Forthcoming: Wax Witches
News posted Monday, January 14 2013 at 09:00 AM.
Related: Wax Witches.
What: Celebrity Beatings by Wax Witches.
When: February 8 through Jerko/MGM.
Key notes: Debut album from Wax Witches, solo project of Bleeding Knees Club frontman Alex Wall. Coming out on CD and digital via new Sydney label Jerko (Step-Panther), with cassette coming from LA label Burger Records (Thee Oh Sees, King Tuff, OFF!). Recording during downtime from BKC over the past year, “as a way to keep boredom at bay and record off-the-cuff at home.” Wall played nearly every instrument and recorded and mixed all 16 songs at his Gold Coast home before being mastered by Straight Arrows’ Owen Penglis. Follows recent singles ‘Help Me Out’ and ‘Santa Forgot Me’. Includes the “a faithfully pissed-off” Black Flag cover ‘Nervous Breakdown’ and the single ‘Alone’ (stream below). Supporting Thee Oh Sees at the Great Northern in Byron Bay on February 13, with launches in Melbourne and Sydney planned for mid-March.
From the presser: “Fans of Bleeding Knees Club will find much to love here – if possible, Wax Witches is even more snotty, frantic, dumb, lo-fi and badass than the songs on Nothing To Do. Its brat-blast noise-pop and gonzo garage-rock channels Wall’s professed love of California punk and psych culture, from The Descendents through to Ty Segall.”
Tracklisting:
Spit On Me
Alone
I Hate Your Guts
Liquid Handcuffs
Friendzone
Nervous Breakdown
LZD
Teenager Hopeless
Everytime I Try
I Hate Matilda
Panic 666
Punk Is For Gays
Nightmares
Fuck The Drive Thru
Ballad Of A Lozer
Shit Day
Wax Witches - "Alone" by Jerko ۵
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Is that cover art by Raymond Pettibon?
I'm guessing it's an imitation, but I could be wrong.
I'm willing to bet 50 bux that it's an Andy Lang drawing.
i think this young flog has done it himself, the quality is far poorer than either artist
I highly doubt it's a Pettibon, imitation fo' sure