Shonk Wicketkeeper SKU: MER17 Barcode: 8436022626980 19.00 £19.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Meritprop Released Date: 16th October 2020 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Instrument-swapping London/Margate trio Wicketkeeper share news of their debut LP, Shonk, arriving on October 16th via Meritorio Records. Fourteen tracks of DIY outsider guitar-pop with nods to Pavement and Sebadoh, Shonk was recorded at the Gun Factory in Homerton with producer Lindsay Corstorphine (Sauna Youth, Primitive Parts) and captures the trio – comprised of brothers Simon (vocals, drums, guitar) and Alex Morley (bass, drums, guitar), and Ryan Oxley (bass, guitar) – at the peak of their insouciant powers. The news is accompanied by new single ‘The Side’: three minutes of crunchy guitar pseudo-Mascisisms and sun-flecked power-pop vocal harmonies, rooted in the dizzying sensation of finding a real-life doppelganger of yourself. As Simon describes it, “Have you ever seen someone in a crowd and recognised them, but then realised it’s because they look like you? I have, it probably says something about my ego tbh. One of my favourite songs to play live because it’s got a real loose breezy vibe, which suits my, erm ‘style’ of ‘drumming’! The lyrics swing quite erratically from droll arrogance to romantic realism, with a sprinkling of Michael McIntyre-esque observational comedy (facepalm).” Drawn from a collection of over 50 (!) songs written during a few years of Wicketkeeper loosely identifying as a band, Shonk offers a snapshot of their charmingly upbeat indie-rock recorded live in two days with Corstorphine. It includes the previously-released singles ‘Spin’, ‘Feeling’, ‘OK’ and ‘Night Night (Whatever)’, which have seen the band play across our fair isles alongside Cloud Nothings, Squid, Spielbergs and Japanese Breakfast, as well as releasing a split 12″ with Car Seat Headrest (via Luau Records, UK) and the Wicketkeeper EP on cassette (Reefers Records, US). This, though, marks the definitive iteration of the band’s disarmingly infectious racket, and while its breezy sonic palette may belie ruminations on the banality of everyday life and the importance of love in the face of certain, eventual death, these are ultimately songs engineered to crack grins; jokes and yarns between pals that we’re all in on. As Oxley explains: “This was always about three friends with no songs, getting into a practice room in North London and seeing what came of it. The only caveat being, it had to make us smile. None of us could play drums, there was no conversation about ‘what should we sound like?’, this is just how we sounded when we all plugged in and played together. Over a few years we got together when we could, and even played a few gigs here and there, and then came Shonk. Yeah, sure, by the time it comes out it will have been years since some of these songs were written but it’s still those same three friends, those same three smiles, just now with 14 songs (and some). From the practice room to the, well, practice room.” Artist Wicketkeeper Genre Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label Meritprop Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings A Lot To Lose I Can't Believe The Side Over and Over Night Night (Whatever) Modest Breakfast Wired Bodies Feeling Spin Welcome Tired OK Cigarettes Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Wicketkeeper and more from Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo View Product Quick View Wicketkeeper Zambroni Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Umpire Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 22nd September 2023 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Wicketkeeper Zambroni £25.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Umpire Records SKU: UMPIRE5 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 22nd September 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Health Rat Wars Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Loma Vista | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 16th February 2024 £26.00 Select options Health Rat Wars £26.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Loma Vista Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 16th February 2024 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Cosmonauts A-OK! 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