the morning papers have given us the vapours, by the black watch

the morning papers have given us the vapours

by the black watch

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the black watch follow up 2023’s Future Strangers LP on Atom Records with their new album for Dell’Orso on Saturday 20th April 2024 (selected for Record Store Day and released on yellow vinyl). EDDA75

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1.	new brooms sweep clean 02:40	info	buy track
2.	sorry so far 04:26		buy track
3.	what's all this then 04:12		buy track
4.	almost words 03:18		buy track
5.	after all is sad, undone 03:14		buy track
6.	more lies from the government 04:18		buy track
7.	there & here 03:59		buy track
8.	in two different ways 03:02		buy track
9.	much of a muchness 03:31		buy track
10.	oh do shut up 03:50 video	info	buy track
11.	the morning papers 03:32		buy track

about

The Morning Papers Have Given Us the Vapours was made with the black watch bandmates and producers/engineers Rob Campanella (Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Tyde, The Warlocks) and Andy Creighton (The World Record, Parson Red Heads). Ben Eshbach, formerly of The Sugarplastic, arranged the strings. Kesha Rose guests on lead vocals on the second single, Oh Do Shut Up. And the great Lindsay Murray once again lends her beautiful backing vox to a number of tracks.

the black watch songwriter/frontman John Andrew Fredrick wrote the ten songs on this, his Los Angeles-based band's latest album, entirely unselfconsciously, with no set goal in mind other than to revel in the joy of songwriting, and, eventually, the luxury of recording his music with his more-than-accomplished band. The Morning Papers Have Given Us the Vapours, produced separately and together by Rob Campanella and Andy Creighton evinces the black watch's often stunning ability to, as Andy Gill once observed in The Independent, "find chaos in the calm, melody in the miasma."

For the new LP, the band recruited longtime friends and allies Ben Eshbach (the Emmy-Award-winning frontman of The Sugarplastic) and Lindsay Murray (Gretchens Wheel) to compose and arrange strings and sing heaps of lovely backing vocals, respectively.

And the result? A collection of songs that Fredrick, in his quite-but-not-quite self-deprecatory way, might call another set of brilliant failures. "Every song, every LP we do, is a failure of sorts--no matter how powerful or beautiful or pleasing-to-us it turns out," John concludes. "I have often said that my aim is to write songs as good as anything on The Beatles... and I will never achieve my goal. And thus I'll have to keep at it, keep trying. And chin-chin to that!"

And now your attention's been brought to a band (or you've heard of them or heard a track or two down the years) that has been pegged by The L.A. Weekly as "a national treasure" as well as "the most criminally-neglected indie pop group imaginable."

So here's to the prospect of that ostensible neglect becoming as much of a thing of the past as John Andrew Fredrick's year-long stint in bed.

credits

released May 4, 2024

John Andrew Fredrick--guitars, vocals, bass, percussion
Rob Campanella--bass, percussion
Andy Creighton--lead guitars, drums, bass
Andy Campanella--drums
Kesha Rose - vocals on 'oh do shut up'

produced & engineered by Rob Campanella & Andy Creighton
additional engineering: Kevin Dippold
'more lies' produced/ engineered by Misha Bullock
mastered by Scott Campbell

art direction & design: Ned Spires (with thanks to Bobby Klang)

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