W. H. Lung - Vanities

Released 12thNovember2021.

We were raring to go, says W. H. Lungs Tom Sharkett of the bands desire to keep the momentum going after the huge success of their debut album.2019s Incidental Music - a vivacious concoction of krautrock, synth pop and infectious grooves - topped end of year lists, with the likes of Piccadilly Records, Resident and ourselves here at SK all naming italbum of the year. However, it quickly became apparent that a repeat performance was of no interest to the band. At the beginning it felt like every new idea couldve just been onIncidental Music, remembers Tom. They werent bad ideas, but they didnt feel new. I dont think we knew where we wanted to go but we were 100% sure on it not being IncidentalMusic part 2.

Things soon burst to life however and a period of profound creativity, musical intuition, bold innovation and near total musical rebirth came forth. I was in the best place of my life, saysJoe Evans. I was like