The Wave Pictures announce new album 'Brushes With Happiness'
The Wave Pictures have announced details of the first of two albums for 2018. Brushes With Happiness will be released June 22nd on Moshi Moshi Records, followed by Look Inside Your Heart in October.
Listen to first track, Jim below.
The album was recorded to tape in a small room, in one night. The band intended to keep it simple, emulating the jazz, blues and live albums that they love. “The blues is very important to us. One of the questions we ask ourselves is: how do you play the blues without actually playing a blues? The blues is all about mystery, mystery as a fact of everyday life. What people call mundane is really magical, they are just blind to it.” Dave Tattersall
The band explained the steps they followed when recording the album:
- Tattersall didn’t write any music prior to the recording sessions, just lyrics.
- Everything on record is a first take and mostly material that Jonny and Franic had never heard before and Dave had never played. None of it existed in any shape or form before they put it to tape.
- They recorded it drunk and high, late at night so as to be as relaxed as possible.
- The songs are predominantly in minor key. Dave explains; “I cannot help how I feel - for me this is the happiest kind of key to play in.”
Tattersall explains further; “Listening to the album feels like being in a ceremony. It takes you to that place. This is music that emanates from one group of people in one place in space and time. Listening to it is like being let in on a secret.”
The band also head out on tour in June
14 EDINBURGH - SNEAKY PETE'S
15 GLASGOW - CCA
16 NEWCASTLE - CLUNY 2
17 MANCHESTER - DEAF INSTITUTE
18 NOTTINGHAM - THE MAZE
19 CARDIFF - CLWB IFOR BACH
20 BRIGHTON - KOMEDIA
21 BIRMINGHAM - HARE AND HOUNDS
22 LANCASTER - THE YORKSHIRE HOUSE
23 CAMBRIDGE - STOREYS FIELD CENTRE
24 SHEFFIELD - PICTURE HOUSE
25 BRISTOL - THE FLEECE
26 OXFORD - THE JERICHO TAVERN
