King Parrot to Release New Album ‘A Young Person’s Guide To’ This Year

February 9th, 2025 at 4:38pm
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Now this is the type of parrot I’m down to hear continuously squawking. Australian grindcore band King Parrot has been relatively quiet the last few years, but they’re back baby! Yay! They’re releasing their first full-length album since 2017’s Ugly Produce and 2020’s Holed Up in the Lair EP. They’re calling it A Young Person’s Guide To for whatever reason, and it’s supposed to come out on CD, vinyl, cassette and digitial forms on June 6 via Housecore Records.

Apparently King Parrot approached this record differently according to vocalist Matt Young. He worked closely with guitarist Andrew Livingstone-Squires, saying:

“Throughout the mixing process, we ensured that we got every element where we wanted it. Guitar and bass tones were experimented with until we found exactly what we wanted, the drum sounds were just right, and the performance was executed solidly. Vocally, I rehearsed a lot so that when I recorded it was a breeze.”

Along with announcing the album, King Parrot also dropped the album’s first single, comically titled “Fuck You And The Horse You Rode In On.” The music video for it, which you can watch below, may seem familiar to you if you like traumatizing drug movies. Produced by Dan Farmer, he pulled inspiration for the video from the 1996 film Trainspotting.

Young goes on to say:

“This track is dedicated to anyone that has ever crossed you, tried to belittle you or make you feel less than. The title is pretty self-explanatory. There are multiple people in my life from across the past few years that this song goes out to, and there’s a special spot in the lyrics for each of them. Cowards, abusers, bullies and creeps, ‘Fuck You And the Horse You Rode In On!’
“The video process was challenging,” he continues. “It ain’t easy recreating a scene where a bunch of dudes are diving into a toilet bowl! We had the best time making it, but it certainly took a lot of effort and commitment from everyone involved. Our video producer, Dan Farmer, is a genius at his craft and his ability to turn our visions into a reality is brilliant. Paying homage to ‘Trainspotting’ was so much fun, and we hope we captured a video that people can return to for years to come.”
King Parrot are on tour this month with Pantera and Power Trip.