The Wedding Present will release their new album ‘Going, Going…’ in three audio-visual formats – standard CD/DVD, deluxe CD/DVD in hard-bound ‘book pack’ with extra tracks and lyrics, and deluxe double 180g LP/DVD with extra tracks and lyrics – on September 2nd.
“I’d already decided by then that I didn’t want to make the next release just ‘another album’ and so I came up with the idea of twenty ‘interconnected’ pieces of music,” David Gedge says of his immediate plans after 2012’s ‘Valentina’.
“Then, in the summer of 2014 I travelled across the USA with photographer Jessica McMillan and we made some atmospheric short films to accompany the tracks. Since then it’s been a case of progressing through the music, trying all sorts of ideas, seeing how they work set against the visuals.”
Lead single ‘Bear‘ is available to stream now as the band also prepares for UK tour dates in September, October and November, opening at the Cardiff Tramshed.