Leicester/London band Jools have released their new single, “Limerence,” described as their closest attempt to a love song, ahead of their London show tomorrow night and appearance at The Great Escape on Thursday.

“Limerence” is taken from their debut album, Violent Delights, due out June 6th via Hassle Records. The album presents an anthology of personal narratives exploring themes of grief, rage, desire, and identity. Tracks delve into the toxicity of addiction (“Dunoon”), religious upbringing (“Mother Monica”), overwhelming obsession (“Limerence”), isolating abandonment (“Violent Delights”), empowering identity (“Cardinal”), and stark accounts of sexual violence (“97%”). Each song lays bare lived experiences, reclaimed with raw emotion.

Of the single, the band explain,

It’s about meeting someone and becoming instantly infatuated by them. It tries capture the giddiness you feel when you have a crush and its all you think about, all you dream about, talk about and they have you wondering whether the intense feelings you have are reciprocal or not. It’s a song about desire and how sometimes it can border on obsession and desperation and in the early stages of infatuation, you can become so obsessed you create a fictional version of a person that doesn’t exist anywhere but exactly there, in your head. It’s both euphoric and toxic in equal measure.

Recorded over two week-long sessions in Southampton, Jools’ debut album Violent Delights was produced and mixed by Lewis Johns at The Ranch studio. Sonically, the album transcends its post-punk surface, drawing heavily from metal, rap, post-hardcore, and hip-hop influences. While the lyrical content explores weighty themes of grief, rage, and loss, the band intends the album to be a celebration of confronting these tragedies, a look back with gratitude towards new beginnings.

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