Stealing Sheep have posted a lyric video for their Big Wows album track True Colours.
It arrives with news of a US tour centred around one of the band’s regular visits to SXSW, one which includes stops in the major cities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and beyond.
“Anyone who last caught Liverpudlian trio Stealing Sheep in about 2011 is in for something of a surprise; back then they were a sort of Pentangle vs. Let’s Eat Grandma mash up of folk, rudimentary electronica and Wicker Man vibes,” our Big Wows review opens. “By their last album Not Real, they’d ditched the tie-dye and replaced it with an ultra-modern sound which scoped to the future rather than the past.”
“More than three years in the making, for Big Wows the band – Emily Lansley on bass, Luciana Mercer (drums) and Becca Hawley (keyboards & programming) – revealed that they began each song by creating loops and beats rather than working organically, an approach they felt suited the more dystopian themes it contains. It’s a precision tooling they describe as a ‘slow rush’, but like many daytime dreams their world of millennial crises of confidence is submerged in a near impermeable, hubristic mask, one the tweaked pop hooks and neat symmetry of their music knowingly sees from many different angles.”
Tour dates:
March 2020
10 – Boston, MA, Great Scott
11-14 – New York, NY, New Colossus Festival
13 – Brooklyn, NY, Rough Trade
15 – Philadelphia, PA, Boot & Saddle
16 – Washington D.C., Pearl Street Warehouse
17-21 – Austin, TX, SXSW
23 – Los Angeles, CA, Bootleg Theater
26 – Seattle, WA, Sunset Tavern
27 – Portland, OR, Mississippi Studios
28 – Boise, ID, Treefort Music Festival
