Taken from the Essex-born folk troubadour’s forthcoming new album “Kill Them With Kindness”, due for release on 1st December via BotMusic, Pelican Crossing is, says Beans on Toast himself “a song about the absurdities of the modern world and the appalling redesign of Pelican Crossings across the whole of the United Kingdom. Negligence or plain corruption? That’s for you to decide.”
Still very much a folk song in the style we have come to know and love, though this time the music is brought to life by Beans’ new band, The Beans on Toast Band. Despite its dry and observational lyrics on the absurdities of modern life, Pelican Crossing is a jaunty, bright song with tinkling keyboards, joyous rhythms and melodic hooks for days.
Recorded at Greenmount Studios in Leeds with the Beans on Toast Band, “Kill Them With Kindness” features a collection of insanely talented musical friends hand-picked from the UK music and festival scene.
“We’ve done a few tours together, but this was our first venture into a studio. Each one of them is amazing, and together… well, I’m proper chuffed with how it sounds,” Beans on Toast explains. “This album is a bit of a juxtaposition, as is the title. There are songs that deal with the current state of the world. Wars, maniac leaders, the rise of AI and the fall of the establishment. Then there are songs about trees, late nights in music venues, art, love and my new cat. As usual, it’s a time stamp of my thoughts and feelings from the past year on planet Earth.”
‘Kill Them With Kindness’ tracklist
The Great North Road
2. Gods, Children and Robots
3. Comfortable in the Counterculture
4. Pelican Crossing
5. The Fall of the Establishment
6. The Glastonbury Oak
7. A Real Rock n Roller
8. Big Night out in Shrewsbury
9. That’s why I don’t drink Tequila Anymore
10. Taylor Swift for President
11. Our Cat
12. Happy Birthday Baby
13. Magicians and OutlawsADVERTISEMENT
Out on 1st December 2025 “Kill Them With Kindness” can be pre-ordered now HERE
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