The Wave Pictures
Indie pop trio The Wave Pictures have announced details of a new single and an accompanying UK tour in April. 'If You Leave It Alone' will be released via Moshi Moshi Records on the 13th April, and is the lead track from the forthcoming new album of the same title out on the 4th May. Full details of the tour are below and feature a headline show at the ICA on the 15th April.
'If You Leave It Alone' is described by frontman and lyricist Dave Tattersall as " a good, long sad song in which, amongst other things, I describe the contents of my fridge". The single is backed by a new song, 'Polar Bear'.
The single, which kicks off the album and defines what Tattersall describes as "an acoustic guitar album", was one of twelve songs recorded during the album sessions in Berlin - "recorded live in one big session, over a period of maybe twelve hours...there was a lot of drinking and we just wanted to keep playing songs".
'If You Leave It Alone' embraces a "very proper, very old fashioned way of recording", cutting back on the electric arrangements of their debut, favouring horns and finger picking and placing a renewed focus on storytelling.
Bravely mining the lost essence of British Indie, The Wave Pictures were critically lauded last year for their debut album 'Instant Coffee Baby'. Short listed for The Guardian 'New Album Award' and included in Plan B's 'Albums of 2008', their seductively shabby love songs evoking the grubby romance of youth won them fans amongst public and critics alike.
UK TOUR:
April
Fri 3rd South Street Arts Centre, Reading
Mon 6th City Screen Basement, York
Tues 7th The Soul Tree, Cambridge
Wed 8th The Tin Angel, Coventry
Thurs 9th The Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
Fri 10th The Roundhouse, Manchester
Sat 11th Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
Sun 12th Buffalo Bar, Cardiff
Mon 13th Thekla, Bristol
Tues 14th The Freebutt, Brighton
Wed 15th ICA with An Experiment On A Bird In The Air Pump + Planet Earth, London