‘Heavy Soup’ by Desert Ships | Album Premiere
Exclusive album premiere of ‘Heavy Soup’ by Desert Ships, out April 28th.
The album was produced by vocalist/guitarist Mikey Buckley and recorded and mixed at his home studio, combining his experience as the chief live engineer at London’s Paper Dress Vintage and his production work with other bands, including the Steve Lamacq-championed Modern Guilt.
Desert Ships – completed by Daniel McLean (bass/synth) and Claude Trejonis (drums/vocals) – demonstrate once again the quality of their craft and an astute ear for entrancing arrangement. Mikey and Dan initially met at university, and spent a year in France together not attending class but cutting their teeth “Hamburg style” playing concerts five nights a week as The Dripping Baguettes.
These lifelong friends blend garage rock, dream pop and neo-psychedelia to create their own sci-fi blues.In a career stretching over a decade, they have picked up a number of canny psych collaborators, including Ride’s Mark Gardener – who produced the band’s first two collections – as well as Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3), Haydn Bendall (Kate Bush) and Alex Scannell (The Bees). Another key contributor to their work has been Jules Buckley, brother of frontman Mikey, who arranged “Melody Nelson era” strings for the band’s album ‘Eastern Flowbetween’ work with Quincy Jones, John Cale and Arctic Monkeys.
Mastered by Tim Turan (Supergrass, Killing Joke), ‘Heavy Soup’ is available to stream/download across all digital platforms Friday 28th April 2023.
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