Heavy Soup, by DESERT SHIPS

Heavy Soup

by DESERT SHIPS

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1.	Watching The World Stop 03:16	buy track
2.	Fire On The Moon 02:43	buy track
3.	Heavy Soup 03:58	buy track
4.	Mosquito Blues 02:54	buy track
5.	Neon 03:27	buy track
6.	Moon Landing 03:19	buy track
7.	Pick Up Your Phone 04:10	buy track
8.	Losing Track Of Time 03:51	buy track

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Desert Ships, purveyors of a premier brand of psych-rock with an infections pop quality, return with new album ‘Heavy Soup’ on 28th April. With support from the likes of Cerys Matthews (6 Music) and John Kennedy’s X-Posure Show (Radio X) for the singles building to the release, it is set to light up the summer in rock ‘n’ roll haze.

The album was produced by vocalist/guitarist Mikey Buckley and recorded & mixed at his home studio, combining his experience as the chief live engineer at London’s Paper Dress Vintage and his production work with other bands, including the Steve Lamacq-championed Modern Guilt.

Desert Ships - completed by Daniel McLean (bass/synth) and Claude Trejonis (drums/vocals) - demonstrate once again the quality of their craft and an astute ear for entrancing arrangement. Mikey and Dan initially met at university, and spent a year in France together not attending class but cutting their teeth ‘Hamburg style’ playing concerts five nights a week as ‘The Dripping Baguettes’.

These lifelong friends blend garage rock, dream pop and neo-psychedelia to create their own sci-fi blues. In a career stretching over a decade, they have picked up a number of canny psych collaborators, including Ride’s Mark Gardener – who produced the band’s first two collections – as well as Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3) , Haydn Bendall (Kate Bush) and Alex Scannell (The Bees). Another key contributor to their work has been Jules Buckley, brother of frontman Mikey, who arranged ‘Melody Nelson era’ strings for the band’s album Eastern Flow between work with Quincy Jones, John Cale and Arctic Monkeys.

A recent and scintillating live session for Act Cool Records confirmed that “Desert Ships are a fantastic band that deliver groovy, hypnotic tunes” (Music Is To Blame).

Director Gil De Ray, known for his work with Little Barrie, imaginatively illustrated this with his accompanying video for the tracks 'Neon', 'Fire on the Moon', ‘Watching the World Stop' and 'Heavy Soup’.

Mastered by Tim Turan (Supergrass, Killing Joke), ‘Heavy Soup’ is available to stream/download across all digital platforms Friday 28th April 2023.

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released April 28, 2023

Written by Mikey Buckley, Daniel McLean and Claude Trejonis

Produced by Mikey Buckley

Mastered by Tim Turan

℗ & © 2023 DESERT SHIPS MUSIC. All rights reserved.

Sleeve design - Daniel Varns

Bookings: desertships@gmail.com

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