Flats’ new Black Sabbath influences are apparent immediately as they kick off their set with a bleak, dirgeful track, rife with an oppressive, leaden sound. The track is slow – a clear break from Flats’ fast, anarcho-punk work. The group still sounds aggressive and heavy, but heavy in a different, almost literal way. This is not necessarily what I was expecting from the group, whose forth-coming single and back-catalogue is fast, frenzied, and rarely exceeds two minutes in length. However, this slower work does add a new depth of pace and aggression to their live set, albeit...
Slap-bang in the middle of their UK tour, More Than The Music caught up with Dan and Samir from Flats to discuss influences, anti-politics, and being played on Radio 1.
MTTM: You guys are in the midst of your first UK tour. How is it all going? Have you been well received thus far?
FLATS: It’s actually our second UK tour; our first one was in October for the NME Radar tour, which we did with Chapel Club and The Joy Formidable. Throughout that tour we got on really well with Chapel Club especially – unexpected perhaps, but we were almost singing along to their music by the end of the...
