The current iteration of World Sanguine Report—which consists of Andrew Plummer, Matthew Bourne, Ruth Goller, and Will Glaser—is ready to bring you an avant-rock album in the vein of Tom Waits or Nick Cave in that it’s sung as if by someone who’s been beaten up by life. The new album, Songs From the Harbour, is due out on April 25 from God Unknown Records, but you can hear it right here and right now.
“This is the album I’ve wanted to make for more than 20 years,” explains Plummer, “though the timing never felt quite right until now.
“With Songs From The Harbour, I wanted to move away from the overtly theatrical approach of earlier albums, focusing instead on creating music that both the band and audiences could connect with and experience in a more immediate and direct way,” he continues. “Previous complexities were set aside to create space for interpretation, time-feel, and interaction—guided by and laying bare our words and voices. By stripping songs back to their barest forms, together we developed music that is honest, full of vibe and intention—dynamic and fluid, nuanced and deliberate, ignited with a sense of yearning and wildness.
“Aquatic themes frequently reoccured, as if everything was drawing us to the river and ocean. We auspiciously recorded the majority of the album aboard the Lightship 95 Studios on the Thames. We recorded together in one room, adamant in keeping it to just two takes per song. Once we had chosen the take, Ruth and I would lay down two vocal takes and that would be that—unadulterated, a showing, a viewing…
“The ship moved us, the ship moved with us. The Thames lapped at the boat, its tides washing in the Lightship’s echo chamber, housed in the hull of the ship, made its way into the recordings. Water has a way to find its way into everything, it seeks its own level. This iteration of WSR is, without doubt, the most intoxicating creative partnership I’ve ever been part of.”
Check out the album below.
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