Slow Club have announced details of their debut album, new single and UK summer shows. The much-loved duo are finally set to release their highly anticipated debut album ‘Yeah So’ on 6th July through Moshi Moshi. The album will be preceded by the release of new single ‘It Doesn’t Have To Be Beautiful’ on the 22nd June, plus Slow Club are going to be playing their biggest London headline shows to date at the ICA and Scala. Full live show details are below, also including festival appearances at Isle of Wight, Glastonbury, Latitude and Winterwell.
From the outset there is something immediately familiar and yet vitally inventive about Slow Club; the riotous rallying calls of ‘Because We’re Dead’ and ‘Dance ‘Til The Morning Light’, the unlikely anti-folk ‘epics’ ‘Giving Up On Love’ and ‘Our Most Brilliant Friends’; songs built on skiffling ‘Crickets’ rhythms and the lost art of a good middle eight. Throughout the album the twin voices of Charles Watson and Rebecca Taylor conspire with an unmistakably youthful vigour, book ended by the deft ballads ‘When I Go’ and ‘Boys On Their Birthdays’, dexterous soliloquies of admission and humour.
A string of single releases on their label home Moshi Moshi, and crucial development time on the live circuit has made Slow Club an irresistible prospect. Live as on record, Charles and Rebecca enrapture audiences with the same involuntary joy and simplistic rush that they themselves imbue. Their highly developed partnership delivering sweet harmonious hooks, rockabilly beats and exuberant yelps and yips, that spill out across the album.
As with Slow Clubs early singles, ‘Yeah So’was recorded almost entirely within the bosom of their hometown Sheffield, with Richard Hawley’s long term live and studio engineer Mike Timm at controls. His involvement according to Charles, was vital “Being a duo its often difficult to ‘let go’ on certain decisions… Mike has been really important providing a ‘buffer state’ between us.”
There is occasional instrumental and vocal assistance from David Glover, and a closing track appearance by Brian O'Murchu (drums) and Jamie Morrison (glass bottle!), but Slow Club are defined by a their own distinct and powerful partnership. Charles with bruised vocal, rasping guitar and disarming lightness of touch; Rebecca with her dash of Northern Soul and sharp wit, playing stand up drums amid a wild array of percussive apparatus - wooden chairs, glass bottles, and spoons.
These two are more than charming anti-folk troubadours or the lo-fi acoustic end of the Sheffield scene; they are the real thing. That spontaneous intangible ‘thing’ that comes jumping off records and crackling off the stage, hanging crystalline for fleeting moments to confound and intrigue.
Summer live dates:
June
Sat 13th Isle of Wight festival
Sat 20th Moshi Moshi takeover @ Winterwell festival,
Gloucestershire
Mon 22nd Single launch @ ICA, London
Fri 26th Glastonbury
July
Sun 19th Latitude festival, Southwold
Sun 26th Secret garden party, Kent
September
Thurs 24th Scala, London
From the outset there is something immediately familiar and yet vitally inventive about Slow Club; the riotous rallying calls of ‘Because We’re Dead’ and ‘Dance ‘Til The Morning Light’, the unlikely anti-folk ‘epics’ ‘Giving Up On Love’ and ‘Our Most Brilliant Friends’; songs built on skiffling ‘Crickets’ rhythms and the lost art of a good middle eight. Throughout the album the twin voices of Charles Watson and Rebecca Taylor conspire with an unmistakably youthful vigour, book ended by the deft ballads ‘When I Go’ and ‘Boys On Their Birthdays’, dexterous soliloquies of admission and humour.
A string of single releases on their label home Moshi Moshi, and crucial development time on the live circuit has made Slow Club an irresistible prospect. Live as on record, Charles and Rebecca enrapture audiences with the same involuntary joy and simplistic rush that they themselves imbue. Their highly developed partnership delivering sweet harmonious hooks, rockabilly beats and exuberant yelps and yips, that spill out across the album.
As with Slow Clubs early singles, ‘Yeah So’was recorded almost entirely within the bosom of their hometown Sheffield, with Richard Hawley’s long term live and studio engineer Mike Timm at controls. His involvement according to Charles, was vital “Being a duo its often difficult to ‘let go’ on certain decisions… Mike has been really important providing a ‘buffer state’ between us.”
There is occasional instrumental and vocal assistance from David Glover, and a closing track appearance by Brian O'Murchu (drums) and Jamie Morrison (glass bottle!), but Slow Club are defined by a their own distinct and powerful partnership. Charles with bruised vocal, rasping guitar and disarming lightness of touch; Rebecca with her dash of Northern Soul and sharp wit, playing stand up drums amid a wild array of percussive apparatus - wooden chairs, glass bottles, and spoons.
These two are more than charming anti-folk troubadours or the lo-fi acoustic end of the Sheffield scene; they are the real thing. That spontaneous intangible ‘thing’ that comes jumping off records and crackling off the stage, hanging crystalline for fleeting moments to confound and intrigue.
Summer live dates:
June
Sat 13th Isle of Wight festival
Sat 20th Moshi Moshi takeover @ Winterwell festival,
Gloucestershire
Mon 22nd Single launch @ ICA, London
Fri 26th Glastonbury
July
Sun 19th Latitude festival, Southwold
Sun 26th Secret garden party, Kent
September
Thurs 24th Scala, London
