LONDON, UK (Top40 Charts/ Cooperative Music) With anticipation mounting around the release of their long-awaited debut Into The Diamond Sun, STEALING SHEEP have just announced a London album launch show next month at Madame JoJo's… Date/info below… Scroll down the email for a full list of the band's upcoming live schedule which includes newly added festival appearances.
Tuesday 21 August - LONDON - White Heat @ Madame JoJo's (£6)
Stealing Sheep have also just unveiled a dazzling DIY video to new single 'Genevieve', one of the album's many stand-out tracks.. Click on the link or stills below to check it out!
Upcoming Stealing Sheep live info:
Saturday 4 August - HERTFORDSHIRE - Standon Calling
Wednesday 8 August - LONDON - Rough Trade East (In-store album launch)
Friday 10 August - LYMINGTON - Kneedeep Festival
Friday 17 August - GLANUSK - Greenman Festival
Sunday 19 August - EDINBURGH - Sneaky Pete's (Edinburgh festival show)
Tuesday 21 August - LONDON - White Heat @ Madame JoJo's (£6)
Saturday 1 September - KENT - In The Woods Festival
Saturday 8 September - ISLE OF WIGHT - Bestival
Saturday 15 September - PORTMERION - Festival No.6
What's in the water up on Merseyside? It's as if there's an endless source of almost psychedelic otherness running deep beneath the place. It's there in the music of everyone from the La's to Ladytron; an off-kilter wonder that sets the place and its art apart from the rest of the country.
Stealing Sheep are very much a group channelling that source. You could hear it in their first recordings, released collectively as the Noah & The Paper Moon e.p. And its there flowing throughout their debut album proper, Into The Diamond Sun, a collection of songs that don't so much defy genres as gleefully hand-pick the most mellifluous elements of everything from voodoo folk, DIY pop, post punk and analogue electronica, and stitch them together into a glorious harmonic whole.
Recorded at Mello Studios with Sam Crombie, Stealing Sheep's debut album proper is an Olympian leap forward, so much so that at points the record sounds like it's arrived from its own private universe. Whereas on one track - White Lies - the group could be the much-missed Broadcast closing the main stage of the Green Man festival, on another they sound not a million miles from a properly wigged out Go Go's (Genevieve). Elsewhere, ghostly piano codas (Bear Tracks) brush up against galeophobic warnings about the perils of the seaside (Shark Song).
Into the Diamond Sun is a glimmering, shimmering work, where Rebecca, Emily and Lucy's unique visions of music warp into a singular whole. It's also an exceptional addition to Liverpool's celebrated lineage of unconventional art and music.
