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.  The band will tour throughout the summer, taking in festival dates.

From Winchester, UK  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.

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. Their sound expanded – the likes of The Ramones, Pulp and Dinosaur Jr crept in. Tracks like the thrash-pop The Gun hark back to past traumas with a previous band; while the free download single Fool For You is “a simple love song.” The album traces a thematic arc of growing up and getting out, the struggles of the debt-heavy, priced-out youth generation.

Indeed, many of the songs on the album tackle issues that most other young bands are too ignorant of to approach. 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 was recorded and produced by Chris Peden. The debut album’s tracklisting runs as follows: Fool For You; Never Wanted This; Always Tomorrow; Everyone’s The Same; Hold On; The Best Four Years; The Gun; Figure It Out; Girlfriend; See You Again; I’m Gone.

Wed     2          JULY    Truro ,The Nightjar

Thu       3          JULY    St Agnes, The Taphouse

Fri        4          JULY    Penzance, The Studio Bar

Sat       5          JULY    Redruth, Charlies Bar

Fri        11        JULY    Festibelly (The New Forest)

Fri        18        JULY    XFM’s John Kennedy’s The Remedy, Tooting Tram’s Dub Hub (headline), London

Sat       6          SEPT    Bestival Festival, Isle of Whight

Sat       18        OCT      Psychedelia Weekend, Southampton

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