O. – The London-based duo of baritone saxophonist Joe Henwood and drummer Tash Curry have announced their debut album, eccentric. Arrives June 21 via Speedy Wunderground. To accompany the announcement, they're sharing new single 'Green Shirt', which you can hear below.
“Green Shirt” is a “brief rock/metal rinse”, according to the band. “To match the distorted amp sounds coming from Joe, we put Tash's drums through distorted guitar amps on this rig. It's named after Tash's favorite green flannel shirt, which he lost several times and then got eaten by a dog.
Speaking about the LP, which features production by Dan Carey, they said: “eccentric is a dark and heavy album based on our love of squiggly bass lines, hard beats, overdubs, noise, and all the weird sounds in between. It was recorded live over two weeks in the studio with Dan Carey and aims to replicate the feeling of being at one of our gigs.”
“We're just two guys who are loud, and we're not afraid to give it our all when we play,” Henwood said. “We're interested in going to the limit – it's something that comes naturally to us.” Kerry added: “The name of the album was inspired by people coming up to us after shows and saying: ‘This sounds like geeky music.’ We listen to and listen to a lot of different styles of music, and it all flows naturally into our sound – we’re just expressing ourselves.
eccentric Cover artwork:
eccentric Song list:
1. Introduction
2. 176
3. TV dinner
4. Humming
5. Micro
6. Cosmo
7. The green shirt
8. The strike
9. Sugar fish
10. Slap juice
