Gift - Vinyle Rouge

Description

After a critically acclaimed first solo album in 2021, *Communication Problems*, Nick Wheeldon, the Parisian Englishman from Sheffield, returns with a second album, *Gift*. Over the past ten years, Nick Wheeldon has recorded nearly 20 albums with countless bands (The Jesus Loves Heroin Band, Os Noctàmbulos, The Necessary Separations, 39th & the Nortons, Nick & Alizon, Sex Sux, Nick Drunken Broken Arms & His False Ninga Dylan Cobb, Dômo Kômo etc.), each offering him a new opportunity to refine his Gene Clark and Alex Chilton-inspired sound - a sound that is both majestic and fragile, delicate and raw. His first solo album was recorded in his friends' bedrooms. *Gift* pushes the creative process further, embracing the idea of a collective painting where the song's form and format are never the same twice. *Gift* was recorded entirely live on an 8-track Tascam 388, during a 10-hour session. The band, Demon Hosts, had never played together before and only had four three-hour rehearsals to learn and arrange the songs. Time constraints became an asset in the creative process. *Gift* speaks of the fragility of love: what was once a medicine can become a poison if taken for granted. Under the watchful ear of Vincent Hivert (producer and 6th member of the band), the Demon Hosts add amazing color, shape, confidence, and experience to what is certainly Nick Wheeldon's best collection of songs. *Gift* and its hypersensitive lo-fi folk songs give us the feeling of entering Wheeldon's inner world. The album is released on Le Pop Club Records, delighted to collaborate once again with an artist who consistently proves himself to be one of the most important French musicians of our time, despite being English. Red vinyl edition.