Slow Club return with their woozy new single ‘Ancient Rolling Sea.’ Available now from Moshi Moshi Records, ‘Ancient Rolling Sea’ is taken from Slow Club’s forthcoming full-length album, which is set for release later this year.
How do you keep a band interesting after ten years? It’s a question Slow Club’s Charles Watson and Rebecca Taylor must have asked themselves as they started work on their fourth album. From the cute indie-folk of their 2009 debut Yeah So, to the wonky-pop of its follow up Paradise, two years later, to the sophisticated, polished soul of 2014’s Complete Surrender, this is a band that have never stood still, going out of their way to present a new version of themselves on every release, while maintaining the spirit, the warmth and the chemistry that has marked their music since they formed in 2006.
“This song felt as though it just did not want to arrive for a long long time,” Charles says of ‘Ancient Rolling Sea’. “I worked on the music for the whole time we were writing, and the words just landed at the last minute. With the approach I took on lyrics I wanted it to be more conversational. I wanted it to be direct, as if it were being whispered in your ear.”
Produced by the master of Southern-gothic folk, Matthew E. White, and performed with his in-house band at Richmond, Virgina’s Spacebomb Studios, ‘Ancient Rolling Sea’ is a slow-burning hymn packed with wistful guitars layered over Charles lamenting chant, “By your side, by your side, I’ll always be by your side…”
“2015 was a year I don’t think any of our friends will look back on with fondness,” Charles explains. “When something really awful happens it can galvanise people and bring them together in a way that’s really hard to image. I learned what a lot of my dearest friends are made of, and its pure magic”.
Tickets for the following shows: smarturl.it/SlowClubLive
24/05 – Coventry, UK – Warwick Arts Centre
25/05 – St Albans, UK – The Horn
26/05 – Poole, UK – Mr Kyps
27/05 – Southampton, UK – Hampshire Joiners Arms
28/05 – Bristol, UK – The Lantern, Colston Hall
30/05 – Hereford, UK – HowTheLightGetsIn2016: Philosophy & Music Festival
31/05 – Nottingham, UK – Bodega Social Club
01/06 – Ashford, UK – Revelation St Mary’s
02/06 – Brighton, UK -Komedia (Brighton)
03/06 – Margate, UK – Tom Thumb Theatre
16/07 – Salisbury, UK – Wiltshire Larmer Tree Festival
21/08 – Powys, Wales – Green Man Festival
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