London-based post-punk quartet Desperate Journalist return for a fifth studio album of sardonic, wry humour in autumn 2024. No Hero, featuring the fabulous pre-singles `Unsympathetic Parts 1 & 2' and 'Afraid' as well as forthcoming lead-single 'You Say You're Lonely', finds the group seeking to gently evolve their jagged, noirish original sound into ever more interesting shapes. As creative re-entries go the pre-released singles are gleaming, beaming signposts towards an album which sees Desperate Journalist push and pull their original noirish indie sound into newer, ever more nubile shapes and jagged angles without losing that glowering essence rare. There are shiny synthesisers; there are fantastical gothic ruminations; there are stormtrooping ... read more