Circa Waves - Wake Up

Peer behind the scenes of Circa Waves’ first chapter, and you’d imagine it to be like being swept up in the eye of a storm. Just when indie’s heyday is declared long gone, the Liverpool bunch have been selling out arenas across the country, like it’s no big deal.

‘Wake Up’, the first taste of a hot-on-its-toes second album, captures that momentum first-hand. Driven guitar lines surge forwards from the off, and not once do Kieran Shudall and co. take their foot off the pedal. As with their first steps, they’re not out to reinvent the wheel. But this is far from a traditional box-ticker. ‘Wake Up’ captures the frenzied live environment Circa Waves find themselves caught up in, and then some.