Today, the Dutch rock band DeWolff have unleashed the next single and opening track from their new album ‘Love, Death & In Between,’ out February 3rd via Mascot Records / Mascot Label Group. Recalling classic hits like “Love Train” by The O’Jays, “Night Train” is a joyous roof-raiser that deftly blends psychedelic southern rock with classic soul & R&B. Watch the official music video for “Night Train” here.

“Night Train” follows the album’s previous singles “Counterfeit Love,” which the band called “the most Zeppelin-esque thing we ever recorded,” and “Heart Stopping Kinda Show,” which was released just after the band finished up a 13-date run with The Black Crowes across mainland Europe. ‘Love, Death & In Between’ is a reaction to the band’s previous two studio albums: ‘Tascam Tapes,’ which was recorded on the road with a four-track cassette recorder from the 1980s, and their socially distanced recording ‘Wolffpack,’ which debuted at #2 on the Dutch charts. “For this, we wanted to do something with people,” singer/guitarist Pablo van de Poel recalls – “as many people as possible.”

The lightning strike moment for ‘Love, Death & In Between’ came via Memphis. “In 2019, I attended a sermon by Al Green at his own church, and it was a life-changing experience, musically,” Pablo remembers. In May 2022, they went to Kerwax, an analogue studio in the village of Loguivy-Plougras in Brittany. “We thought, let’s go on an adventure,” he says. Located in Northwestern France and surrounded by forests, they retreated to the residential studio for two weeks, engulfed in vintage recording equipment from the 1940s to the 1970s.
 
Recording live to tape, with no overdubs, brothers Pablo (guitar/vocals) and Luka van de Poel (drums/vocals) alongside Robin Piso (Hammond/Wurlitzer) were joined by a host of friends for the recording. The themes on the album were partly inspired by novels from 20th-century American authors, particularly John Steinbeck’s Tortilla Flat. “There is a quote from him, ‘The good story lay in half-told things which must be filled in out of the hearer’s own experience,’ and that was something I really wanted to do with lyrics on this record.” At the same time, the band was diving deep into old soul and R&B records – Sam Cooke, The Impressions, The Coasters, The Clovers, Ray Charles and Little Richard, as well as a heavy dose of gospel – The Soul Stirrers, Al Green and early records by The Staple Singers.
 
“Counterfeit Love,” wears its heart on its sleeve, whereas the 16-minute “Rosita” shows their progression. “How I want to write now, is more reflected in songs like this,” he says. “I wanted those lyrics to feel like a story, but also a journey within itself.” “Heart Stopping Kinda Show” is “how I see life,” he adds. “Life is the heart-stopping kinda show. I was writing with Tortilla Flat in mind. These characters are not constantly overthinking things; they live, drink wine, and have these beautiful moments. They are doing the ultimate living. In the song, I wanted to describe the things in life that are beautiful.” “Will o’ the Wisp” has a seductive darkness, whilst “Night Train,” “Message for my Baby”, and “Wontcha Wontcha” are joyous roof-raisers.
 
Out of the rural surroundings of Brittany, DeWolff left with twelve songs, over four tapes, with friends, having fun and remembering what is most important to them. On a diet of Al Green, Sam Cooke, and John Steinbeck, they’ve created some of their most soulful but rousing music. When they sing, “Hey there baby won’t you come on in, I got plenty of old records that we can play, some rhythm & blues, some old rock ‘n roll, yes, the type of stuff that can save a soul”, you better get ready for that heart-stopping kinda show.

Stay tuned for continued updates.

Track list

1. Night Train
2. Heart Stopping Kinda Show
3. Will o’ the Wisp
4. Jacky Go To Sleep
5. Rosita
6. Mr. Garbage Man
7. Counterfeit Love
8. Message For My Baby
9. Gilded (Ruin of Love)
10. Pure Love
11. Wontcha Wontcha
12. Queen of Space & Time

DEWOLFF have released a new single, entitled “Counterfeit Love”, taken from their upcoming album Album “Love, Death & In Between”, coming out on February 3rd 2023 via Mascot Records / Mascot Label Group.

Talking about the new song they say “COUNTERFEIT LOVE is a song all about fake love. Where does it come from? What is it worth? Where can you spend it? How can you spot it? Held up to the light it might show its colour shifting truth! Like all the rest of the album, everything you hear was recorded live in one take to analog tape at the Kerwax Studio in France. It’s got a blistering Hammond solo that was conceived at the very last minute, and it might just be the most Zeppelin-esque thing we ever recorded!”

