The WAEVE, composed of Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall, today announced details of their second studio album. City Lightsscheduled for release on September 20, 2024 via Transgressive Records.
One year after their acclaimed self-titled debut album, The WAEVE are back with City Lights, a collection of 10 songs that illustrate the evolution of their collaborative musicianship and sees the band's sound solidify into something bolder, more expansive and self-assured. The churning art-rock storm of first single and title track, 'City Lights', is followed by the anthemic and expansive second single, 'You Saw', out now.
Graham and Rose said of the track: “'You Saw' is a song about recognizing how seemingly small decisions can have a seismic impact on the course of your life, how sometimes it seems like the way things happen are predestined. It's about reconciling a past version of yourself with the new version of yourself and being grateful for how things turn out. “It is built around a rhythmic string line to reflect the feeling of forward propulsive movement.”
Written by Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall and produced once again by James Ford, City Lights features Graham and Rose on vocals, keyboards, guitar, bass, drums and saxophone.
To celebrate the release of City LightsThe WAEVE will be performing three very special live performances at Rough Trade, as follows: Rough Trade Liverpool on 20th September, Rough Trade Nottingham on 21st September and Rough Trade Bristol on 23rd September.
The band will play their biggest show to date at Village Underground, London on October 29th later this year. Before that, The WAEVE will be on tour this summer, playing support on Elbow's UK tour; as well as a number of festival dates. List of dates below.
The City Lights tracklist is:
1) City lights
2) Dress
3) Moth to the Flame
4) I belong to…
5) Simple days
6) Broken guys
7) Song for Eliza May
8) Druantia
9) Endless Night Girl
10) Dawn
WAEVE Tour Dates – UK:
June 30: Bristol Sounds (supporting The Breeders)
July 21: Warwick Castle (supporting Noel Gallagher)
July 25 – Latitude Festival (Transgressive Takeover – Sunrise Arena)
August 4: Audley End (support elbow)
August 17 – Green Man Festival (Wales)
September 20 – Liverpool trade hard
September 21 – Hard Trading in Nottingham
September 23 – Hard Trading in Bristol
October 29 – Village Underground, London.
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