Spector share new single 'Funny Way Of Showing It', co-written with The Magic Gang's Jack Kaye

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Spector have shared new single 'Funny Way Of Showing It', listen below.

'Funny Way Of Showing It' comes in the wake of the band returning with the mammoth 'Catch You On The Way Back In' last month, alongside announcing Now Or Whenever, their first official studio album in six years.

Now Or Whenever is the long awaited third full length release from the cult band. The album follows the critically acclaimed Enjoy It While It Lasts (2012), Moth Boys (2015) and EP compilation Non-Fiction (2020), records which built a culture around the group and accrued them a fiercely loyal fan base, making Spector one of Britain's most-loved alternative outfits.

Where CYOWTBI saw Spector at their most visceral and urgent, 'Funny Way Of Showing It' exudes a slightly more psychedelic slacker feel, rearranging the band's emotionally resonant, indie rock hallmarks into a hazy mid-summer earworm. Co-written with The Magic Gang's Jack Kaye, 'Funny Way Of Showing It' captures the laidback interplay of Jed Cullen's guitar playing and Fred Macpherson's freshly tempered vocals, a theme that runs across the album, with rhythmic instrumentation and blissed out harmonies throughout. "You've been looking for a mint condition first edition / You've been looking for the real deal" sings Fred. "You've been looking for a bit of fervour, look no further / Maybe you just want to feel".

Now Or Whenever is out October 1st on the band's own label Moth Noise, the full tracklist can be found below, alongside the dates for the band's UK headline tour, for which tickets are on sale now.

'Funny Way Of Showing It' is available to stream here.

More info on Now Or Whenever

Following the success of their 2019 tour and singles compilation Non-Fiction, Spector started work on Now or Whenever in the Spring of 2020. With band members locked down in different cities and countries, the core duo of Fred Macpherson and Jed Cullen opted for a more collaborative process than usual, working with friends and contemporaries both online and in the flesh where possible. An improvisatory approach to music and lyrics was encouraged, and in the absence of gigs the songs took on the idea of a theoretical concert of new material, delivered in the spirit of their impassioned live shows. The final songs were recorded in January 2021 at Coastal Sound, Liverpool by Rich Turvey (Blossoms, The Coral) who emphasised performances over production and heavier, stripped down arrangements.

Inspired by the vocal stylings and layered harmonies of British folk rock (Strawbs, Steeleye Span), the drunken riffs of American eighties alternative (The Replacements, Husker Dü) and raucous energy of Antipodean pub rock (Th’ Dudes, The Radiators), Now or Whenever is the sound of Spector at their irreverent best. Lyrics explore themes of time, memory, hope, the near future, cars and emotionally repressed adult friendships, but a sense of positivity shines through the fatalistic musings the band have become synonymous with.

It’s their first album with live instrumentation throughout, with drums recorded straight to decaying, thirty year old tape by Nicolas Py, the French cornerstone of Spector’s touring party for the last four years. Jed Cullen’s guitar also bursts into the foreground, experimenting with alternate tunings, drones and equipment left orphaned at the studio by the likes of Clinic and Chris De Burg.

“In some ways this is our first proper guitar album” explains Fred. “And the first album we’ve made in one studio in one sitting which is crazy. Next year will be the tenth anniversary of Enjoy It While It Lasts which feels like forever, but I think it’s taken us that long to work out what’s good about us and how to capture it. Which kind of makes Now or Whenever both a sequel and a reboot. Had last year unfolded differently, maybe this would be our big depressing opus, but when positivity’s taken away you have to create your own, and somehow that’s left us with our most upbeat record yet.”

“When there are huge changes happening on a global level and absolutely nothing happening on a local level, people ask you how you’ve been, what you’ve been up to etc. and there’s not much to say that they don’t already know” adds Jed. “So we start talking and writing about the past and the future as if to escape from this paradoxically mundane/extreme present. Then you step back and you realise that the strange conditions of the time are pervading your conversations and it’s coming out in the music in ways you didn’t expect.”

July 14, 2021 4:00am ET by Pressparty  

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