Wax Head batter and bruise in new track ‘Clatter Coats’
The group’s latest psychedelic single comes ahead of six-date headline tour starting later this month.
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Manchester psych-punk collective Wax Head have returned with a new single, Clatter Coats, a four-and-a-half-minute battery on the senses — complete with The Who-esque synth arrangements, guitar so distorted it crashes through in phase more than distinct riffs, and wall-smashing vocals from drummer Lewis Fletcher.
With that kind of winning formula, the comparisons between established psych acts like King Gizzard and Osees might seem obvious. But that would do Wax Head a disservice, who have given the psychedelic genre a shot of fresh, punk-adjacent morphine…
The track lulls you into a false sense of climactic calm, before everything turns up to eleven and once more you’re driven mad with the sonic equivalent of the eye clamp scene from Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange. Clatter Coats isn’t for the faint of heart, no, but since when has the best music ever been?
Clatter Coats is out now.