This Friday (July 17), Southend art-rockers Asylums will release their third full-length album Genetic Cabaret. Recorded in Chicago with Steve Albini, it’s the product of a band not only looking outward at a crumbling society, but also gazing inward at their own wellbeing. After five years of touring, the band took six months off in 2019 to recuperate and work on music that would become Genetic Cabaret. “I wanted to slow the pace down for a while and really enjoy writing the record at home,” frontman Luke Branch tells Kerrang!. “During that time my wife and I decided to try for a baby and as such there was some deep introspection while also looking towards the future,” he continues. “In the news, the debate around Brexit raged on and the countr...
