Ukraine’s On The Wane brings have released their brand-new single “Sultry Song”. The track is off the band’s forthcoming release Schism, which will be released digitally on November 20th, followed by a cd release.

The band formed in early 2014, influenced by 1980s alternative rock icons such as Sonic Youth, The Cure, Joy Division, The Pixies and Bauhaus, as well as shoegaze giants My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Cocteau Twins, and Ringo Deathstarr. They rented a garage, went into debt by buying guitar amplifiers, drums and a line, and settled comfortably in the garage until autumn.

In October of that year, they had enough material for their first album ‘DRY’, which was naive, honest and raw. Recorded during a continuous 27-hour session by well-known Kiev drummer Artur Mikhailenko in his garage studio, it was then mixed and mastered by Sevastopol-based producer Alexander Chabanenko.

Released in December 2014, that album was immediately well received by Ukrainian media with moderate attention abroad in Britain, Ireland, Canada, South America, and the USAThis led to Brazil’s The Blog That Celebrates Itself Records featuring the band in an interview and releasing thier track ‘Sweet Girl’ on the ‘Autumn Noises’ compilation.

Following a series of shows in Kyiv and other cities in Ukraine, they recorded their second release, now with hard-core vibes inspired by Mudhoney, Fugazi and similar bands. They unleashed their anxious 6-track ‘Sick’ EP on the world, delivering an angst-filled unbalanced sound that led Britain’s The Sound of Confusion to claim that “this band blows any out of the water for 2015 releases in terms of mixing power-driven genres like grunge, shoegaze and alternative rock”, citing Sonic Youth-esque vocals and the energetic ferver of Gang of Four and The Damned.

The band on Schism:

“The idea was to create a non-complicated video showing the atmosphere of our workplace, where we write our songs, and also introduce us as artists. After Dari and Eugene’s trip to Lisbon last year, they came back with huge inspiration from Portugal and this inspiration spawned the ideas for creating this song, which we called ‘Sultry”, says On the Wane guitarist Eli Laika. This video is directed by the band’s close friend Mykhailo Efimenko, who also did post-production.

Oscillating between dream gaze and power gaze fusion, On the Wane is Dari Maksimova (bass, vocals), Anna Lyashok (drums, vocals), Eugene Voitov (guitar, synth), and Eli Laika (guitar). Together, the Ukraine-based four-piece have become a smooth cohesive force in the shoegaze, neo-gothic and noise rock realm.

“This album is a synergy of four personalities reflecting the world outlook both on music and on life. The tone in which it is recorded is anxious although quite realistic. It’s about the questions affecting each of our existence, the questions to which everyone turns a blind eye on, and the questions that are usually left out of the picture. This album is not an answer – it is the result of our thoughts and forces to date,” says drummer Anna Lyashok.

LYRICS FOR “SULTRY SONG”

Until the night unhands Lisbon
You shouldn’t close your eyes
Just take a walk on cobblestone
Rely on darkness it is wise

Listen to rustling under your steps
hear my voice, I call you down
Back into ocean, sand has
the strongest hugs ever known

On The Wane
Schism
Tracklist

1 Truth Isn’t Bright
2 Fear
3 Human Race
4 Sultry Song
5 Revenge (Deeper Than You Can Imagine)
6 Alcohol
7 Drop Bombs
8 The Real Coward
9 Home
10 Bad News

LIVE DATES

Dec. 8, 2017 Kyiv, Ukraine – Monteray Live Stage (On the Wane ‘Schism’ album presentation)
Mar. 4, 2018 – Kyiv, Ukraine – Sentrum (Bowie night 2018)