Wurld Series - The Giant's Lawn

Wurld Series - The Giant's Lawn
€10.00 - €18.00

Limited edition Lime Vinyl LP.

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Wurld Series are back with a new LP of curly rock miniatures and overgrown roadside curios. The Giant’s Lawn stretches the band’s reach, embracing new forms and figures, living corridors and side-quests. Where past worx borrowed from the literate heart of American indie, here, Luke Towart & Co. investigate earthen psychedelia, off-grid community folk, and highly bookish, antipodean snock.

There’s always been a fantastical bent to Wurld Series’ unspooling jaunts - 2021’s What’s Growing threw a little Canterbury scene in with the Christchurch sound - but The Giant’s Lawn goes deeper down the rabbit warren; a boy named frog dreams of escape, established trees are recognised for their contributions to humanity… “Rearing Wesley” marries schoolboy imagery with golden flushes of Richard Thompson inspired fretwork. “A Private Life” plays like a field recording of the morning after the carnival - cats yeowl, empty tents billow, gaudy excess sours in the clear light.

British psych-folk lends gentle, omnipresent guidance throughout, but early influences still hit; “Resplendent Fortress”, “Lord of Shelves” and “Illustrious Plates” bounce and buckle like Flying Nun faves 3D’s; compact vehicles for Towart’s Renaissance-era flash broadcasts. So it’s not that Wurld Series have turfed the wooly tube-fuzz of the sonic South, they’ve simply dragged their amplifiers from the pavement to the creek bed, where the air’s lighter and there’s room to spread out. - Matt Hellreigel

Credits

Wurld Series are Luke Towart, Brian Feary, Ben Woods and Ben Dodd.

Recorded in Christchurch and Kurow 2021–2023.

2, 3, 6, 12, 13, 15 and 16 engineered by Tom Havard at Sublime Studios in Kurow.

All other tracks engineered by Brian Feary.

Produced and mixed by Brian Feary.

Mastered by Brian Feary.

All songs written by Luke Towart except ‘Alive With Flies’ written by Luke Towart and Brian Feary.

Front cover by Priscilla Rose Howe.

Released by Meritorio Records and Melted Ice Cream, 2023.

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