Black Water County have shared their new single, Cruel State Of Mind, the second chapter in a series of singles over the summer and the autumn leading to the release of their third studio album, The Only Life Worth Living, later in the year. Like its predecessor, the album’s title track, Cruel State Of Mind is fast-paced and frenetic, at times thrillingly banjo-led, and always urgent and memorable, but this time with a more tortured subplot. Cruel State Of Mind comes accompanied by a video dashed with horror but, in true Black Water County style, always with an irreverence and dark humour. “Cruel State Of Mind is our own familiar love song for the ages, full to the brim of agonised imagery – ‘like the deaf leading the blind’ and ‘full circle, like Sisyphus’ stone’ – and we wanted to hammer...