Announce Brand New Album The Warping due out June 14 via Lucky Number
The Warping LP pre-order
“You Make Me Feel So Dumb” Single + Video
Supporting OMD in UK + North America
Tour dates + tickets below and here
Photo credit: Izzy Leach
Glasgow’s post punk queer quintet Walt Disco today announce their second album The Warping, out June 14 via Lucky Number. Following their acclaimed January teaser track “Pearl”, the charming group is also thrilled to share cynical disco banger “You Make Me Feel So Dumb”. Inspired by the social burnout suffered from networking while on tour, it arrives alongside a tongue-in-cheek video that sees the band tearing up a stuffy corporate mixer event.
Watch / Share “You Make Me Feel So Dumb”
Upon their first stint in the US, the Glasgow 5-piece were hailed as BrooklynVegan, Austin Chronicle and Rolling Stone’s ‘best bands of SXSW’ followed by additional performances at Glastonbury, Latitude, Austin City Limits as well as supporting HMLTD and Nation of Language. Currently on an extensive European and UK tour in support of OMD, Walt Disco will reunite with the electronic pop pioneers for another lengthy support tour across North America this Fall with stops in NYC, Los Angeles, Boston, DC, Seattle, Portland, Denver and more. Catch the band live at summer festivals including Mighty Hoopla and stay tuned for many more headline and festival shows to be announced soon.
Written on both sides of the Atlantic, from Los Angeles and Austin to Glasgow and London, The Warping is a significant step forward for the band. Deeply personal, deft lyricism examines feelings of envy, fear, joy and hope. Yearning for another self is a recurring dream on The Warping, as they explore gender dysphoria and envy with radical honesty, accepting them as two tangled threads in the same experience. Taking the cinematic glam of their debut to a new peak, the band brought in classically trained horns, woodwind and swelling string sections lending a fantastically organic and technically accomplished new level to the Walt Disco sound. While the foundations were laid during pre-album recording sessions at Phil Manzanera of Roxy Music’s studio the songs themselves largely come together in collaboration. The Warping was co-produced by the band and Chris McCrory, with engineering from The Vale studios’ Chris D’Adda, and the instrumentation is almost entirely analogue.
The band shares, “With ‘The Warping’ we explore themes of change, growth and dealing with the complex struggles that feature in anyone’s life. It feels like our most biographical body of work yet, listening to it now is like looking at a snapshot of a moment in time for us as people and as a band.” They continue, “This album is a roadmap of our vulnerabilities in a way, but it feels good to be so honest with our music and lay everything on the table with both our lyrics and arrangements. That acceptance of one’s emotions and honesty with oneself is what we’d hope people can take away from listening to ‘The Warping’.”
Walt Disco also ticked off some bucket list moments; be it opening for both Simple Minds and Duran Duran, as well as Primal Scream’s Screamadelica Tour, or Tilda Swinton calling them her favourite new band. The band’s singer Jocelyn Si narrated the short film Christopher at Sea, about queer identity and self-discovery, which showcased at the Venice Film Festival and Cannes. The band also featured within a Christian Louboutin campaign that sought to challenge the gender binary applied to clothing and footwear as well as performing in Paris at the Louboutin event for Paris Fashion Week.
The Warping tracklist:
1. Seed
2. Gnomes
3. Come Undone
4. The Warping
5. You Make Me Feel So Dumb
6. Pearl
7. Black Chocolate
8. Jocelyn
9. The Captain
10. Weeping Willow
11. I Will Travel
12. Before The Walls
Walt Disco Tour Dates
UK
3/12: Leicester, UK @ De Montfort Hall
3/13: Nottingham, UK @ Royal Concert Hall
3/15: Wolverhampton, UK @ Wolverhampton Civic Hall
3/16: Swansea, UK @ Swansea Arena
3/17: Southend on Sea, UK @ Southend Cliffs Pavilion
3/19: Bristol, UK @ Bristol Beacon
3/20: Oxford, UK @ New Theatre
3/22: Portsmouth, UK @ Guildhall
3/23: Ipswich, UK @ Regent Theatre
3/26: Brighton, UK @ Brighton Dome
3/27: Eastbourne, UK @ Winter Gardens
US
9/11: Vancouver BC @ Orpheum
9/12: Seattle WA @ Moore Theatre
9/13: Portland OR @ Roseland Theater
9/15: Oakland CA @ Fox Theater
9/17: Las Vegas NV @ House of Blues
9/19: Los Angeles CA @ Greek Theatre
9/20: Los Angeles CA @ Greek Theatre
9/21: San Diego CA @ Balboa Theatre
9/24: Salt Lake City UT @ Union Events Center
9/25: Denver CO @ Paramount Theatre
9/27: Dallas TX @ Majestic Theater
9/28: Austin TX @ The Moody Theater @ ACL Live
9/29: Houston TX @ Bayou Music Center
10/4: Minneapolis MN @ First Avenue
10/5: Chicago IL @ Riviera Theatre
10/6: Royal Oak MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre
10/8: Toronto ON @ History
10/9: Cleveland OH @ House of Blues
10/10: New York NY @ Terminal 5
10/12: Huntington NY @ The Paramount
10/13: Boston MA @ House of Blues
10/15: Glenside PA @ Keswick Theatre
10/16: Washington DC @ Lincoln Theatre
10/18: Atlanta GA @ Buckhead Theater
10/19: Orlando FL @ The Plaza Live
10/20: St Petersburg FL @ Jannus Live
Festivals
5/20: Leipzig, Germany @ Wave Gotik Treffen
6/1: Leeds, UK @ This Must Be The Place All Dayer
6/2: London, UK @ Mighty Hoopla
6/9 + 6/10: Christiania, Copenhagen, Denmark @ Frigjort Festival
