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The debut record features guest vocals from BC Camplight and Emma Daman.
James Acaster's long-dormant band The Wow! Scenario have announced their debut album, 'Stand in the Star. A Verse and a Chorus', due for release on 23rd October via Bella Union, alongside its first single, 'Zacuti!'.
The project began in Kettering in 2004, when Acaster and longtime friend Graeme Wicks spent years chasing increasingly hostile audiences before calling it quits. After recording the album in 2007 with producer Chris Hamilton, they shelved it without releasing a note.
Over the next two decades, the pair repeatedly returned to the recordings, first replacing the original vocals with instrumental arrangements before eventually inviting BC Camplight and Emma Daman to sing the parts they'd always imagined.
The result is an album more than 20 years in the making. Hamilton mixed the record three separate times between 2008 and 2025, while Acaster and Wicks gradually reshaped the project until it finally matched the version they'd heard in their heads all along.
The album follows Acaster's 2023 collaborative project Temps.
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