40 WATT SUN today premiered the first full track from their forthcoming album, Wider than the Sky. Beyond You is the second track on the album, which will be released via Radiance Records on October 14, 2016. Listen to Beyond You via: Metal Hammer UK
Commenting on the track, frontman, Patrick Walker, said:
"I don't find it easy to talk about my own music, and I'm not convinced I necessarily should, but I'm asked to say a few words about this song. It's about short-lived escape and sanctuary; of a deep sense of completion and of safety and well-being; and yet simultaneously feeling in those moments its impermanence and the pain of that; of trying to protract and even reserve that experience and that sense of love and life."
The track is taken from the once again self-produced album, Wider than the Sky; the new songs were recorded over five days at Giant Wafer Studios, isolated deep in the heart of the mid-Wales countryside. In a move intended to regain autonomy over their own recordings and future plans as a band, 40 WATT SUN have elected to self release the album via their own label, Radiance Records.
Eschewing the solidifying wall of sound that characterised their debut, 40 WATT SUN continue to progressively explore and broaden their sonic palette. As expected, Patrick’s lyrics, strung with aching introspection and pained nostalgia, hang on his characteristic and poignant vocals and delicate guitar lines, with Christian Leitch’s sensitive and nuanced drum-work, and William Spong’s thoughtful bass guitar gently revealing themselves in the folds of the songs.
Artwork for the release has been created by Rebecca Freeman, a Falmouth-based, mixed media artist.
40 WATT SUN will be playing live shows in support of the album release, the first of which as been announced:
15/10/2016 - UT Connewitz, Leipzig, DE
Wider than the Sky
- Stages (16:20)
- Beyond You (09:42)
- Another Room (11:56)
- Pictures (09:50)
- Craven Road (10:31)
- Marazion (03:56)
Pre-orders of Wider Than The Sky are available via 40 WATT SUN HERE, ahead of the scheduled release date, October 14. A 2LP vinyl edition of Wider than the Sky will also be released through Finland’s Svart Records.