The Wave Pictures Take Things Back To Basics With New Album

The Wave Pictures are currently preparing for the release of their new album ‘Long Black Cars’ via Moshi Moshi next week. The band’s fourth full length will be released on 2nd April 2012.

Speaking to DIY, frontman Dave Tattersall revealed that it was important to the band to take things back to basics with this record.

‘We could pretty much only afford four days, so we just had to trust our friends,’ Tattersall begins. ‘We’d never met the guy until the day of recording, and we’d never seen the studio – but he was great, and so nice.

‘We wanted to record the drums with one microphone, like they did in the 60’s, and he was cool with that. A lot of things that normally engineers wouldn’t necessarily be happy with, he would try and experiment with it all. It was very easy and relaxing – up until the last day when we suddenly realised we were in a rush and started panicking a bit!’

The record process differed quite a bit for the band this time around too. ‘Before we might’ve written 30 songs and picked the best 12. For this album we only went in with 14 songs, and we only left two off the album,’ he explains. ‘It sounds a little bit tighter and cleaner than ‘Beer In The Breakers’ because of that, a little bit punchier sounding. We took the files back home and Franic and I mixed it all ourselves on Franic’s computer, which is something we’d never done before.’

Don’t worry though, this album sees the band taking full control of the record, achieving just what they wanted with the final outcome. ‘‘Long Black Cars’ sounds exactly like we want it to sound; whereas all the other things we’ve done are the result of somebody else mixing, or a lot of other people contributing.’

Read El Hunt’s full interview online later this week.