Red Lorry Yellow Lorry announce Final Album

Formed during the early eighties in Leeds, England, seminal post-punk band Red Lorry Yellow Lorry have just announced a label deal with COP International. The new signing will see the long-awaited release of what is expected to be the last ever Red Lorry Yellow Lorry album, Strange Kind of Paradise; along with further EP releases containing singles, b-sides, and remixes.

Red Lorry Yellow Lorry formed in 1981, named for an English children’s tongue-twister. Between 1982 and 1985, ‘the Lorries’, as they became known to fans, released a string of highly influential singles and EPs; followed by the albums Talk About the Weather (1985), Paint Your Wagon (1986), Nothing Wrong (1988) and Blow (1989). Throughout this period, nearly all of the band’s singles, EPs, and albums scaled the upper reaches of the NME’s UK independent charts.

Routinely touring the UK, Europe, and North America; at the height of their influence and creative output, the band’s signature sound was defined by founder and frontman Chris Reed’s cavernous, scowling vocals; the sonorous, droning, angular guitar textures of both Reed and longtime songwriting partner, Dave ‘Wolfie’ Wolfenden; coupled with grinding bass, and a near-industrial concoction of bludgeoning, neo-tribal live percussion and ice-cold mechanical drum-machines.