WOLFFPACK

Description

The trio DeWolff had barely started their Tascam Tapes 2019 European tour when the COVID-19 pandemic broke out and they, like so many others, had to turn around and go home. They then started working on their new album Wolffpack, to which many of the band's acquaintances contributed. The album opens with a wild funk track tinged with psychedelic soul, "Yes You Do", featuring Ian Peres and longtime band friend Judy Blank. It was written during a Zoom meeting! "Treasure City Moonchild" struts with a funky, swirling Hammond organ sound, with Levis Vis from Dawn Brothers on bass. "Do Me" features Theo Lawrence on vocals. On the track "Sweet Loretta", we find Stefan Wolfs from Dawn Brothers and Diwa Meijman from Datelyn. Their touring buddies The Grand East join the party on "Roll Up the Rise". Written in the early days of quarantine, it's about the end of quarantine – told from a futuristic perspective. The track "Lady J" is based on a documentary: Lady Justice seems to have scales that don't measure the "weight" of your crime but the tone of your skin. She is supposed to be blindfolded, but in the end, she is not blind at all because she distinguishes between white and black. The album ends with the desperate "Hope Train", based on Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about two slaves in 19th-century America who try to free themselves from their plantation. On this track, the band used a 1970s Fisher-Price Toy cassette recorder in the intro to get closer to the sound of the very first country blues recordings, such as those of Blind Willie Johnson.