Edinburgh’s Wozniak will launch their debut single with what promises to be a powerful performance at Sneaky Pete’s on 1 November.
The four piece formed in 2012 on a mission to cause terminal tinnitus with their brooding (largely) instrumental cocktail of feedback, reverb and delay, distorted bass tones and pounding drum beats. Already their live sets are gaining a reputation for being ‘brutal, in a good way’.
This is definitely deliberate as James, John, Sarah and Simon explain:- “Loud – think jet engines, hurricanes, dinosaurs, blackholes. It’s all pummelling drums, driving bass, swamps of delay and reverb and ear-busting feedback too.”
Citing influences from shoegaze, post rock, hard rock and no wave, 70s public information films, 80s Japanese cartoons and the odd tartan shirt, they have already been dubbed part of an Edinburgh shoegaze revival by respected blog Song, By Toad.
Their first release comes just weeks after the band headlined a stage at Edinburgh’s popular Haddowfest. The double A-sided single was recorded at The Depot in Edinburgh under the expert guidance of Craig Ross of Broken Records and the band say it gives a sample of Wozniak at their most moody.
MFMB is a real goosebumper of a track, taking its cues from the band’s heavier influences. A musical Cold War spy thriller, the spacey guitars and uncompromising rhythm section build towards a deadly conclusion.
New Hampshire insists that you ‘live free or die’ with tribal drums, whacked out phaser, reverb so deep it could come from the bottom of the Atlantic and icy chills thanks to an atmospheric (and rare) vocal.
The single has been played on California’s Decay FM and Amazing Radio. It is available on CD at the gig, or for download at www.wozniak.bandcamp.com
For the launch gig, Wozniak will be joined by Edinburgh post-rockers We Came From the North who are fresh from their tour with Stutter and up and coming Dundonian band, Vladimir.
WOZNIAK SINGLE LAUNCH – 1 NOVEMBER, 7 – 10PM, SNEAKY PETE’S, EDINBURGH. ENTRY £5, INCLUDING SINGLE.
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