Blog - Tag: Stephen Coates

RCRD LBL | The Real Tuesday Weld | Me and Mr Wolf

10 Jul 2011 - 16:33

The Last Werewolf by The Real Tuesday Weld

It’s probably the best dinner party music we’ve ever heard. With its whispered dialogue, orchestral turns, gleeful winds and strings, and mild electrobeats, The Real Tuesday Weld's "Me and Mr. Wolf" is a bridge from the generation who digs this kind of thing to the generation who’s never understood it. Count us now in the former, and keep your eyes peeled for The Last Werewolf, coming on Six Degrees, July 12.

Enter The Shell Review | The Real Tuesday Weld | Songs for The Last Werewolf

8 Jul 2011 - 16:19

Turning our sights from hit-makers and ground-shakers, this week we take a look at the formation of a new type of music that’s slowly making its way into our ear-holes. London-based The Real Tuesday Weld offers up their self-titled “antique-beat” style that’s mixing the likes of early 20th century jazz with electronic beats (it’s also called “electro-swing"). The band is set to release its 7th studio album, 'The Last Werewolf', on the 12th.
As Cyrus (the Warriors) and Booker T once asked: “can you dig it!?” Methinks yes.

CBS Radio’s “Street Date” | The Real Tuesday Weld | The Last Werewolf

8 Jul 2011 - 16:13

The Real Tuesday Weld is most commonly known for their song 'I Love The Rain' which is featured in Chevrolet car commercials. The band also have three songs featured on the videogame L.A. Noire. This public exposure to the band has given them renewed popularity in the music world.

The New York Daily's Jim Farber Review | The Real Tuesday Weld | The London Book of the Dead

8 Nov 2007 - 15:31

Take, for example, the songs of Stephen Coates, who records under the cinematic name The Real Tuesday Weld. Coates' work features snatches of dialogue, intrusions of sound effects and at least the hint of a plot... "When I write, I need a narrative to work with," he says, "pop songs about romantic love may be great but you exhaust that at some point and want to look for something more."

Pitchfork Review | The Real Tuesday Weld | The Return of The Clerkenwell Kid

13 Sep 2005 - 00:00

“Return revisits a baker's dozen of tracks from the Weld's 2001 debut, Where Psyche Meets Cupid, albeit with fresh recordings and a smattering of, ahem, real new material. Also recurring is Coates' self-described "antique beat" style, which in itself mingles the long-ago with the recent: Twenties and '30s music-hall and Tin Pan Alley (via "When I'm Sixty-Four", Village Green-preserving Kinks, or tourmate/fan Stephin Merritt of Magnetic Fields) with copious sampling and light, pastoral electronics of the Saint Etienne school.

Pitchfork Review | The Real Tuesday Weld | I, Lucifer

20 Apr 2004 - 00:00

With I, Lucifer, Coates, under nom-de-chanson (The Real) Tuesday Weld, draws the listener deep into a scratchy, sepia-toned fantasy that first suggests the gap between boozy, swinging ragtime, sophisticated lounge poetics, and innovative beat technique, then bridges it in one swooning swoop.

Antique Beat