WOOM have released their new EP, ‘To Slow You’, via House Anxiety alongside a video for EP track ‘Welts’.
The South London ensemble are about to embark on their first UK headline tour, opening with a headline show at the ICA in London on 26th September before further dates across November and December.
The band say: “’Welts’ is about crushing, the intensity of intimacy, and the physical responses to it. Visualising the obsessive, overwhelming blush of a crush, the zoomed in experience, textures and intimate close ups of “imagined pleasure”.
“We wrote ‘Welts’ in the countryside during the heat of July. It wasn’t long after a hard winter of lockdown so the wild nature surrounding us felt heightened and visceral after being stuck in the city for so long. Gray came home with Welts on their legs after walking through fields of stinging nettles and grass and it led to imprints of scenery being infused into the feeling of the track. One evening, after a day of writing music we watched ‘A portrait of a Lady on Fire’ by Celine Sciamma. The very palpable and well depicted feeling of a crush and desire (that can’t survive) inspired the chorus – “I keep turning around, but you’re facing the ground”.
“‘Welts’ wants to sound like a clearing – embracing the friction and bumps of lust and romance with the company of bustling trees and swishing grass – but also taps into the reality of unrequited lust.”
The dates read:
SEPTEMBER
26 ICA, London, UK
NOVEMBER
28 St. Stephens Church, Ipswich, UK
DECEMBER
9 Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh, UK
11 NAC, Norwich, UK
14 Band On The Wall, Manchester, UK
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