Uppers (album)
Uppers is the debut studio album by the English post-punk band TV Priest, released on 5 February 2021 by Sub Pop. Background and recording TV Priest initially self-released their standalone singles "House of York" in April 2020, followed by "Runner Up" in May 2020. Uppers was initially set for release on independent label Hand in Hive in November 2020 before begin pushed back to 5 February 2021 after the band signed to Sub Pop. The album was produced by Nic Bueth and recorded in East London. Release On 17 August 2020, TV Priest announced the release of their debut album, along with the single "This Island". Lead singer Charlie Drinkwater said the single is "about incoherence and inarticulate responses, both personal and political, in a time and place you don’t fully understand anymore. We wrote this to an increasingly nationalistic and isolationist drumbeat playing out at home and abroad, and frankly we are scared and appalled". The second single "Sllideshow" was released on 23 September 2020. On 28 October 2020, TV Priest announced they had signed to Sub Pop, and released their third single "Decoration". The fourth single "Press Gang" was released on 5 January 2021, and is inspired by