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Wave Machines announce new single

May 10, 2009, 11:15 PM

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An art rock disco brought to the boil with a Cash Converter keyboard and start-up drum kit, I Go I Go I Go is released on 8th June on Neapolitan Recordings

From instinctive fits and starts of guitar, cowbell and drums, I Go I Go I Go blossoms into a sparkling hook of mirror ball guitar. Getting a full release ahead of Wave Machines’ debut album in June, I Go had a limited edition release on Chess Club label last year, selling out before the records arrived from the pressing plant, the track picked up regular plays on Radio 1, XFM, and 6Music.

A mercurial Merseyside four piece, Wave Machines create instinctive art-pop; rhythms built of melodic ticks and bleeps, polka dots of sound drawn together beneath Tim Bruzon’s falsetto vocal, part Beck Hansen part Barry Gibb. With their English melancholia pricked by impudent promise… Wave Machines join that eccentric lineage of home-grown musical adventurers; XTC, The Beta Band, Hot Chip.

Released on June 22nd debut album Wave If You’re Really Here is a riot of genre crushing, and shape-shifting pop. The white-boy-funk of Greatest Escape We Ever Made and The Line; passive aggressive impotence brought to bare on Punk Spirit; safety in numbers I Joined A Union and Carl Brown’s literally soul searching plea Wave If You’re Really There. The worlds of commercial and mainstream pop are delightfully re-imagined on I Go I Go I Go and Keep The Lights On, and perhaps most affecting of all, drummer Vidar Norheim‘s lament for the abandoned buildings of Liverpool, the almost-instrumental hum of Dead Houses.

The band are heading for summer appearances on the Glastonbury John Peel Stage, Lovebox, Electric Picnic and Bestival, as well as forthcoming appearances at Liverpool Sound City and Dot To Dot festival.

FORTHCOMING LIVE DATES: 18th MAY LONDON, Islington Bar Academy; 21st MAY LIVERPOOL, Sound City with John Foxx at Static Gallery. 22nd MAY LIVERPOOL, Sound City with White Lies; 22nd MAY MANCHESTER, Hungry Pigeon Festival; 23rd MAY BRISTOL Dot-to-Dot; 24th MAY NOTTINGHAM, Dot-to-Dot; 6th JUNE BIRMINGHAM, Pritchattsbury Festival; 11th JUNE STIRLING, Tolbooth; 12th JUNE ABERDEEN, Tunnels; 13th JUNE ROCKNESS FESTIVAL, Inverness; 28th JUNE GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL, Somerset; 30th JUNE NORWICH, Arts Centre; 19th JULY, LOVEBOX, Main Stage at Victoria Park; 25th JULY CAMP BESTIVAL, Lulworth Castle; 4th SEPTEMBER ELECTRIC PICNIC, Stradbally; 11th SEPTEMBER BESTIVAL, Isle Of Wight;
















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