Amsterdam Indie Rock Septet Personal Trainer Drop Irresistible New Single “The Lazer” From Upcoming Debut LP ‘Big Love Blanket’

From its opening moments, “The Lazer” from Amsterdam seven-piece Personal Trainer welcome the listener with a slide of fuzzy guitar before slipping into its irresistible chorus hook. Classic ’90s Brit-rock guitar riffs and David Byrne-esque delivery piece together for the verses, as the Dutch band do their best British indie rock impression.

Off their upcoming debut album Big Love Blanket, “The Lazer” is a feisty piece of the puzzle that is the 10-track collection, due November 4th. A live favourite the song evokes a timeless post-punk-meets-sweaty-dive-bar-pop-rock-sing-along that instantly injects dopamine into the system.

“The Lazer” was one of the first songs we ever wrote together a band”, says band leader and frontman Willem Smit says of their new single.“To me “The Lazer” always felt like my big Personal Trainer anthem. We used to have this shifting line-up situation where I didn’t want to rehearse much, so I wanted to make songs that were very easy to play. “Can you play an A chord and a D chord? Do you want to be in my band?” was the vibe. And that’s “The Lazer.”

It’s easily the oldest song on the record, most trainers hate it – that’s probably because we play it nearly every show, and we played it for an hour straight during our 24-hour show last year – but it always stuck with me. It feels like a logical decision to put it on our first long record.”

“The Lazer” is paired to a DIY video, self-recorded at Willem and his girlfriend’s house, with Willem in front of “the wall”, upon which loyal fans will see mounted all sorts of trinkets and memories from the band so far, including the artwork for all their singles, the latest for “The Lazer” being a drawing of a band playing a live show that Willem scribbled down himself as a young boy.

Watch the music video below, and you can catch Personal Trainer with fellow Dutch group De Staat this winter (dates further past):

Tour dates:

Nov

2 The Crescent, York
3 The Windmill, London
16 L’International, Paris
17 Botanique, Brussels *
24 Hedon, Zwolle *
26 Ooterpoort, Groningen *
30 Maassilo, Rotterdam *

Dec

2 Paard, Den Haag *
8 Tivolivredenburg, Utrecht *
10 :013, Tilburg *
13 Muziekgieterij, Maastricht *
16 Doornroosje, Nijmegen *
17 Doornroosje, Nijmegen *
18 Doornroosje, Nijmegen *

* w/De Staat