Sheffield quartet Sister Wives return with new album, Heavy Set, due 5th February on Redundant Span Records. Having previously explored psych-pop, glam and krautrock on their debut album Y Gawres (nominated for the Welsh Music Prize 2023), Heavy Set propels the band’s sound into darker terrain. It’s an album where hags are celebrated, beasts are unapologetically unleashed, and where noise and volume are pushed as much as harmony and songcraft. Quite simply, it’s a Heavy Set of songs.
“The new songs are about finding an alternative to the shit storm we live in,” says Sister Wives’ Donna Lee. “About finding our own island and escaping, exploding into space or digging deep holes and escaping into the underworld. They’re about removing ourselves from this post-industrial capitalist hell hole.”
Today they share new single “Hairless Whisper”, all dense, fuzzy, scuzzy, riff-work that melds early Black Sabbath sludge with the group’s natural propensity for hooks and melody. It’s something of a rager against late-stage capitalism.
Bassist/vocalist Rose Love shares:
“Hairless Whisper as a name just made us laugh but it’s actually about trying to reject the cult of productivity, this dehumanising culture that measures worth through achievement and possession, and how shallow and empty it can feel to try and climb that never-ending ladder. But in spite of ourselves, we keep getting hooked back in and it’s grinding us all down. It’s a call to face yourself and your choices in the void of stillness without all that noise.”
Sister Wives – “Hairless Whisper”
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Live Dates:
13th November – Grayston Unity, Halifax
7th December – Wharf Chambers, Leeds*
8th December – Xerox, Newcastle*
9th December – The Mist, Nottingham*
20th/21st February 2027 – Life After Death Festival, Walthamstow Trades Hall, London
*supporting Ginger Wizard
