Trip hop vets Sneaker Pimps will release Squaring the Circle, their first album 20 years, next week (pre-order on exclusive vinyl) and they've just shared one final early taste before the whole thing drops. "Alibis" is fragile funk, a sultry downtempo bubblebath that has heavy thoughts on its mind. "You’re like cellophane," Chris Comer sings in a delicate falsetto, "You think that you got it wrapped up with your brutal suffocating ways."
Ian Pickering, Sneaker Pimps' longtime collaborator who co-wrote the lyrics, calls it, “A lullaby for the 21st century’s descent into ever greater suffering, pitching the rise of populism against the complicity of distraction; anaesthetised mix of fear and pleasure in the face of total powerlessness, an expression of remorse in succumbing to the shallow victory of self-absorbed rhetoric, conscience-washing commercials, tailored soundbites and empowering t-shirt slogans.” You can listen to "Alibis" and three remixes of the track below.