Nottingham’s Content Provider have never really given a toss about colouring inside the lines, and their new single ‘Moon’s Gravity’ is basically them setting fire to the colouring book.
It kicks off all dreamy and floaty, like they’re lulling you into some cosmic bedtime story, but don’t get comfortable. Within minutes, everything collapses into a racket of serrated guitars, basslines with more swagger than sense, and drums that sound like they’re trying to break out of the basement. It’s loud, messy, and oddly beautiful — the sort of noise that makes you want to grin and wince at the same time.
Lyrically, they’re off in their own world again. Space travel, plane crashes, existential dread — you know, just your standard Saturday night doom scroll turned into a song. It shouldn’t work, but it absolutely does, because Content Provider know how to ride the line between clever and completely unhinged.
Live, these lads are notorious for tearing their songs to pieces and rebuilding them right in front of you, like some kind of sonic Jenga. ‘Moon’s Gravity’ captures that same chaos in a way that feels raw and unpredictable, as if the whole thing might cave in at any second. Spoiler: it doesn’t, but you’ll be convinced it could.
Coming off last year’s Exposure Complete, this track feels like a statement: they’re not here to smooth things out, they’re here to rough them up even more. And honestly? That’s exactly what makes Content Provider one of the most exciting bands lurking in the UK’s underground right now.