Brimming with mind-blinding tales of being filled up and filled in, to the point where being filled (the tune uses Netflix binge culture as its desired target, and succeeds in stabbing it directly in the retina with a feathered, brass dart) bemoaning the absence of answers devoid despite the onslaught of questions that lay lonely, naked and starving before them. With every twist of the melodic keyboards in eyeliner applied by Mat Forrest (who also plays the guitar) and every lunge of the urgent, ugly bass by Ben Dawson driving things through bigger things, it’s a song concurrently commanding and condemning in equal measure. All caustic, indie complexities and baffling, dark disco magic Russian coldwave cobwebs settling atop the whole charging, Northern art riot. Mark Sturdy ©Į-Shaped Stories slams its foot firmly into the pedal that creates a Canopysaurus out of a Citroen. On this album, you can really get a feel for why if one was to blink whilst the Wind-Up Birds are either being wound up or winding down and you might just miss the pounding forever. On this album, you can really get to grips with why they’ve been the protagonist operating either on the most cult of cult levels that no underground is ever underground enough. Yard Act have been admirers of the band as not so much musical influencers observed from afar, but inspired to weave together a similar strand of political lyricism, wildly imaginative character profiles and the horrific strip they are strapped to whereby the drab is so drab, it almost becomes extraordinarily uncanny, unnervingly raw. The fans, either hypothetical or real people with a record collection that could align itself to the noise The Wind-Up Birds create could well be anything from REM, Sugarcubes, Flatmates, Arab Strap or Au Pairs.īut when talking about a group that has been active for as long as the new heroes, take Yard Act for example, the art in question is always going to be so much greater than just the sum of its sonic parts but really strives to analyse the evil between the teeth, to articulate as best as one can the eerie in the every day by each brushstroke and analytical highbeam sourced at this very Northern group. You’d be completely correct and unable not to be totally disproven by thinking the group sounds like what their special slice of art is rumoured to be ‘for fans of’. Their recent set of songs since 2020’s full-length album Summer Haunts, E-Shaped Stories is the new release from Leeds’ The Wind-Up Birds. Voyage will feature a total of 10 new tracks, with one Christmas song that could even see the group in contention for this year's coveted Christmas Number 1. Pre-orders for Voyage have also set a record for their label Universal Music UK, with 80,000 copies already sold before its release. The latter of the two became their first UK Top 10 single in 40 years, and started something of an ABBA Mania on the charts - with greatest hits collection ABBA Gold also re-entering the Top 5. The first taste of Voyage came from ABBA's first original music in 35 years - the double-single I Still Have Faith In You and Don't Shut Me Down. Last month, the pop pioneers announced their comeback, with the release of Voyage on November 5 and a state-of-the-art digital concert residency to take place in London. MORE: View ABBA's Official Charts history in full here You can now hear a preview of the finished song on TikTok, before it is released officially on Friday! /YQR8LjQ3H9 □ Inspired by the creation of the #ABBAVoyage concert, revisited 'Just A Notion', originally written in 1978, when putting together their new album 'Voyage'. Just A Notion will also be available to purchase in a CD format. Now, it's been re-packaged for inclusion on the forthcoming Voyage, Bjorn, Benny, Agnetha and Frida's first album in 40 years.įans will be able to hear the song in full this Friday (October 22). ABBA have announced they will release a new song, Just A Notion, this Friday.Ī fan favourite track for decades, the song was originally written for inclusion on the band's Voulez-Vous album, but was discarded and never officially released.
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