Lucky Number Music

Glasgow’s Walt Disco have today released their brand new single and video “Come Undone”, the fourth track to emerge from their forthcoming second album The Warping, out June 14th. Co-written with labelmate Jessica Winter, the standout single is accompanied by a striking, highly stylised video inspired by German expressionist cinema and directed by their frequent collaborators Kasparas Vidunas and Eric J. Liddle.

““Come Undone” is our lonely party song, it’s about the yearning for company, physical touch, and sexuality that is often universally felt by a person who is single.” explains singer Jocelyn Si; “These desires can be briefly satisfied by dates and short flings and, at those times, I’d find I would open up more to these strangers than to friends that I’d known and loved for years. “Nobody sees me the way you perceive me is easy” is quite a ridiculous thing to say about someone you have just met.”

Walt Disco are also to headline the launch event for Charles Jeffrey’s ‘The Lore Of Loverboy’ exhibition at Somerset House on June 19th, building on the band’s longstanding collaborative relationship with the leading Scottish designer. Further, having supported OMD across Europe and the UK this spring, Walt Disco will join them again for a full North American tour in the autumn, alongside summer festivals including Mighty Hoopla and their own November headline UK and European tour. All dates on their website.

Beloved Spanish indie rockers Hinds today announce the release of their utterly triumphant fourth album, VIVA HINDS, written by the band’s co-founders, co-vocalists, co-guitarists and co-songwriters Carlotta Cosials and Ana Perrote after a series of endings. Hitting a creative rut following the release of their 2020 album The Prettiest Curse, their bassist and drummer devastatingly decided to leave the band. They also split with their management team, lost touring revenue due to lockdowns, and were without a label for the first time. But when Perrote and Cosials got together to write again, it became clear that their connection, one so special that they call themselves “millionaires in friendship,” would be all they needed to get them through. VIVA HINDS – the most accomplished, sonically adventurous, honest and celebratory record of Hinds’ career – is only the beginning.

Featuring the band’s first-ever Spanish language songs, as well as collaborations with Beck and Fontaines D.C.’s Grian Chatten, the album will be released on September 6th. Recorded in rural France, the album was produced by Pete Robertson (Beabadoobee), engineered by the GRAMMY-nominated Tom Roach, and mixed by GRAMMY-winning engineer Caesar Edmunds (The Killers, Wet Leg).

Alongside the announcement of VIVA HINDS, the band have also shared their massive lead single “Boom Boom Back”, the first song Hinds wrote for the new record. The hypnotic track features the aforementioned Beck, who they met by chance at a film screening on a trip to LA. The accompanying music video, brimming with bravado and Hinds’ unmistakeable charm, was filmed in Hollywood and directed by Perote and Cosials themselves.

Hinds have created the most accomplished album of their careers, one that celebrates their shared history and reaffirms that this band is in it for the long haul with VIVA HINDS, expect to hear much more in the coming months.

New York pop savants Charly Bliss are back, and they want their new album Forever, out August 16th, to crush you under the weight of pure feeling. The quartet of Eva Hendricks, Sam Hendricks, Spencer Fox and Dan Shure want to sweep you up in a hurricane of heartbreak. And the album’s powerful lead single “Nineteen“, released today alongside a video directed by Henry Kaplan, does just that.

“I’ll always be fascinated by love and relationships that don’t quite work and bring tsunamis of heartbreak. The further away I am from it, the kind of love that bashes you against the rocks just as often as it carries you over waves of manic joy, the easier it is to see the full scope of it. First love is crazy,” Eva Hendricks says of the song.

Forever, produced by Jake Luppen (Hippo Campus) and Caleb Wright (Samia) along with the band’s Sam Hendricks, is full of the band’s biggest, brightest power pop yet, but it’s an evolution, not a departure. Forever crams a lifetime of feeling, decades of friendship, and years of craft into a batch of sonically tight but emotionally vast songs that activate the pleasure centres in your brain whether you’re listening alone in your headphones or in a packed room at a live show. The songs shimmer and burst, the way fireworks look like they should sound.

Walt Disco have today released their brand new single “Jocelyn”, the third track to emerge from their forthcoming second album The Warping, out June 14th, following on from their ‘cynical disco banger’ “You Make Me Feel So Dumb” and their wistful comeback single “Pearl”. Watch the dream-like music video below.

“Jocelyn” is a tender meditation on childhood, identity and the parent-child connection. Taking the form of a dreamlike conversation between co-songwriter and singer Jocelyn Si and their mother, “Jocelyn” digs into the isolation of hiding a part of yourself and the euphoria of allowing it to shine through. The track, says its namesake, is “about recognising the version of yourself that you love. And it’s not always easy to have that be the one that faces the world.”

“Lyrically it’s a dreamlike internal conversation between my mother and I, from small talk to mannerisms I’ve had since childhood. Such conversations come to mind when you change your name and gender; but it doesn’t erase these memories. I hope to live in a world where parents can allow themselves to understand the upset they may feel when a child makes this decision but can love and support them all the same ”

The band adds; “Everyone has a side of themselves that at some point, or maybe always, they feel they need to keep hidden away. This track explores the isolation of hiding a part of yourself and the euphoria of the times when you can let it out. The despairing lyrical matter of the verses opens into the joyous choruses, it’s meant to feel transformative to represent the idea of leaving your shame in the past and finding the strength to start anew.”

The band also announced a November headline tour of the UK and Europe with dates including Glasgow’s SWG3 Warehouse and London’s Bush Hall – all dates and ticket links on their website.

Glasgow’s Walt Disco have today announced their second album The Warping, out June 14th and available to pre-order now. Alongside the album announce the band have released new single “You Make Me Feel So Dumb” – the album’s “cynical disco banger”, inspired by the social burnout suffered from networking while on tour, accompanied by a wonderful tongue-in-cheek video that sees the band tearing up a stuffy corporate mixer event, which you can watch below. The new track is the second release to be drawn from the new album, following January single “Pearl”.

Written on both sides of the Atlantic, from Los Angeles and Austin to Glasgow and London, The Warping is a significant step forward from a band who have already seen strong success with debut album Unlearning. On The Warping, deft lyricism takes in deeply personal issues and writes them large, transposing feelings of envy, fear, joy and hope out of individual experiences. Yearning for another self is a recurring dream on The Warping, as they explore gender dysphoria and envy with radical honesty, accepting them as two tangled threads in the same experience.

Taking the cinematic glam of their debut and pushing it further, the band brought in classically trained orchestral musicians. Sonically, the horns, woodwind and swelling string sections lend an entirely new level to the Walt Disco sound – one that feels both fantastically organic and technically accomplished. While the foundations were laid during pre-album recording sessions at Phil Manzanera of Roxy Music’s studio the songs themselves largely come together in collaboration. The Warping was co-produced by the band and Chris McCrory, with engineering from The Vale studios’ Chris D’Adda, and the instrumentation is almost entirely analogue.

Speaking about the new album the band explain “With The Warping we explore themes of change, growth and dealing with the complex struggles that feature in anyone’s life. It feels like our most biographical body of work yet, listening to it now is like looking at a snapshot of a moment in time for us as people and as a band. This album is a roadmap of our vulnerabilities in a way, but it feels good to be so honest with our music and lay everything on the table with both our lyrics and arrangements. That acceptance of one’s emotions and honesty with oneself is what we’d hope people can take away from listening to The Warping.”