"slap me on the heart and tell me how to do it right..."
Cardiff based Midding (formerly Clwb Fuzz) are a trip. I mean on their new track "Figurehead" they cast sonic imagery by shape shifting and gleefully colliding a sort of sludge pop, meets Gothic rock, meets dark folk meets alt punk / alt rock shapes into a crunchy, darkly dreamy powder keg of sounds. Not only that, in the wonderfully odd official video two of the band mates are sporting A. a Gibson Flying V and (what appears to be) B. a 12 string Vox Phantom XII! This gives me immense joy but then I am a weirdo (but not a creep).
On "Figurehead" I cannot pinpoint all of the lyrics because of the sort of hazy nature of the production but what I can decipher feels beautifully interesting. For me the song plays like a sort of Gothic spaghetti western surf punk 60's deconstructed psychedelic folk song on acid. That is the best description I can come up with and I (for some reason) thought of the Velvet Underground, Mazzy Star, X and the Butthole Surfers or an amalgam of all in a blender. Love this.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.facebook.com/middingband
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ygFMTYbjRJIxRu9fjoeJT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUbHcn_lYlc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUbHcn_lYlc
https://twitter.com/midding_band
Cardiff-based five-piece Clwb Fuzz have changed their name to Midding – and ‘Figurehead’ is one half of their new double A-side single, their first release under the new moniker, out on May 27.
It’s a ferocious slab of shadowy psych, somewhere between The Horrors and Savages which, according to singer and bassist Emily Kocan, is about “absolutely nothing”.
“While writing it I was reading Welsh poetry in a manic state and decided to translate it into Greek then translate it into English,” she explains. “Nothing made sense, so I filled it out and this is what came about. It only really reflects my manic state hobbies.”
The band’s name-change came about for a number of reasons, but mainly because they didn’t want to be stuck with a name they chose fairly randomly when they were younger.
“We’ve all matured (a bit) since and just wanted a fresh start,” explains singer & guitarist Joe Woodward. “We will still be the same band, just in a different body. It’s like Clwb Fuzz was a caterpillar and now Midding is us transforming into some weird fucked up butterfly, with a slight hangover and bags under its eyes.”
We get by with a little help from our friends
Midding, formerly Clwb Fuzz, Cardiff UK based, alt rock, post punk, psychedelic punk, art punk, gothic punk, "Figurehead",
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.facebook.com/middingband
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ygFMTYbjRJIxRu9fjoeJT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUbHcn_lYlc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUbHcn_lYlc
https://twitter.com/midding_band
Cardiff-based five-piece Clwb Fuzz have changed their name to Midding – and ‘Figurehead’ is one half of their new double A-side single, their first release under the new moniker, out on May 27.
It’s a ferocious slab of shadowy psych, somewhere between The Horrors and Savages which, according to singer and bassist Emily Kocan, is about “absolutely nothing”.
“While writing it I was reading Welsh poetry in a manic state and decided to translate it into Greek then translate it into English,” she explains. “Nothing made sense, so I filled it out and this is what came about. It only really reflects my manic state hobbies.”
The band’s name-change came about for a number of reasons, but mainly because they didn’t want to be stuck with a name they chose fairly randomly when they were younger.
“We’ve all matured (a bit) since and just wanted a fresh start,” explains singer & guitarist Joe Woodward. “We will still be the same band, just in a different body. It’s like Clwb Fuzz was a caterpillar and now Midding is us transforming into some weird fucked up butterfly, with a slight hangover and bags under its eyes.”
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We get by with a little help from our friends
Midding, formerly Clwb Fuzz, Cardiff UK based, alt rock, post punk, psychedelic punk, art punk, gothic punk, "Figurehead",
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