Following their 2023 Fester EP, London's Legss returned bigger, badder, and much more distressed. Earlier this year, they shared "Gloss" which felt like a slo-mo explosion. Today, they've shared the menacing "909" and announced their debut album Unreal that's out September 12.
"909" is a deranged, paranoid slog with splintering guitars. Ned Green takes on an obsessive first-person character who has lost touch with reality. "I leave the house in this fiction; act like my actions are scripted," he says towards the song's end. He then details answering emails and an oppressive gaze. "Everyone is staring at me. I know so because I can feel it. Every haptic ounce of paranoia forcefully rises and threatens an exposé." It's unsettling and jarring, a perfect soundtrack for wasting the weird days of 2025 with 9-to-5 banalities.
"'909' has existed in various forms for a few years now," the band shared. "There’s a 10-minute disco version somewhere. It’s a song that has developed with us and been rewritten at every stage, and now it’s in its final form: a stark, cubist, bass-driven day in the life of a nine-to-fiver addicted to radio podcasts."
The forthcoming album was co-produced with drummer Louis Grace and Balazs Altsach (Ugly, Katy J Pearson, Broadside Hacks). On the album, the band shared, "Unreal feels like the work of a lifetime. We can’t believe we’re still here to see it through, but we are and we couldn’t be prouder. The album is about miscommunication and feelings of unreality/the uncanny in everyday life; the tragic and the comic."
Listen to "909" below.
TRACKLIST:
01 Broadcast
02 Gloss
03 Sleepers, Awake
04 See No Evil
05 Forgot to Answer
06 American Flowers
07 Silo
08 Eversince
09 Nothing Would Make Me Happier
10 When Will I See You Again?
11 Bit Rot
12 909
13 Fugue
Unreal is out 9/12 via The state51 Conspiracy.
