New - The Black Watch - The Morning Papers Have Given Us The Vapours (RSD 2024) - LP

RSD 2024 indie exclusive. Official RSD UK Release. The Black Watch's follow-up to 2023's Future Strangers LP on Atom Records with their new album for Dell'Orso on Saturday 20th April, 2024 (selected for Record Store Day and released on yellow vinyl). The Morning Papers Have Given Us the Vapours was made with The Black Watch bandmates and producers/engineers Rob Campanella (Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Tyde, The Warlocks) and Andy Creighton (The World Record, Parson Red Heads). Ben Eshbach, formerly of The Sugarplastic, arranged the strings. Kesha Rose guests on lead vocals on the second single, "Oh Do Shut Up." And the great Lindsay Murray once again lends her beautiful backing vox to a number of tracks. The Black Watch songwriter/frontman John Andrew Fredrick wrote the ten songs on this, his Los Angeles-based band's latest album, entirely unselfconsciously, with no set goal in mind other than to revel in the joy of songwriting, and, eventually, the luxury of recording his music with his more-than-accomplished band. For the new LP, the band recruited longtime friends and allies Ben Eshbach and Lindsay Murray to compose and arrange strings and sing heaps of lovely backing vocals, respectively. And the result? A collection of songs that Fredrick, in his quite-but-not-quite self-deprecatory way, might call another set of brilliant failures. Here's to the prospect of that ostensible neglect becoming as much of a thing of the past as John Andrew Fredrick's year-long stint in bed.