Jake Bugg announces ‘A Modern Day Distraction’ album with new single ‘Zombieland’

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Jake Bugg has revealed details of a new album titled ‘A Modern Day Distraction’. Check out the politically-motivated new single below.Announced today (May 17), the new project will mark the sixth studio album from the indie singer, and arrives fresh off the back of Bugg completing a tour with Britpop legends Liam Gallagher and John Squire.It is set to arrive on September 20 via RCA, and will be the singer, songwriter and guitarist’s first full-length LP since he shared ‘Saturday Night Sunday Morning’ back in 2021.To celebrate the announcement, Bugg has today shared a new teaser of the album – dropping the intense new single ‘Zombieland’.The track comes as a gritty, guitar-driven anthem, and sees Bugg pay homage to rock icons like Nirvana in his sound, while the lyrics highlight the struggle of those feeling broken by the inescapable daily grind. “She’s waking up still half-asleep, outside the street lights flicker/ He likes to smoke before he leaves another day without a dream/ He works his fingers to the bone just to feed the metre,” he sings in the bone-crunching intro, before erupting into the anthemic chorus. “Around and round it goes again/ Every day just looks the same.”Discussing the motivation behind ‘Zombieland’, he said: “It’s fucking brutal. [People live in] a constant cycle of working to live.

They’re not paid what they’re worth.“People have the same routine every day, they’re at work more than they see their kids, then the government puts the retirement age up.