We’ve covered the work of Louisville, Kentucky outfit Wombo since last year’s Situations, drawn in by their ability to evolve the post punk genre with psych and pop influences. Back in March we wrote about the single ‘Below the House‘, a song inspired by nightmares which sounded like “some liminal space between waking and dreaming,” as we put it, “where nothing is quite what it seems.” The track turned out to be the first from a brand new album Fairy Rust, out later this summer on Fire Talk Records, a collection of songs which explores the contemporary preoccupation with the unreal. “The spaces in-between,” as the album notes put it. “A meeting of the physicality of the land with the fluidity of the imagination, to uncanny effect.”
Wombo have now shared another single, ‘Backflip’ to further reveal what we can expect from the new record. A song inspired by something the grandmother of lead Sydney Chadwick said while driving along the freeway. “We’re all just gonna meet ourselves at the end of this, aren’t we?” The band excavate the full weirdness of the idea with a taut and anxious rhythm, recreating a kind of dream logic where every road leads back to its origin and reality evaporates within the trip.
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The song comes complete with a video directed by Wombo’s own Cameron Lowe. “It’s about being stuck in a loop, continuously running back into yourself,” the band explain. “The video ties into ‘Below the House’ in that it is an extension of the nightmarish-dream world experience we wanted to convey.”
Fairy Rust is out on the 29th July via Fire Talk Records and you can pre-order it now from the Wombo Bandcamp page.
