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6 November 2026 – TV Priest Release Cartoons and Push British Post-Punk Into a More Experimental Electronic Direction
By Editorial Team - November 6, 2026
Summary
British post-punk outfit TV Priest unveil third album Cartoons on AMK/Kartel, combining spoken-word critique, driving bass, and noisy electronic experiments.
Key Facts
- TV Priest release third album Cartoons on AMK and Kartel Music Group.
- Blends post-punk instrumentation with electronic samples, field recordings, and dance-influenced bass.
- Ten tracks dissect digital saturation and screen fatigue, led by single 'The Mud Never Dries'.
- Entities: TV Priest, AMK, Kartel Music Group
- Tags: tv-priest, cartoons, amk, kartel-music-group, post-punk, experimental-rock, electronic-rock, british-rock
British alternative-rock group TV Priest have released their third studio album Cartoons through AMK and Kartel Music Group, introducing a more expansive musical direction than the angular post-punk arrangements associated with their earlier recordings. The ten-track collection incorporates driving guitars, electronic programming, field recordings and dance-influenced bass rhythms, producing material that moves between confrontational rock and atmospheric experimentation.
Songs include "Just So You Know", "Cartoons", "Ultraviolet Blue", "The Mud Never Dries", "A Song From The Riverbed", "Love Song (A Good Kind Of Weapon)", "Into Shape", "Daily Recommendations", "I Am" and "Epping". Earlier single "The Mud Never Dries" provides an introduction to the project's restless musical character, combining aggressive instrumentation with electronic sampling and spoken-word elements.
The album examines the psychological consequences of contemporary digital culture, including information overload, constant connectivity and the increasingly uncertain boundary between physical experience and online representation. These subjects provide particularly appropriate material for a band whose name already suggests a complicated relationship with modern media. However, Cartoons also introduces moments of vulnerability and personal reflection, preventing the collection from becoming an uninterrupted exercise in social criticism. The project is available digitally and in physical formats, including an independent-record-store vinyl edition.
TV Priest have demonstrated that post-punk remains a flexible musical foundation rather than a fixed collection of familiar guitar sounds. Apparently the appropriate response to living in a world full of excessive information is to make an album containing enough unusual sounds to compete with it. Browse exciting post-punk releases in our post-punk section and keep up with daily updates in our news archive.