They have previously released “Heart Stopping Kinda Show” from the album at the same time that they competed a 13-date run of shows with The Black Crowe s across mainland Europe. Love, Death & In Between is a reaction to their previous two studio albums. Tascam Tapes, which was recorded on the road with a four-track cassette recorder from the 1980s and the socially distanced recording of the #2 Netherlands album charting Wolffpack. “For this, we wanted to do something with people, as many people as possible,” singer/guitarist Pablo van de Poel says.

The lightning strike moment for Love, Death & In Between came via Memphis. “In 2019, I attended a sermon by Al Green at his own church, and it was a life-changing experience, musically,” Pablo remembers. In May 2022, they went to Kerwax, an analogue studio in the village of Loguivy-Plougras in Brittany. “We thought, let’s go on an adventure,” he says. Located in North-western France and surrounded by forests, they retreated to the residential studio for two weeks, engulfed in vintage recording equipment from the 1940s to the 1970s.

Recording live to tape, with no overdubs, brothers Pablo (guitar/vocals) and Luka van de Poel (drums/vocals) alongside Robin Piso (Hammond/Wurlitzer) were joined by a host of friends for the recordings.  The themes on the album were partly inspired by novels from 20th-century American authors, particularly John Steinbeck’s ‘Tortilla Flat. “There is a quote from him, ‘The good story lay in half-told things which must be filled in out of the hearer’s own experience,’ and that was something I really wanted to do with lyrics on this record.” At the same time, the band were deep diving intoold soul and R&B records – Sam Cooke, The Impressions, The Coasters, The Clovers, Ray Charles and Little Richard, as well as a heavy dose of gospel – The Soul Stirrers, Al Green and early records by The Staple Singers.

Track list

1. Night Train
2. Heart Stopping Kinda Show
3. Will o’ the Wisp
4. Jacky Go To Sleep
5. Rosita
6. Mr. Garbage Man
7. Counterfeit Love
8. Message For My Baby
9. Gilded (Ruin of Love)
10. Pure Love
11. Wontcha Wontcha
12. Queen of Space & Time

DeWolff will release their brand-new album Love, Death & In Between on 3 February via Mascot Records / Mascot Label Group. They’ve also revealed the video to the new song “Heart Stopping Kinda Show,” which you can watch below. The band also kick off a 13-date European tour supporting The Black Crowes today, tickets are HERE. 

DeWolff are not a band to sit still. They thrive on constant motion. From psychedelic southern rock warriors to emissaries of soul. They’ve released five albums in the last four years, with 2021s Wolffpack becoming their highest charting record, reaching #2 in their native Netherlands, only missing out to Foo Fighters for the #1 spot. 

Love, Death & In Between is a reaction to their previous two studio albums. Tascam Tapes, which was recorded on the road with a four-track cassette recorder from the 1980s and the socially distanced recording of Wolffpack. “For this, we wanted to do something with people, as many people as possible,” singer/guitarist Pablo van de Poel says.

The lightning strike moment for Love, Death & In Between came via Memphis. “In 2019, I attended a sermon by Al Green at his own church, and it was a life-changing experience, musically,” Pablo remembers. “I was in there for one minute, and I was crying. He would be talking about someone who can’t pay their bills and would say, ‘I call up to the almighty saviour to help her.’ It was met with the sound of ‘Yeaaah! Yeaaah’s!’ The band would play two chords, which was beautiful. I was intensely touched by it. It left a profound impact on me. I wanted to do something like that at a live show, but we didn’t have any songs that fit. When we started writing, I wanted to do something like that, an almost religious experience. Because, after all, music does feel like a religion to us. It’s something that’s in our minds all the time. It’s what we dedicate our whole lives to.”

Watch the video for the new song “Heart Stopping Kinda Show” here:

In May 2022, they went to Kerwax, an analogue studio in the village of Loguivy-Plougras in Brittany. “We thought, let’s go on an adventure,” he says. Located in North-western France and surrounded by forests, they retreated to the residential studio for two weeks, engulfed in vintage recording equipment from the 1940s to the 1970s.

Recording live to tape, with no overdubs, brothers Pablo (guitar/vocals) and Luka van de Poel (drums/vocals) alongside Robin Piso (Hammond/Wurlitzer) were joined by a host of friends for the recordings. “We brought extra people and wanted their signature on it. Playing with ten people in one room is chaotic. Every take you do, somebody is not satisfied with how they play. But you realise what is important about a take.” 

