Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall’s The WAEVE have announced their new album ‘City Lights’. Check out details below along with new single ‘You Saw’.
The new project will come over a year after the acclaimed eponymous debut album from the Blur guitarist and Pipettes singer and comes previewed by new single ‘You Saw’ – which has the same sultry, melodic yet bold sound as their previous tracks.
“‘You Saw’ is a song about acknowledging how seemingly tiny decisions can have a seismic impact on the course of one’s life, how sometimes it feels like the way things turn out are predestined,” they said.
“It’s about reconciling a past version with the new version of one’s self and being grateful for how things work out. It’s built around a rhythmic string line to reflect the sense of propulsive forward motion.”
Last month the pair released the first single from the album, also titled ‘City Lights’, which carries the same bold yet steamy sound of their previous album.
The album ‘City Lights’ – due for release on September 20 via Transgressive Records – will be a 10-track collection which chronicles their musical progression as a pairing, exploring new themes and ideas while solidifying their bold angst.
The tracklisting for ‘City Lights’ is:
‘City Lights’
‘You Saw’
‘Moth To The Flame’
‘I Belong To…’
‘Simple Days’
‘Broken Boys’
‘Song For Eliza May’
‘Druantia’
‘Girl of the Endless Night’
‘Sunrise’
The album has been produced by both Coxon and Dougall, on vocals, keyboard, guitar, bass guitar, drums and saxophone. ‘The WAEVE’ collaborator James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Florence & The Machine, Foals, HAIM) is also a producer on the upcoming project.
Available to pre-order now, ‘City Lights’ will be released on 2LP housed in a gatefold sleeve, pressed on black vinyl, orange vinyl (exclusive to independent vinyl sellers) and limited edition red vinyl (exclusive to Rough Trade). It will also be available on CD and digitally.
To celebrate the release of ‘City Lights’, the pair will perform three shows at Rough Trade Liverpool in September ahead of their biggest headline show to date at Village Underground in London the following October.
Check out their full upcoming tour dates below, and see here for tickets and more information.
The WAEVE’s upcoming tour dates are:
JUNE
30 – Bristol Sounds (supporting The Breeders)
JULY
21 – Warwick Castle (supporting Noel Gallagher)
25 – Latitude Festival
AUGUST
17 – Green Man Festival
SEPTEMBER
20 – Rough Trade Liverpool
21 – Rough Trade Nottingham
23 – Rough Trade Bristol
OCTOBER
29 – Village Underground, London
The pair came together after exchanging messages during the lockdown Christmas of 2020. Speaking to NME in 2022 about their then-unannounced debut album, Coxon said: “We came up with the idea of how we could forge forward through life.
“Do we actually write some music, do something completely different, and out of our comfort zone, or just give the whole bloody thing up and forget about it, generally – life, music and all the rest of it.”
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