If you came across their 'Businessman's Guide To Witchcraft' earlier this year, you will have some idea of where Waves Of Fury are coming from. Or there again, maybe not.
Either way ‘Thirst’ is the debut album from the Somerset based outfit; a 10 track debut long player that sees Carter Sharp (vocals), Bim Williams (horns), Fil Ward (guitars/vocals), James Macphee (drums) and Jamie Bird (pianos/vocals) take up the rhythm & blues blueprint and filter it through a 40+ year historical path that encompasses everything from Motown & Stax to The Stooges, Sex Pistols, Spiritualized & The Mary Chain.
Recorded at PJ Harvey’s Bristol studio, Waves Of Fury spent several weeks touring the southern states of America. That experience very much shapes the record as Carter Sharp explains: “We are based in Somerset, and having travelled a bit in Southern US, I think it's our closest equivalent to some of those places; a similar sense of darkness, reservation, secretiveness, closed communities. The songs are about types of behaviour and relationships that happen everywhere, but which maybe seem a bit more dangerous away from bright, noisy, crowded cities. I was interested in the idea that maybe it's easier to get away with things in dark, quiet and isolated corners”.
Given that lyrically the album is inspired by Gothic writers like Edgar Allen Poe and Saul Bellow, expect plenty of the 'dark'.
‘Thirst’ is out on October 29 through Alive Naturalsound.
Waves Of Fury will be launching the album at The Shacklewell Arms, London on November 20.
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