Imperial Wax announce new album ‘Tranquiliser’

IMPERIAL WAX have announced a new album!

Titled Tranquiliser, the upcoming album from the garage rock/post-punk band is the follow-up to their 2019 debut Gastwerk Saboteurs and is scheduled to be released in February next year via Guesswork Records. The album was recorded by Tom Goodhall and mastered by Ross Haiden at HOHM Studios in Bradford.

Alongside the announcement of the album, the band have released a music video for its lead single Less I Need.

Speaking about the track, guitarist and vocalist Sam Curran comments, “Less I Need was the first song written for the new album. The initial intention for the song was to simplify our writing format and concentrate more on one solid foundational groove and build upon that, rather than overloading the song with different parts, which in the end evidently went out the window. It was (drummer) Keiron’s idea to constantly change keys, which worked really well. It gave the song much more drive and purpose. The key changes were not planned out and probably technically incorrect to a trained musical ear. Wherever the hand landed on the guitar neck was where the key change went, which helped create that jarring unpredictable nature to the song.”

“The actual chorus and eventual title of the song came as a total accident,” adds Curran. “I couldn’t come up anything good for the chorus, so while playing song with the band I just sang gobbledygook whenever it got to that part. That gobbledygook eventually refined itself and started sounding like words but was never anything proper. When recording the demos and listening back someone asked ‘what do you say during the chorus? Is it less I need?’ I said, It is now.”

Watch the official video for Less I Need here:

You can view the artwork for the upcoming album below.

Tranquiliser is set for release on February 9th via Guesswork Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.

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