Wild Smiles will release their debut album, Always Tomorrow, on Sunday Best Recordings on October 27th. The trio, comprising brothers Chris and Joe Peden with drummer Ben Cook, will release their new single, Never Wanted This, ahead of the album on August 18th and the band will tour throughout the summer, taking in festival dates.

Hailing from Winchester, Wild Smiles were amazed when their first forays made such a splash. Their 2013 7”, Sweet Sixteen/Tangled Hair, took in elements of Beach Boys surf pop, Velvet Underground drones, Wall Of Sound beats, Jesus & Mary Chain low-fi garage clatter and Nirvana filth. A dazzling stew of sound, it was simultaneously classic, timely and forward thinking – it seemed amazing no one had smashed such sprawling decades of music together before.

A five-track Wild Smiles EP followed on Geoff Barrow’s Invada label that summer, led by the MBV-flecked Take Me Away, and, in that song’s spirit of escape, the band hit the road for much of the rest of the year, earning their touring chops before going on to sign with Sunday Best.

Wild Smiles then took time out to concentrate on honing their songwriting, determined that every track on their debut album would be a classic. Their sound expanded – the likes of The Ramones, Pulp and Dinosaur Jr crept in. And Chris Peden blossomed as a lyricist. The track “Hold On” was inspired by a friend of Chris’ who sadly killed himself, and faces up to the hopelessness of British youth in 2014. “People my age can’t get a job,” Chris sings. “Nothing to do, it’s so fucked up/People my age can’t get a job/Get a house, get a car, get a life… who’s there for us?” While I’m Gone and the single, Never Wanted This, are bold rejections of the mundane sort of life we’re expected to settle for: “I could get a job I could wear a suit/A monkey in a suit to make some money”.

“It’s our perception of life,” says Ben. “Not the voice of a generation but just how we three see it.”

‘Always Tomorrow‘ TrackListing:

1. Fool For You
2. Never Wanted This
3. Always Tomorrow
4. Everyone’s The Same
5. Hold On
6. The Best Four Years
7. The Gun
8. Figure It Out
9. Girlfriend
10. See You Again
11. I’m Gone.

EU Tour Dates:

Aug 1-3 – Camp Bestival – Dorset, UK
Sep 6 – Bestival Festival – Isle of Wight, UK
Sep 9 – Madam JoJo’s – White Heat – London, UK
Sep 18 -Reeperbahn – Hamburg, GER
Oct 18 – Psychedelia Weekend – Southampton, UK
Nov 10 – ME1 – Kent, UK

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