Jarod

Nick

Tom

Neil

Mark

Shaven Primates are 5-piece dark-wave, art-rock, proto/post-punk band, from Oxford, established in 2017, release their new album “Birds Aren’t Real” on 28th July. Pre-Order @ https://www.shavenprimates.com

Our music is a narrative of human emotion and experience: fear, love and anger resonate through the orchestration, giving our audience a deeply cathartic release. We have rumbling, grinding bass, wailing guitars and synths that flit between retro and modern, thundering, rolling drums and crooning, screaming vocals, guided by the Velvet Underground, Kate Bush, Tool, Prodigy, Yes, Clash, Bowie, Porcupine Tree, and Pink Floyd, and by our own will for making music we love.

After spending 5 years writing the epic life story album that was “Child Of Dirt”, we needed to write something from scratch that was an introspective on the world, this time on “alt thought”, a spin on the mesh of madness spread across the world in war, propaganda, lies, slander, hate, denial, and conspiracy. We wrote 3 songs around this along with 2 more on a perspective on the suicide of someone close, and the experiences of growing up in school with a mind that isn’t compatible. It has a dystopian, urban setting to suit the soundscape and mental imagery from the songs.

BIRDS AREN’T REAL: Out 28/07/2023