Kneecap have announced their debut album ‘Fine Art’ and dropped the visuals for their new single, ‘Sick In The Head’.The Northern Irish rap trio’s debut album will drop on June 14 via Heavenly Recordings and was produced by Toddla T.Speaking about the album, Kneecap said: “When working on the album we had periods of great productivity but also periods with a total lack of anything creatively.
Towards the end of recording we hit a proper wall and this is the result. Our mental health was being tested and we said ‘Fuck it, we’re doomed to mental torture, we want to have some money to get through it.
We’ve had enough of it while being broke round Belfast.'”They had entered the studio with Toddla T in summer 2023 but scrapped the music they had prepared to record.
Instead, they built a community pub in West Belfast called The Rutz, which also serves as a fictional setting within the album.“T’s idea was to tell the story of Kneecap,” said the collective’s Mo Chara. “So the record was conceived as the listener stepping into Kneecap’s world.
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