Bananas

Bananas is the tenth studio album by Scottish singer-songwriter Malcolm Middleton, and the seventh under his own name. It was released on 28 September 2018 on Triassic Tusk Records. Cover and title In an interview with For The Rabbits, an alternative music website, Middleton suggests that the title is "a stupid fucking name for an album" and dismisses any suggestion that it may be a nod to the The Velvet Underground's debut album: "[T]he last few years I've started sketching, I mean I can't draw to save my life, but I started doing it and I was really bad but I found a lot of pleasure in doing it and the first thing I drew was these bananas". Background and Recording Bananas represented a return to a more simple recording, and marked a clear departure from the sound of Middleton's previous record, Summer of '13. Speaking of the recording of the songs, Middleton said that "most of the songs on this record were written in two different days … feeling a certain way, feeling like shit and just mental things, that’s when words tend to come out for me. I don’t normally sit and write when I’m really happy”.