Taking many twists and turns along the way, while seamlessly evading any specific genrefication, it’s a potent mix – you only need to listen to the opening surge of ‘Maybe You Didn’t Know’ to acknowledge their growing confidence as songwriters. And while they retain that uniquely gloomy yet joyously anthemic sound, they lace it together with more refined electronic nuances and other natural, acoustic elements. There’s a real rawness and vulnerability to it – both sonically and lyrically.
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Between ourselves, Max Heyes who engineered and mixed this album and Phil Parsons who assisted, it felt like it was a good team to pull the album together.”Ī deeply personal project to its core, ‘Heavy Like A Headache’ sees the band present their full selves through each and every note. “By the time it came around to record this album, we’d spent quite a lot of time in studios recording music. As we were gathering songs for this album, we were realising that it couldn’t really be any other way – there were so many things twisting between each other on the songs that it really only made sense for us to produce it ourselves.” It kinda made us think, “could we do a whole album ourselves?”. With a strong idea of exactly what direction they wanted to take, they decided to produce the album themselves. Haydn adds “Four tracks on the the Happy Days! EP were produced by Faris Badwan, but two of them we did ourselves. We tried to make ‘Infancy’ sound as big and grand as we could, but this new album is a lot more sparse in places and it feels like there’s much more separation between each instrument to let each part breathe properly.” “This album was produced by ourselves and we’ve taken everything we learned from recording our first EPs, the first album and the Happy Days! EP and made something that we’re really proud of. We learned a lot from Dan Austin, who produced it and our first two EPs.” Taking what they learned from those projects, and channelling them into their second album, Haydn says “‘Infancy’ was the album where we found out who we were sonically as a band, where we tried new things for the first time and dipped our toes in the world of synths and electronics.
While ‘Infancy’ glided through an amalgam of genres from 80s post-punk to tumultuous indie, full of large, swelling choruses and majestic, monolithic arrangements, ‘Happy Days!’ scythed its way through real darkness, delving into a canvas of industrial beats, dream-pop soundscapes and dark, electronic textures. A wholly collaborative effort from start to finish, it presents them as a collective force – matching Haydn and Millie’s lyrical and melodic nous with Kyalo and Calum’s intricately crafted, multi-textured arrangements.Ī natural follow-up to their 2019 debut ‘Infancy’ and their ‘Happy Days!’ EP, released in lockdown, their second full-length album takes all the best parts of their previous projects and refines them even further. Musically, the album pushes The Ninth Wave further than they’ve ever gone before, pulling from influences as wide-ranging as Yves Tumor, Savages, Eartheater, Kelly Lee Owens and Young Fathers, while retaining their own distinct songwriting craft and approach – its diversity perhaps stems from the fact that all four members contributed to every facet of its creation. When you listen, ‘Heavy Like a Headache’ isn’t the sound of a band downing tools in fact, it’s the opposite. We’ve been sitting on it for a long time!” The first session was in August 2020 and we finished it at the start of last year. “We recorded ‘Heavy Like A Headache’ in three blocks down in Somerset, where we’ve recorded almost everything since our first release. With their final swansong set to take place at Glasgow’s SWG3 on Saturday, we catch up with the band’s frontman Haydn about the new album, their hiatus, memories and future plans. It’s a bittersweet moment for fans who have followed their every move for the last few years – from sweaty underground shows in The Priory and Broadcast to tours all over the UK, Europe and further afield. Of course, it arrives with the weight of the news that they will be taking an elongated break after its release. THIS Friday, The Ninth Wave release their second album ‘Heavy Like a Headache’ – easily their most ambitious and outstanding piece of work to date.įor a band who have presented themselves in many forms throughout their existence, their second album shows them at their most experimental and personable energised and confident in their art.
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