The Big Pink return after a decade with ‘No Angels’: “It’s true to what we stand for”

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The Big Pink have returned with their first proper single in a decade. Check out ‘No Angels’ below, along with our interview with frontman Robbie Furze.The London-formed indie veterans’ last album was their 2012 sophomore effort ‘Future This‘.

Following the departure of one half of the then duo Milo Cordell in 2013, the band shared a one-off online only track ‘Hightimes’ in 2015 while teasing a third album, but it never arrived.Now Furze – joined by original Big Pink drummer Akiko Matsuura and Nottingham visual artist Charlie Barker on bass – has returned with a taster of what’s to come and dose of their trademark indie-pop-meets-shoegaze sound from their acclaimed 2008 debut ‘A Brief History Of Love‘“’No Angels’ a development in our songwriting and our technical approach, but it does definitely have the same aesthetic as our first record,” Furze told NME. “That’s where I feel most comfortable in representing what The Big Pink stands for.

It all made sense and this was always in my head as the first song to come back with.”The track is driven by a sample of the riff from ‘Light On‘ by the US band Bad Cop.

Furze “fell in love” with the song after hearing it by chance on the radio in LA, where he has been based for much of the last decade as he gave his time to “DJing and different things”.Furze would spend a lot of that time writing demos that might become Big Pink songs, bouncing ideas off the likes of The Kills‘ Jamie Hince, Nick Zinner from Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Jamie T and Joel Amey from Wolf Alice – the latter inspired him to get the band back together.“We did some stuff with Wolf Alice when they came out to LA,” said Furze. “I’m mates with Joel the drummer, and he asked us to go on tour with them.