Wombo Announce EU / UK Tour !
Today Wombo announce a fresh run of dates late Summer in Europe and the UK. See the full list below, get your tickets & pick up Wombo’s releases in the Fire Talk Shop. The Slab / Keesh Mountain EPs are available on a limited edition vinyl pressing online or at your favorite independent record stores.
08.30 -Bristol, UK @ Rough Trade
08.31 - Brighton, UK @ The Hope & Ruin
09.01 - Oxford, UK @ Common Ground
09.02 - Manchester, UK @ Yes
09.04 - Glasgow, UK @ The Hug & Pint
09.06 - Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club
09.07 - London, UK @ Rich Mix
09.08 -- Huesden, NL @ Misty Fields Festival
09.10 - Brussels, BE @ Le Cheval Marin
09.11 - Paris, FR @ Pop Up
09.12 - Rennes, FR @ L'Antipode
09.14 - Leffinge, BE @ Leffingeleuren
09.16 - Berlin, DE @Shokoladen
09.18 - Copenhagen, DK @ Vega
09.20 - Yverdon Les-Bains, CH @ L'Amalgame
09.21 - Dublin, IR @ Workmen's Club
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“Slab” is the new EP from Louisville-based Wombo available digitally on Fire Talk. With past accolades from Bandcamp, Brooklyn Vegan, the FADER, Pitchfork, Paste & Flood, “the band’s expertly executed art-rock sound is complete with droning guitars, frenetic chords, and angular melodies that make it impossible not to get up and move to” (Uproxx). Slab continues their perchance for mesmerizing dreamscapes and eerily addictive refrains on this homespun, transitional EP.
Get both the “Slab” and “Keesh Mountain” EPs pressed to one vinyl record and limited to just 500 copies.
*This is a pre order and will ship on or before November 15th 2023
On the one year anniversary of “Blossomlooksdownuponus” Louisville, KY's avant-pop / post-punk / whatever-rock rookies of the year WOMBO have signed to Fire Talk. The excellent young trio of Sydney Chadwick (bass/vox), Cameron Lowe (guitar), and Joel Taylor (drums) follow in the footsteps of futuristic garage-funk greats with a lovably kool wit, while somehow managing to be sincerely, effortlessly, and unforgivingly themselves. The weird world of Wombo is a kaleidoscopic journey of sharp turns and surprising visions, a melting pot of influences with a cheeky cheshire-cat grin that coalesce into a trippy but infinite universe of the band’s own, and a portal into their unique vantage point without limitation. Already committed to living outside the traditionally-heralded country sound of the music scene in their hometown of Louisville, Sydney Chadwick (vocals) and Cameron Lowe (guitar) had previously played in punk pop band the Debauchees, and with the addition of Joel Taylor (drums) in 2016 they found a winning combination of more straightforward indie rock combined with Chadwick’s pitched up, oscillating vocals and unpredictable shifts in melody that see the band moving forward at an impressive pace. Their 2020 Blossomslookdownuponus LP is a snapshot of Wombo’s wide-ranging aspirations that careen across avant pop, post punk and warbly indie interludes with a sky’s-the-limit approach to translating the mundanity of regular life into their own high-frequency language.
Limited to 300 copies on Lemon Yellow Vinyl
‘Fairy Rust’, the new album from Wombo contemplates the spaces in-between, a meeting of the physicality of the land with the fluidity of the imagination, to uncanny effect. Across twelve tracks, sharpened guitar work, distorted freakouts and downtempo musings weave together a tapestry of sound that’s both intoxicating and effortless, where one minute it’s all deadpan post-punk energy, and the next Stereolab on a mountain top. The music functions as their own localized language that feels uniquely out-of-body. Conceived over the course of the last two years, the record is steeped in its own time warp of escapism, and influenced by fairy tales like the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Anderson that blend surreal situations with the mundane. Flirting with prog, pop and effervescent post-punk, Wombo’s forward-thinking approach set them apart as one of the most exciting up-and-coming bands right now. MIxed by Dave Vettraino (Dehd, Deeper, Lala Lala) & Mastered by Jonathan Schenke (Parquet Courts, Snail Mail, Pottery).
Get Wombo’s “Slab / Keesh Mountain” Split LP, “Fairy Rust” and “Blossomlooksdownuponus” all in one bundle for a special low price!