Everything was recorded fully analogue and directly to tape, no computers were used in the making of the album. The tapes were then sent to a mastering engineer who cut it straight to a lacquer that was used for the vinyl pressing – even this mastering and cutting was done fully analogue.

The themes of the album were partly inspired by novels from 20th-century American authors, particularly John Steinbeck’s ‘Tortilla Flat. “There is a quote from him, ‘The good story lay in half-told things which must be filled in out of the hearer’s own experience,’ and that was something I really wanted to do with lyrics on this record.”

At the same time, the band were deep diving intoold soul and R&B records – Sam Cooke, The Impressions, The Coasters, The Clovers, Ray Charles and Little Richard, as well as a heavy dose of gospel – The Soul Stirrers, Al Green and early records by The Staple Singers.

“Counterfeit Love,” wears its heart on its sleeve, whereas the 16-minute “Rosita” shows their progression. “How I want to write now, is more reflected in songs like this,” he says. “I wanted those lyrics to feel like a story, but also a journey within itself.” “The Queen of Space and Time” follows the same character, “I wrote that in a dream,” he laughs. “It’s the same person. A god-like female figure that controls all kinds of crazy dark stuff. Also, with Rosita, the only way to be with her is to be asleep or dead, so it’s a combination of love and death. That’s where the album name comes from.”

“Heart Stopping Kinda Show” is “how I see life,” he says. “Life is the heart-stopping kinda show. I was writing with ‘Tortilla Flat’ in mind. These characters are not constantly overthinking things; they live, drink wine, and have these beautiful moments. They are doing the ultimate living. In the song, I wanted to describe the things in life that are beautiful.” “Will o’ the Wisp” has a seductive darkness, whilst “Night Train,” “Message for my Baby”, and “Wontcha Wontcha” are joyous roof-raisers.

Out of the rural surroundings of Brittany, DeWolff left with twelve songs, over four tapes, with friends, having fun and remembering what is most important to them. On a diet of Al Green, Sam Cooke, and John Steinbeck, they’ve created some of their most soulful but rousing music. When they sing, “Hey there baby won’t you come on in, I got plenty of old records that we can play, some rhythm & blues, some old rock ‘n roll, yes, the type of stuff that can save a soul”, you better get ready for that heart-stopping kinda show.

Track list

1. Night Train 2. Heart Stopping Kinda Show 3. Will o’ the Wisp 4. Jacky Go To Sleep 5. Rosita 6. Mr. Garbage Man 7. Counterfeit Love 8. Message For My Baby 9. Gilded (Ruin of Love) 10. Pure Love 11. Wontcha Wontcha 12. Queen of Space & Time

DeWolff are touring Sweden and Denmark in November
11 Plan B, Malmoe, Sweden
12 Tryckhallen, Falkenberg, Sweden
13 Valand, Gothenburg, Sweden
14 Hus 7, Stockholm, Sweden
15 Katalin, Uppsala, Sweden
17 Tojhuset, Frederica, Denmark
18 Tobakken, Esbjerg, Denmark
19 Portalen, Greve, Denmark

Tickets are available HERE. 

Dutch psychedelic kingpins DeWolff will release their new album ‘Wolffpack’ on February 5th 2021, via Mascot Label Group.

Today the band has unleashed the lyric video for ‘Half of Your Love’, watch here:

DeWolff on Half of Your Love:

“You might not have guessed it, but 70’s disco music is our guilty pleasure. Songs like Da Ya Think I’m Sexy or any ABBA song never fail to fill us with an unstoppable urge to move along to the groove. The main melody for HALF OF YOUR LOVE was actually meant for another song (Homegrown) but we decided it was too beautiful to be tucked away somewhere in a blues song. It needed a bigger spotlight -and a disco ball of course. “Keep the best for yourself, I only need less than half of your love”… This might just become your guilty pleasure too!”

The kaleidoscopic warriors were not long into their 2019 Tascam Tapes European Tour when the Covid19 pandemic broke and they, like so many others, had to turn back and head home. But, not before they played one more show on 17th March in Maastricht, in front of their crew. They were never going to go home easily.  

“We were very disappointed at first,” says Pablo van de Poel, singer and guitarist. “Because Tascam Tapes got so much attention and then – when we finally would be able to reap the rewards- the whole thing got cancelled. We felt like we just had something good going, you know. So, when it all collapses before your eyes, that’s a bummer.”

