Crammed Discs Review | The Real Tuesday Weld | Songs for The Last Werewolf

Crammed Discs Label (Belgium)
The Real Tuesday Weld: Songs for The Last Werewolf
 

The new The Real Tuesday Weld album ‘Songs for the Last Werewolf’ will be released in the UK and throughout Europe from October 3rd by our friends Crammed Discs. The label is without doubt one of the coolest, sweetest and best independent labels left standing. We love ‘em.

The album which has already gained rave reviews in the US comes in a drop dead gorgeous bespoke twenty page artbook format with illustrations by our very own Catherine Anyango and writings by Glen Duncan author of The Last Werewolf. It is distributed in the UK by Proper and we will be offering signed editions, bundles with signed copies of the hardback or paper back and with Ms Za ZA ‘s limited edition werewolf brooch very soon

"What does an album mean anymore unless it has a narrative behind it?"

"The Real Tuesday Weld album 'Songs For The Last Werewolf' takes Glen Duncan's novel as the backdrop for a widescreen emotional cabaret tailor-made for the I tunes generation. For the album is both a high-concept soundtrack plus a diverse playlist for the eclectic of ear and heart, all held within the band's own genre 'Antique Beat'. The book's themes of violence, friendship, transformation, London, love and betrayal are recast as a suite of songs bound together by voices and readings from the text [...] As ever with an album by The Real Tuesday Weld, individual tracks cover a spectrum of styles from thirties ballads and torch songs through gypsy jazz and electro-swing to minimalist electronica. A range of influences including Gainsbourg, Chopin, Django Reinhardt, Cole Porter, Springsteen, Barry Adamson and Tom Waits hover ghostlike over the story as it unfolds. "

Read the full review here.