East coast ex-pats Ariel Sharratt and Mathias Kom, chiefly known as majority shareholders in the lyrically loquacious The Burning Hell, are currently engaged in exporting a new album under their own subsidiary. Beginning with their title track, “Never Work,” Sharratt and Kom offer their advice to the proletariat and laud the nascent ideologies of their youth with a slacker anthem.
“Greetings fellow workers, we have some big news today,” said the duo in the public announcement of their latest endeavour. “Ariel Sharratt and Mathias Kom Never Work is an album of labour anthems and broken folk songs for our uncertain times, exploring the gig economy, side-hustles, tech feudalism, class war, unionized digital assistants, rebellious self-service checkout machines, fully automated luxury communism, and more.”
“Never Work” captures the spirit of a carefree age that blindly expects to maintain a state of debt-free bliss. It is the impossible dream of a generation still too young to have properly butted up against the wall of ennui.
Presumably, in their habitual fashion, they will have a great deal to say on the topic of economic estrangement with the rest of the album.
Ariel Sharratt and Mathias Kom will be releasing Ariel Sharrat and Mathias Kom Never Work, their second duo album, in April 2020, via BB.Island! They will also be celebrating the month by partaking in an extravagant tour of both the United Kingdom and Germany.
Tour Dates:
04.01.20 – Münster-Altheim (Darmstadt) DE @ ARTHaus
04.02.20 – Schorndorf DE @ Manufaktur
04.03.20 – Weikersheim DE @ Club W71
04.04.20 – Fürth DE@- Badstr. 8
04.05.20 – Viechtach DE @ Altes Spital
04.06.20 – München DE @ Unter Deck
04.08.20 – Vienna AT @ Haus der Musik
04.12.20 – Hamburg DE @ Astra Stube
04.15.20 – Bristol UK @ Cube Cinema
04.17.20 – Cardiff UK @ Canton Labour Club
04.18.20 – Brighton UK @ Railway Club
04.19.20 – Nottingham UK @ The Angel
04.20.20 – Sheffield UK @ Dorothy Pax
04.21.20 – Glasgow UK @ Glad Café
04.23.20 – Botton Village UK @ Botton Village Community Theatre
04.24.20 – Hebden Bridge UK @ Trades Club
04.25.20 – Liverpool UK @ 81 Renshaw
04.26 .20- London UK @ MOTH Club