Elephant Man

William Welfare

Elephant Man
Performed By William Welfare
Album UPC 888174750149
CD Baby Track ID TR0000445675
Label Welfare Records
Released 2014-04-29
BPM 87
Rated 0
ISRC uscgj1487164
Year 2014
Spotify Plays 247
Writers
Writer John William Barnard
Pub Co John William Barnard
Composer John William Barnard
ClearanceFacebook Sync License,Traditional Sync,YouTube Sync ServiceOne Stop
Rights Controlled Master and Publishing Grant
Rights One-Stop: Master + 100% Pub Grant
Original/Cover/Public Domain original
Country South Africa

Description

‘Shunt’ is a spaced-out garage rock album layered with intimate small town secrets, dark existential romance and surreal social snapshots that captures William Welfare’s immediate urge to make his first record in English.

Notes

South African rocker and Rolling Stone SA writer/photographer Willim Welsyn recently translated his name to William Welfare for his debut English album after having released five critically acclaimed Afrikaans albums in the past.

‘Shunt’ is a spaced-out garage rock album layered with intimate small town secrets, surreal social-snapshots and dark existential romance that captures his immediate urge to make his first record in English before he turns 30.

Album opener “4 Cups of Dust” is a tumbling, tom ‘n’ riff roll confession about social claustrophobia - frosted with clean breaks, tremolo-spirals and dirty acoustic guitars. Space rock opera “Elephant Man” draws upon the primitive riff-rage of the 70s, “Fat People” addresses the obesity of our current consumerist culture while “Oh No” mourns our mortality.

The album was written and recorded in seven days in Welfare’s small hometown of Ladismith with his’s longtime friend and producer, Jo Ellis, behind the desk.

“I snatched [drummer] Kyle Gray from his day job for two days, wrote the riffs and arrangements on the spot and tracked the guitars and drums live in one day. No click track, no bull.”

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