"your a pain in my chest"
I'm Only Going To Hurt You by the Glaswegian Gothic post punk electro pop outfit, The Ninth Wave, is an incredibly dance evoking track despite the dark center (and edges). It is more than just the head bobbing beat and heavy and exquisitely funky and dirty synth bass lines. Haydn Park-Patterson's vox with accent in full swing (thank god) is so fucking engaging. His deep resonance will grab you but when he wails, the hook at the end of his vocal sustain will grab you further. Produced wonderfully, by Faris Badwan of The Horrors, it is the second single from the upcoming EP "Happy Days!" set to drop on July 31st via Distiller Records. Recently the band performed a Livestream Show (check out here) that raised £300 in support of @BLMUK.
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The Happy Days! EP is the follow up to The Ninth Wave’s debut LP Infancy, a record that this past week was nominated for the AIM Independent Music Awards 2020 for “Best Independent Album”. Among other accolades, Infancy won the band praise from The Guardian who proclaimed them “the most undeniably alive thing we’ve heard” and Noisey who glowingly described their sound as “a brilliant, bleak mixture of 80s rock bands like The Cure and Sonic Youth, but with a synth pop sheen.”
The Ninth Wave have never been known for half-measures, but they are making a bold, pop statement with “I’m Only Going To Hurt You”. From the showmanship of singer Haydn Park-Patterson to the neon synths and propulsive drum rolls; this is the sound of a band with not only a swaggering confidence, but a playfulness to match it.
Haydn on the track: “‘I’m Only Going To Hurt You’, the second single from our upcoming Happy Days! EP, is a song that has existed in so many forms that it is hard to recognise the original demo and the final recording as the same song. It started out life in the form of one of my (Haydn’s) poems, ‘My Severed Heart’, from which the pre chorus and chorus lyrics were taken. Since then it’s been dragged through different arrangements, keys and styles until we almost decided to scrap it. It wasn’t until Calum, Kyalo and Millie reimagined the backbone of the song that things fell into place. The main rhythmic elements of this song were made on Millie’s Elektron Digitakt, using field recordings of scrap bits of metal that surrounded the studio. The song itself is centred around an internal conflict faced after realising the difficulties of a relationship that seemed to be damaged even before it was allowed to flourish.”
With the new line-up now featuring Kyalo and Calum -- friends of Haydn and Millie’s from other bands on the Glasgow scene, who share equally in songwriting duties -- The Ninth Wave will open an auspicious new chapter of their story with the release of the Happy Days! EP. Recorded in part at the suitably gothly titled Black Bay studio on the tiny island of Great Bernera in Outer Hebrides of Scotland, produced with Faris Badwan and engineered and mixed by Max Hayes, it’s The Ninth Wave like you’ve never heard them before -- rawer, realer, more playful and revealing.
A danceable and downbeat instant anthems to fucked up romance, Happy Days! (the title is just ever-so-slightly tongue-in-cheek) finds The Ninth Wave pushing their sound in all sorts of new directions with quicksilver electronic beats, dream-pop soundscapes, larynx-shredding emotional catharsis, harsh noise and rich tonality informed by a love for all from the Twilight Sad to FKA Twigs and Björk.
The Happy Days! EP - due July 31st via Distiller Records - is now available to pre-order on vinyl via Blood Records [pre-order here].
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