Roll sound! Roll camera! The Amazons are back. After a huge Top 5 record with 2022’s How Will I Know If Heaven Will Find Me?, the band returned recently with the emphatic ‘Living A Lie’. Today, they present 21st Century Fiction: their darkest and most heartfelt record to date - out May 9th, 2025.
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Roll sound! Roll camera! The Amazons are back. After a huge Top 5 record with 2022’s How Will I Know If Heaven Will Find Me?, the band returned recently with the emphatic ‘Living A Lie’. Today, they present 21st Century Fiction: their darkest and most heartfelt record to date - out May 9th, 2025.
Latest offering - the Muse-meets-soul rock-noir ‘Pitch Black’ - is out today and speaks to the pressures and crushing weight on frontman Matthew Thomson to live up to what he has been led to believe is a ‘real man’. Listen here.
“The Dress Rehearsal For Life Is Over, So We’d Better
Make Our Mark Now.”
‘Now’ – it’s a strong word that speaks to the urgency and ethos of the Reading band’s fourth album. 21st Century Fiction is the sound of “a man in his late 20s, struggling with unrealistic ideals of masculinity and a sense of unfulfilled promise”, surrounded by “a world plagued by chaos”. This is the time to take stock and captain your own ship.
The record “comes from the frustration of being in that place where my 20s were ending and being really cognisant of that,” says Thomson, of that spot where the adolescent dream collapses under “self-flagellation; always wondering what’s around the corner, always scolding myself for not matching up to some unattainable ideals of what it means to be a successful band or even just a man.”
