Slate announce second EP The Grandfather Clock, share title track

Cardiff post-punk quartet Slate have announced their second EP, The Grandfather Clock, out 22 January 2027 via Brace Yourself Records. The title track is out now with a video directed by Aled Victor and Sam Stevens, shot at Bryn Eglur in the village of Trellech.

It follows the band's 2024 debut EP Deathless. The four tracks are "Lantern", "Tapestri", "The Pond" and "The Grandfather Clock", recorded live at RAK Studios and Perryvale Studios in London with producer Richie Kennedy. Founding guitarist Elis Penri plays guitar across it, and the cover uses an old photo of Lauren Edwards' grandfather and great-aunt outside their house in the Rhondda valley.

The band say the EP leans into "aspects of our Welshness such as choral singing, poetry and folk-like melodies", and that it moves through the house where you "encounter four objects that propel nostalgia". A 12-inch vinyl pressing arrives via Dinked's Early Doors series.