Belfast quartet Wynona Bleach announce their sophomore album Animal Style, and share the explosive new single ‘Be Positive’. Due May 29 via Fierce Panda Records (UK – renowned for work with Coldplay, Placebo, Ash) and Propeller Sound Recordings (US only), the band’s second full length release showcases some of their most complete and expansive work to date.
Produced by Wynona Bleach’s own Jonny Woods alongside Andy Bradfield (Bjork, Rufus Wainwright, The XX, Manic St Preachers, Spice Girls), and Avril Mackintosh (Bryan Adams, Marillion), the new single ‘Be Positive’ captures an expansive, crunching first taste of the album with heavily distorted guitars, punching drums and grounding bass under the commanding, soaring lead vocals. Surrounded by well placed harmonies, the track builds through its anthemic chorus. Driving and intense, yet atmospheric and mysterious thanks to the reverb drenched nature of the production, the result is a sound as rooted in alt-rock and punk as it is in shoegaze and grunge.
Speaking about the single, the band explain: “When nostalgia may seem your only way to feel positive about the future, it might be best to kill your darlings. With that being said, we wanted to feature a big “Phil Collins” snare in it, so armed with the cheapest lexicon reverb rack unit we could find (an MPX100) and without the ability to change the duration of the snare reverb, we wrote the entire song around that snare sound – that we recorded analog. The track title is a nod to one of the band members blood type, and a nod to goth rock heroes of ours, Type O Negative.”
Animal Style:
- Be Positive
- Religion
- I Deserve That
- Not Cool With It
- Binx
- Tangerine
- Shrink
- Swim in the Bay
- Gonk
- Weakling
- Scrab
- One in a Million