In their studio bunker in the Medieval town of Utrecht, The Netherlands, during the global lockdown, brothers Pablo and Luka van de Poel and Robin Piso have created another majestic record. Experimenting with hazy soundscapes, fizzing riffs, marauding organs, infectiously free-roaming melodies, and all tied in with an undeniably DeWolff sound. Liberators of the funky groove, they’re riding the highways swerving in an out of 70s soul-funk, fuzzed-up psychedelia, swamp-rock and haunting melancholia, with their shades on, convertible top-down and radio on, their sights are set on the horizon.

Friday Feb 5^th is album release day and the band will play a live stream concert in celebration of that in Tivoli, Vredenburg. Go check them out! It will be a DeWolff show like no other with a brass section, other sit-ins from guest musicians, all shot with vintage camera’s.

Oh, and it’s free!

Links to the live stream are below, show starts Friday FEB 5th at 8:30 PM CET/9:30 EET.

-https://www.tivolivredenburg.nl/studio
-https://www.tivolivredenburg.nl/agenda/livestream-dewolff-album-release-show-05-02-2021/
-https://www.facebook.com/TivoliVredenburgUtrecht

Tracklisting
Yes You Do
Treasure City Moonchild
Do Me
Sweet Loretta
Half Of Your Love
Lady J
Roll Up The Rise
Bona Fide
R U My Savior?
Hope Train

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Dutch psychedelic kingpins DeWolff will release their new album ‘Wolffpack’ on February 5th 2021, via Mascot Label Group.

Just recently DeWolff released a video for ‘Yes You Do’, watch below or stream via Spotify, HERE.

The kaleidoscopic warriors were not long into their 2019 Tascam Tapes European Tour when the Covid19 pandemic broke and they, like so many others, had to turn back and head home. But, not before they played one more show on 17th March in Maastricht, in front of their crew. They were never going to go home easily. 

 “We were very disappointed at first,” says Pablo van de Poel, singer and guitarist. “Because Tascam Tapes got so much attention and then – when we finally would be able to reap the rewards- the whole thing got cancelled. We felt like we just had something good going, you know. So, when it all collapses before your eyes, that’s a bummer.”

DeWolff is not a band to sit still. They’ve released three albums in the last three years – Tascam Tapes (2020), Live & Outta Sight II (2019) and Thrust (2018) – and toured relentlessly across Europe enriching the continent with their Psychedelic Southern Rock, selling out shows and picking up awards along the way. They are also not ones to paint by numbers – Tascam Tapes was recorded on the road with a four-track cassette recorder from the 1980s, and recorded in hotels, motels, a backstage or two and by the side of the road.  Watch the documentary on it here. They then gave fans exclusive access to listen ahead of release via a hotline number. They also teamed up with friends Dawn Brothers to release the collaborative “Next of Kin” EP.

So, when it came to studio album number nine, they had no intention of just waiting for things to blow over. “I figured: never in our lives are we going to have this much time again to soak up inspiration, to write and create,” Pablo reflects. “Music is our favourite thing in the world.”

With lockdown restrictions imposed across the world, the recording was as far from Tascam Tapes as you can get. A “DeWolff Demo Panel” WhatsApp group was set-up between Pablo, Luka van de Poel (drums) and Robin Piso (Hammond Organ) for them to exchange ideas. What started as an idea, grew. In June, they announced a special subscription  Wolffpack  service. Those that signed up would get three new songs, every two weeks for ten weeks, and the fans would get to choose the track listing for an album, exclusive to them.

“We could have spent this year making a rock opera comprising six-album sides as a reaction to Tascam Tapes,” Pablo adds. “But instead we used  the Tascam Tapes experience to turn our unfiltered musicality into songs. And just like with Tascam Tapes there was a time limit: in the beginning we had a lot of songs to choose from, but at the end we had to work a sweat to get those three new songs done in time!”

Several friends appear on the album such as soulful roots rockers the Dawn Brothers, blues rockers The Grand East, singer-songwriter Judy Blank, the riotous Broken Brass, French singer-songwriter Theo Lawrence and ex-Wolfmother bassist Ian Peres.

The album kicks off with the first song they finished, the soulful psychedelic funk of “Yes You Do,” featuring Ian Peres and longtime friend of the band, Judy Blank. “We wrote it in a Zoom meeting!” he says. They first met Peres back in 2012, sat at a table with Lenny Kravitz and Andrew Stockdale. “I was of course, completely starstruck, Ian was super kind and interested, and he had even heard about DeWolff. We clicked right away, and when we were touring Australia in 2013, we met up with him in Mullumbimby  where we had an epic full-day jam session at his buddy’s studio.” 

