Welly Big In The Suburbs Vinyl LP Roundabout Blue Colour Due Out 21/03/25
Please note this is a pre-order item due for release 21st March, 2025
Roundabout Blue Colour Vinyl
Tracklist:
1. Big In The Suburbs
2. Home For The Weekend
3. Knock And Run
4. Deere John
5. Soak Up The Culture
6. Shopping
7. Cul- De-Sac
8. Pampas Grass
9. The Roundabout Racecourse
10. Under Milk Wood
11. Family Photos
12. Country Cousins
13. It's Not Like This In France
14. Life Is A Motorway
The record launches alongside the incredible new single and title track 'Big In The Suburbs', available now. Reporting for duty as the next great British band, Welly recently wrapped the 14-date Southern Leg of The National Service Tour, with Northern dates and a headline show at London's Moth Club set to follow on December 4th as their nationwide trek reaches The Suburbs near you...
The album centres on the monochrome mundanity but also the unsung beauty of the suburbs; a collection of picture- perfect, alt- pop vignettes, in which regular lives are often quietly on the brink of going berserk. For his debut album - all written and self-produced by Welly himself - this rich tableaux of British life is celebrated for all its tragedies and triumphs. Here are songs about wanting more than you have, a world influx, doomed romance, and figuring out how to be happy where everybody knows your name (and your Mum's).Welly has been building his creative province all year with a series of singles in the run- up to Big In The Suburbs.
First single 'Shopping', for instance, pays tribute to the dying UK high street and today's grass- is- greener mentality, setting out the group's blueprint for Pop on a budget. 'Soak Up The Culture' meanwhile both sends up and adds to the canon of the lost, the Lads- On- Tour Anthem, with lawnmower- themed love- triangle 'Deere John' connecting a story arc with 'Cul- De- Sac' (and the stasis of two people at a romantic dead-end road). With inspiration ranging from the parochial storytelling of Blur or the intellectual electronica of Pet Shop Boys to kitchen- sink noughties bangers like Girls Aloud, Welly show early ambitions to reconnect the great,grassroots British tradition with the mainstream bands once beamed straight into your claustrophobic living room.