle","offers":[{"title":"Red 7\" | Signed Copy","offer_id":50445980664139,"sku":"2193912","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Red 7\"","offer_id":50445980926283,"sku":"2200714","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/7e04288f-fb54-d9b5-c78e-e4a6a922ecc5_d16d30fc_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727050944"},{"product_id":"violent-delights","title":"Violent Delights","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eViolent Delights\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Loss is a central theme of the album,” explains vocalist \u003cstrong\u003eKate Price\u003c\/strong\u003e. “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. \u003cem\u003eViolent Delights\u003c\/em\u003e is about looking back with gratitude, and even fondness, the closing of one chapter and beginning of another.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJools\u003c\/strong\u003e - comprised of \u003cstrong\u003eKate Price\u003c\/strong\u003e, 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 has been consistently championed by BBC Radio One, including two ‘Tune of the Week’ placements on Daniel P Carter’s esteemed Rock Show.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eViolent Delights\u003c\/em\u003e 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, \u003cstrong\u003eJools\u003c\/strong\u003e may identify as a punk band – in its truest sense that punk is a mentality, rather than a sound – but \u003cem\u003eViolent Delights\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u0026amp; 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hassle","offers":[{"title":"LP - Turquoise","offer_id":51476086817099,"sku":"R9525-9020","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":51476086849867,"sku":"R9525-6062","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/uHGOSczI_a2c02cad-6e09-4fd1-9531-4923156b1658.jpg?v=1752282772"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/jools.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}