Going, Going…

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Ninth studio album from UK indie darlings tells the story of a road trip across the USA, revealed across a collection of twenty ‘linked’ songs, each with anaccompanying short film. As Gedge points out, work began soon after the 2012 album ‘Valentina’. “I’d already decided by then that I didn’t want to make thenext release just ‘another album’ and so I came up with the idea of twenty ‘interconnected’ pieces of music. In the summer 2014 I travelled across the USAwith photographer Jessica McMillan and we made some atmospheric short films to accompany the tracks. Since then it’s been a case of progressing throughthe music, trying all sorts of ideas, seeing how they work set against the visuals.”. Uncharacteristically, the album opens with four hauntingly beautifulinstrumental songs, including the cinematic ‘Sprague’ and the captivating ‘Marblehead’. ‘Going, Going...’ then takes a headlong dash through tracks such as‘Two Bridges’, ‘Birdsnest’, ‘Kill Devil Hills’ and ‘Broken Bow’... all perfectly executed in classic Wedding Present fashion; a jangle of clanging guitars, a squealof feedback and a rush of adrenaline.The films that accompany each track are a mesmerising collection of moving photographs. The rippling water in ‘Marblehead’ delicately draws us into themelody while ‘Two Bridges’ takes us onto a Manhattan street corner and exudes New York City in the summertime. The feeling of a road trip is presentthroughout as we see the rivers and lakes of the Mid-West and the deserts of the South-West before the album ends in a beautifully fitting way with the sunsetting over the Santa Monica mountains.

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