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Your favourite retro rockers are back, and they’ve dug up one of their older tunes to reignite the FUR-mobile. No strangers to taking sounds from the past and giving them an up-to-date lick of paint, FUR have done this quite literally with one of their own arrangements. Combining the classically nostalgic sounds found in 60s-inflected pop with their iconically hazy harmonies and infectious jangly hooks, it’s almost like the band have arrived at the core essence of their sound on ‘Grow Up’.

Frontman and guitarist Murray continues: “It’s actually quite an old song for us, we’ve come a long way in terms of songwriting but sometimes there’s a few songs that were maybe ahead of their time, it took a few arrangements over the last two or three years to get to this version of ‘Grow Up’ and it feels good to finally have it there for people to hear. The song is about not wanting to grow up and the worries of not enjoying later adult life, it seems fitting to have sat on it for a few years until we have matured.” Tune in below:

‘Grow Up’ is the first taste of their new material that the band recorded pre-lockdown in the studio with James Skelly of The Coral, who has previously worked on both of Blossoms’ number one albums. Releasing a gorgeous video alongside the single which they’ve pieced together in lockdown, FUR sentimentally map out their trajectory by contrasting videos from the band as kids with footage of them touring the world and making their dreams happen. “It kind of highlights how your uncertainties or worries you maybe had as a kid can then be completely outweighed by your life taking you to places you’d never expect.”

You can catch FUR live at the following dates next year:

MARCH
04 - Birmingham, The Castle & Falcon
05 - Newcastle, The Cluny 2
06 - Sheffield, The Picturehouse Social
07 - Manchester, The Deaf Institute
08 - Liverpool, Phase One
10 - Southampton, Heartbreakers
11 - Brighton, Prince Albert
12 - London, Oslo
13 - Margate, Elsewhere

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