BUZZARD BUZZARD BUZZARD // JACK JONES // PAPA JUPE'S T.C.

Fresh from the release of their new album Skinwalker on Communion Records, we’re delighted to announce the CWRW debut of Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard.

Skinwalker follows the Welsh Music Prize-nominated debut Backhand Deals and was written and recorded at frontman and producer Tom Rees's Rat Trap studio, the room where Rees has previously recorded and produced tracks for emerging talent - Panic Shack, Do Nothing and The Bug Club. The material – as previewed on Therapy and their earlier single Chew – showcases a heavier and more disquieting sound than anything the band have released to date.

This darker sound and aesthetic take inspiration from found-footage horror and the Navajo concept of the Skinwalker – a legendary malevolent shapeshifter – from which the album takes its name. Thematically, each track on the record is designed to take you through descending floors of Rees’s mind each becoming more horrific than the last with the Skinwalker at the final floor, representing his inner fears, self-sabotage, hatred, and self-doubt. It’s a deeply intimate record of self-analysis and personal growth told through heavy fuzz-drenched guitars, a crushing rhythm section and fevered vocals.

Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard have appeared at Glastonbury, Eurosonic, Latitude, All Points East, SXSW and Green Man. They’ve made of end-of-year lists with NME, DIY and Dork, and earned plaudits from the likes of The Guardian, The Telegraph, MOJO, Uncut, Record Collector, The Needle Drop, The Independent, CLASH, The Line Of Best Fit and So Young, amassing radio support from BBC Radio 1, NPR and Radio X.

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Jack Jones joins us at the very start of his UK solo tour. Jack has enjoyed Top 10 success with Trampolene on the Independent Album Charts with three Top 10 Albums, hit the road as special guest to Liam Gallagher, supported The Libertines and had the honour of being the first act to headline Swansea Arena.

South Wales daydream believer Jack Jones is a compulsive wordsmith and obsessive jotter-down of phrases. Across three studio albums over the past decade, his work with Trampolene has always drawn from this humungous, ever-accumulating verbal resource. He has also published a novel (2023’s ‘Swansea to Hornsey’) and recited poems and delivered spoken-word onstage.

For his solo album, Jack has put away his guitar and embraced a fresh and highly contemporary sound in which to couch his hard-hitting state of the nation poems of existential fear and loathing. His lyrics tackle many of today’s burning issues: mental health, drug addiction, mortality and the tortuous demands of technology. There’s also joy and hope in there.

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With post-punk, surf, disco and gospel influences, Papa Jupe’s T.C.’s sleazy and theatrical live performances lampoon masculinity, politics and power. The Cardiff 7-piece are an emerging force in the vibrant Welsh music scene. As well as being shortlisted for the Green Man Rising competition, the band has also supported indie front-runners English Teacher on their UK headline tour and played a string of sold-out headline gigs.

Papa Jupe’s T.C. invite you to join the cult of Papa Jupe. Redemption comes to those who wait. Join the Taurus.

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