Produced by Tom Healy (Tiny Ruins, Marlon Williams, The Chills), engineered by Tom Bell (David Kilgour and the Heavy Eights), and mastered by Christian Wright (Abbey Road Studios, Fontaines DC), the album delves into new sonic territory, with inspiration coming from 60’s psychedelia and dance-rock among others. It will be out on Friday 18th November via Dot Dash. Pre-order your copy here.
Written and recorded over the last eighteen months, the New Zealand four-piece group’s first full-length album explores the contrasting ways we perceive and interact with the world, how we define ourselves through work, And the subtle shift from viewing objects in the world as fixed ‘things’, to experiencing them as processes and interactions unfolding.
Of the first single, "The Way It Works" lead vocalist Oscar Mein reveals: “A dream got me started on this song and the record as a whole. A pretty dreadful dream where a giant arm reached out from the dark to greet me, and each time I tried to shake it, my hand would go limp and slip away, or I’d get hold of a finger and cling on. The more desperately I tried to shake the hand, the more I sensed this impatience and disappointment growing from who or whatever was on the other side.
We tried recording it a few times over the month we were in Haast. Each time it knotted the stomach of the room, and we’d have to take a break till it became this almost taboo thing to bring up. Finally, on one of our last nights in the hall - having recorded the bones of the record - we decided to let loose a touch to see what happened. Like a child we’d accidentally scared off, the song cautiously came back into the room, parts began building, the hand reached out, and we received it. And that is the way…” — Oscar Mein
Check out the album's tracklist and watch the video dropped the video for "The Way It Works", below.
Working Title tracklisting:
1. The Way It Works
2. Behind Their Years
3. Divide Symbol (feat. Church)
4. Headline Opinion
5. Something
6. Simple Pleasures
7. Pink Beach (feat. Motte)
8. Lake Ellery
9. Dæmon
10. Day To Day
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