Benjamin Langford-Biss (ex-As It Is) is set to release his first full band single, The Ringleader

Just three months after the release of his sophomore album, Shouting With Nothing To Say, Benjamin Langford-Biss (ex-As It Is) is set to release his first full band single, The Ringleader, under his project Bleak Soul before a busy summer of shows and festivals including 2000 Trees Festival, Burn It Down and more. Alongside this single Bleak Soul have also announced they will be playing some UK shows with El Moono around Burn It Down Festival. Since the release of Shouting With Nothing To Say, Bleak Soul has been performing the album around the UK alongside acts like The Dear Hunter, James and the Cold Gun, itoldyouiwouldeatyou as well as a number of headline shows, all with his live band, completing the Bleak Soul family.

Discussing the new single, Langford-Biss said, "The Ringleader is a song about feeling hopeless in this current political climate. After making a super quiet introspective record I naturally turned my gaze outward, and in typical me fashion wanted to write louder songs again. Since Bleak Soul has become a band and more than just me, and that we’re playing live a lot more, I definitely started writing more with the live show in mind. I think anyone that feels disillusioned with the world will find comfort in this song. It’s also a song I feel like anyone who misses what I was writing and doing during The Great Depression era of As It Is will hopefully enjoy. It’s been a while since I’ve written darker, heavier songs like this but anger became the primary inspiration as opposed to sadness and the next chapter for Bleak Soul is definitely going to surprise people."

TOUR DATES

• 1st July - London, Old Blue Last (free entry)*
• 2nd July - Sheffield, Record Junkee*
• 3rd July - Stoke, Underground*
• 4th July - Manchester, Night & Day Cafe*
• 5th July - Bristol, The Exchange Basement*
• 7th July - 2000 Trees Festival
• 14th August - London, Fest Shalom
• 1st September - Southampton, Suburbia
• 2nd September - Cardiff, The Moon
• 3rd September - Burn It Down Festival
• 4th September - Bristol, Crofters Rights

*w/ Gnarlah

w/ El Moono

WATCH THE RINGLEADER MUSIC VIDEO