Kevin Bronson on February 17th, 2015

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Palma Violets roared out of the U.K. in 2013 with “180,” their debut album of raging guitars and shout-along choruses. The quartet — Alexander “Chilli” Jesson, Samuel Thomas Fryer, Jeffrey Peter Mayhew and William Martin Doyle — today announced their follow-up, “Danger in the Club,” would be out May 5. It was produced by John Leckie (Stone Roses, Radiohead, The Fall), and, says Jesson, was informed by “the rawness and simplicity … of pre-punk.” He adds: “A lot of bands want to over-complicate their second album, we know that we didn’t.” British photographer Roger Sargent made the video for the title track, filmed in one take the Lambeth band’s neighborhood pub.

||| Live: Palma Violets play March 25 at the Echo and March 28 at Burgerama 4 at the Observatory.

||| Previously: Live at the Echoplex, live at SXSW.