Something Looming Marcel Wave SKU: UTR161 Barcode: 828887116115 16.00 £16.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Upset The Rhythm Released Date: 14th June 2024 Buying Format: 180g 1LP Forthcoming Pre Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Debut album from London group Marcel Wave, featuring members of Sauna Youth and Cold Pumas. Limited 180g black vinyl (500 copies worldwide) “Marcel Wave combine sharp-eyed Northern lyricism with DIY guitar-janglers rooted in a retro C86 aesthetic. Epic finale ‘Linoleum Floor’…is a gloriously bleak rumination on the horrors of enforced late-night hedonism worthy of prime Pulp” UNCUT Marcel Wave write eulogies for tragic actresses, ancient riverbeds and concrete obscenity. Their inaugural sonic instalment ‘Something Looming’ is part trades club symphony, part itchy serenade, and part wistful lament. As their heady concoction of ‘Meades meets Pat-E-Smith meets Kirklees Borough Council’ gets prepped to be formally baptised on a dank stage near you, Upset the Rhythm and Feel It Records have dutifully stepped in to deliver its songbook to the masses on both sides of the pond. Formed when Lindsay Corstorphine and Christopher Murphy of Sauna Youth and brethren Oliver and Patrick Fisher of Cold Pumas were summoned by northern ink-slinger Maike Hale-Jones, Marcel Wave’s debut offering is a walk through a smoke-filled pub with yellowing wallpaper and all eyes on you. It’s a chronicle of the death of the docklands, the decline of industry, of the high street, of civic pride, of civilisations, of hopes and dreams. As Hale-Jones delivers the bad news in her low, West Yorkshire brogue, Corstorphine adds the bells and whistles via the frantic pulsations of a wheezing Hohner organ in tandem with Fisher O’s rasping guitar. MW are completed by the throbbing basslines of Murphy and Fisher P’s fervent rhythms. The title itself sets the tone for the listener. There’s a sense of foreboding in Hale-Jones’ lyrics which sit at the quintet’s core—elegiac, sardonic and piquant in equal measure. A mixture of narrative epilogues and inward paeans, her words weave tales across a broad thematic church. Crooked tales of urban renewal and the voices left behind are probed in ‘Barrow Boys’ and ‘Stop/Continue’ and are at the fore in ‘Where There’s Muck There’s Brass’ with its refrain lamenting ‘Concrete and slate shine in the rain, cities destroyed, nothing to gain’. In these lyrics, tower blocks loom over terraced houses with the same shadows that the Hollywood sign casts over Peg Entwistle before she takes her tragic leap. ‘Peg’ and ‘Elsie’ are both meditations on two different actresses with different fates crushed by the cut-throat trappings of showbusiness: ‘The mad hopes break, fragile as glass. She traded it all, for the cutting room floor.’ A snaking, existential dread also runs through the album, stated more obliquely in the otherwise poppier interludes of the title track ‘Something Looming’ and album opener ‘Bent Out of Shape’, and present too on the comparatively ramshackle ‘Discount Centre’, where Hale-Jones reports ‘On a mini bus on the outskirts of Enfield, I’m losing all of my spark’. On the album closing weeper ‘Linoleum Floor’, it is laid barer still—a keyboard-led reflection on the deflating nights out of our early-twenties. Marcel Wave invites the listener to dance to society’s decline, and then to later weep into its lukewarm pint. Artist Marcel Wave Genre Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label Upset The Rhythm Buying Options 180g 1LP Format 180g , 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Bent Out of Shape Barrow Boys Something Looming Peg Mudlarks Where There’s Muck There’s Brass Discount Centre Great British High Street Elsie Ides of March Stop/Continue Linoleum Floor Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Nearly New View Product Quick View Theo Loom Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Theo Loom | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 20th November 2020 £7.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Theo Loom £7.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Theo Loom SKU: nn214926 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 20th November 2020 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Pontiak Sun On Sun Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Thrill Jockey | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 24th January 2017 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Pontiak Sun On Sun £17.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Thrill Jockey SKU: THRILL206LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 24th January 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Something For Kate …The Answer to Both Your Questions Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Murmur | 12", EP/Mini Album Released 6th May 2020 £60.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Something For Kate …The Answer to Both Your Questions £60.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Murmur SKU: nn202193 Formats: 12", EP/Mini Album Released Date: 6th May 2020 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket On Sale View Product Quick View Thick Syrup Living in Leeds Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Gringo Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 20th February 2018 £10.99 £19.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Thick Syrup Living in Leeds £10.99 £19.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Gringo Records SKU: WAAT068LP Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 20th February 2018 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Stroppies, The Look Alive Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Tough Love | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 5th June 2020 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Stroppies, The Look Alive £16.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Tough Love SKU: TLV130LP Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 5th June 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Liars The Apple Drop Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Mute | 1LP Released 6th August 2021 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Liars The Apple Drop £19.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Mute SKU: STUMM464 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 6th August 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Berries, The High Flying Man Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Run For Cover Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 19th August 2022 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Berries, The High Flying Man £24.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Run For Cover Records SKU: RFC241 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 19th August 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Afghan Whigs, The Uptown Avondale Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Sub Pop | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 3rd November 2017 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Afghan Whigs, The Uptown Avondale £22.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Sub Pop SKU: SP175 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 3rd November 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Dressy Bessy Kingsized Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Yep Roc | 180g, 1LP Released 5th February 2016 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Dressy Bessy Kingsized £21.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Yep Roc SKU: LPYEP2458 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 5th February 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Breeders, The Last Splash Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | 4AD | 1LP Released 15th May 2018 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Breeders, The Last Splash £16.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: 4AD SKU: CAD3014 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 15th May 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Start again
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