**Announced** Sons of Bill announce date at Rescue Rooms Nottingham 19 August 2018

 

 

NEW ALBUM ‘OH GOD MA’AM’ OUT ON 29 JUNE 2018 ON LOOSE

HEAR FIRST SINGLE ‘BELIEVER/PRETENDER’ HERE

“music you’d describe as timeless were it not for the fear that that might be seen as faint praise” Sunday Times

“one of those delightful surprises that music so rarely springs in the age of digital access and instant discovery”The Guardian

“this is 2am-in-the-darkened-bar-of-your-dreams music writ large” Q

‘This is their moment” The Sun

“forceful Americana… gorgeous…. heavenly” 8/10 Uncut

“we’re thoroughly taken with these guys – one of the sweetest things we’ve heard all month” Classic Rock

“artful solemnity….gently aching” MOJO

“Exultant” The Independent

“The sound is lovely – felted, reverberant, country-blue” Independent on Sunday

“one of the most arresting bands I’ve heard in years.” Garden and Gun

Central Virginia’s band of brothers SONS OF BILL have announced the release of their new album ‘Oh God Ma’am’ on 29 June on Loose. 

The first single taken from the album, ‘Believer/Pretender’ is a “sort of a meditation on continuing to make music in adult life; especially in a superficial cultural and economic climate that continues to devalue the arts”. Lead singer James continues: “There is this Chinese finger trap you can get yourself into in adult life where you’re never quite sure which part of you is still genuine and which part of you has learned to fake it– which part of you plays music just for the love of it, and which part of you just desperately wants to be loved. Especially in an industry town like Nashville where it feels like posturing is half of being an artist.”
LISTEN TO ‘BELIEVER/PRETENDER’ – https://soundcloud.com/sonsofbill/believer-pretender-1

‘Oh God Ma’am’, the latest LP from is the band’s most coherent artistic statement to date– subtle, risky, and sonically ambitious.  Recorded both in Seattle with west coast indie legend Phil Ek (Shins, Fleet Foxes) and in Nashville with Sean Sullivan (Sturgill Simpson) and mixed by Peter Katis (The National, Interpol) the album shows the Wilson brothers moving beyond the galvanic americana-rock comfort zone of previous efforts, for a more elegant and restrained sound– a darker, and more complexly layered rock record that manages to be the band’s most emotionally intimate and sonically expansive.  Insistent, dancey rhythms and dreamy, hook-filled, pyrotechnics abound, creating a deceptively anthemic mood around songs that are in and of themselves intensely introverted.

‘Oh God Ma’am’ is a coming-of-age record for an over-stimulated age– equal parts post-adolescent anxiety and old-soul humility– literate, gorgeous, and darkly contemplative.
EUROPEAN TOUR DATES:

Tickets on sale 10am Wednesday 25th April
13 Aug – BRIGHTON The Hope (UK)

14 Aug – LONDON Omeara (UK)

15 Aug – BRISTOL Tunnels (UK)

16 Aug – LEEDS Brudenell (UK)

17 Aug – GLASGOW Broadcast (UK)

18 Aug – MANCHESTER Soup Kitchen (UK)

19 Aug – NOTTINGHAM Rescue Rooms (UK)

21 Aug – COLOGNE Blue Shell (DE)

22 Aug – MUNICH Milia Club (DE)

23 Aug – BERLIN Musik & Frieden (DE)

24 Aug – HAMBURG Stage Club (DE)

25 Aug – ONCE IN A BLUE MOON FESTIVAL Amsterdam (NL)

 

PRE-ORDER ‘OH GOD MA’AM’ HERE: http://smarturl.it/sonsofbill

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