Stockholm post-punk band V**gra Boys (**= “ia” because of spam filters) have announced a new album v**gr aboys (** = ia here too) for April 25, via their newly launched label Shrimptech Enterprises. With this news comes the album’s first single and video ‘Man Made of Meat’. LISTEN + WATCH ‘MAN MADE OF MEAT’ HERE + PRE-SAVE THE LP HERE.

Co-produced by frequent collaborator Pelle Gunnerfeldt with the V**gra Boys, v**gr aboys channels the band’s sharp observational humour and unique ability to dismantle everything and nothing at the same time, while juxtaposing real life with high art.

The album’s first single, ‘Man Made of Meat’, draws inspiration from vocalist Sebastian Murphy’s experience cruising through Walmarts while touring the U.S. with Queens of the Stone Age last year. The track is powered by masterful basslines and guitar riffs as Murphy mocks your mom’s OnlyFans and dreams of scoring free women’s sweaters from L.L.Bean. As the chaos escalates, so does Murphy’s sense of complicity, culminating in his bleak yet relatable confession: “I hate almost everything that I see, and I just wanna disappear.”

The single arrives alongside an incredible video that finds Murphy as an accidental artist. Director Daniel Björkman notes: Imagination is gone. Creativity is a concept. Stealing is caring. Theft is priceless. Money a means to an end. Art is a lie. Computers are useless. Music is the ultimate teacher. Taste the enemy of creativity, and a better future. Artificial imagination is here. The world doesn’t make sense, so why should we make images that do? (About TGE, The director / studio) The Great Exhibition is a celebration of the unexpected. Our Ideas are designed to create memories. We playfully discover the unforgettable & remarkable in life.

WATCH: ‘Man Made of Meat’ (Official Video)

In 2022, the band released their third album Cave World, the volcanic satire taking shots at the conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers that surrounded him. That album saw the band’s Late Night TV debut via Jimmy Kimmel Live! along with coverage from the likes of NPR, Pitchfork, Fader, V Magazine, Needle Drop, and so much more. With v**gr boys frontman Murphy has shifted focus inward. “The whole political thing was exhausting,” Murphy admits with a chuckle. “This is like a self-titled album but a bit simple and stupid—because that’s how I am.”

Following the band’s recent trip down under for The Australia Shrimp Grand Prix Tour last November, V**gra Boys have just announced their infinite anxiety tour of 2025. The tour kicks off at Coachella on April 12, followed by a stint across Europe and the UK in April and May. They’ll then return to the U.S. and Canada for their first headline shows in the territory in two years. Tickets for the tour are on-sale now, for all dates and details visit HERE.