Release Date: Nov 2, 2018
Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
Record label: Heavenly
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A month after Welsh producer/mixer/engineer David Wrench moved to London, he met 21 year old Evangeline Ling at a mutual friend's party. At the time, Ling had been obsessively tapping out strange stories into her phone, fragments too short to be put to print. Instead, David suggested they try them to music. It took a day for the odd couple to start work, and tracks formed within hours of each other.
I saw Audiobooks at their first ever gig, a support slot at Heavenly Records' colossally fun three-day party in Hebden Bridge this February, and ever since then I've known that it's their inherent awkwardness and deep wonky weirdness that makes them amazing. That gig was a hot mess. It was also stratospherically brilliant. Songwriter, vocalist and saxophonist Evangeline Ling was in a Cossack hat, leaping and yelping with anxious energy.
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