Pablo started reading the Old Testament during the lockdown. “I consider myself an atheist,” he says. “But I’ve always been curious about this book that so many find so important. I only read the first 80 pages, but I did find some interesting stories and symbolics that proved quite inspirational as song material. I’m also a big fan of Charles Bukowski and some of his fellow American writers like John Fante and their raw use of the English language, and in a way I tried to combine these two worlds into a dark love story.”

“Treasure City Moonchild,” struts in with a funky swagger and Piso’s trademark swirling Hammond, with Dawn Brothers’ Levis Vis providing some Bass juice. “Do Me,” includes Theo Lawrence on vocals and is through the eyes of an anti-hero who realizes he isn’t worthy of the woman of his dreams, and dates back to 2019 and the Next of Kin live show. “I consider this the best song I ever wrote, so I couldn’t stand the idea that it was only used for those Next of Kin shows and then never again! That’s why I brought it to DeWolff, but it needed some rearranging,” he says. Another song from the Next of Kin sessions was “Sweet Loretta” and features Dawn Brothers’ Stefan Wolfs and Darilyn’s Diwa Meijman. “Loretta is the protagonist’s childhood sweetheart. She has a rich dad, but he’s really conservative, and so she can only inherit his money if she marries a man. But she’s lesbian. So, the protagonist, who’s also out for this old guy’s money, suggests they play pretend and marry so they can split the money.”

They sweep through disco on “Half Your Love,” swamp rock on “Bona Fide” and take on sci-fi and the Old Testament on “RU My Saviour.” Their tour buddies The Grand East show up on “Roll Up the Rise.” Written in the first days of quarantine, it’s about the end of the quarantine – told from a future perspective. “Lady J,” came after Pablo watched the documentary “13th.” “I was quite shaken up by it,” he admits. “The lyrics are based on the idea that Lady Justice seems to have a scale that doesn’t measure the “weight” of your crime but the tone of your skin. She is supposed to be blindfolded, but the people who act in “her” name aren’t blind at all: they discriminate between white and black.”

The album ends with the forlorn “Hope Train.” Based on the Pulitzer prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead about two slaves in the US during the 19th century, who make a bid for freedom from their Georgia plantation. “I found it really hard to envision the world in which it takes place,” he says. The band used a 1970s Fisher-Price Toy cassette recorder in the intro, “We wanted to see if we could somehow approach the sound of those very early country blues recordings, like the ones by Blind Willie Johnson or Charley Patton. We figured the best way to try that is to use the lowest fidelity tape recorder we could find.”

In their studio bunker in the Medieval town of Utrecht, The Netherlands, during the global lockdown, brothers Pablo and Luka van de Poel and Robin Piso have created another majestic record. Experimenting with hazy soundscapes, fizzing riffs, marauding organs, infectiously free-roaming melodies, and all tied in with an undeniably DeWolff sound. Liberators of the funky groove, they’re riding the highways swerving in an out of 70s soul-funk, fuzzed-up psychedelia, swamp-rock and haunting melancholia, with their shades on, convertible top-down and radio on, their sights are set on the horizon.

Tracklisting
Yes You Do
Treasure City Moonchild
Do Me
Sweet Loretta
Half Of Your Love
Lady J
Roll Up The Rise
Bona Fide
R U My Savior?
Hope Train

Dutch psychedelic kingpins DeWolff have revealed a brand new video ‘Yes You Do’, featuring Ian Peres (ex-Wolfmother) and singer-songwriter Judy Blank. The song is taken from the band’s upcoming WOLFFPACK album, coming out via Mascot Label Group.

The kaleidoscopic warriors have been hunkered down in the studio over the summer for their WOLFFPACK recording sessions. In their Utrecht bunkers, during the global lockdown, brothers Pablo and Luka van de Poel and Robin Piso have been probing the annals of rocks byways and backstreets, experimenting with hazy soundscapes, fizzing riffs, marauding organs, infectiously free-roaming melodies and all tied in with an undeniably DeWolff sound. Liberators of the funky groove, they’re riding the highways swerving in an out of 70s soul-funk, fuzzed-up psychedelia, swamp-rock and haunting melancholia, all the while under a blanket of an aural assault of desert heat sunshine.

With the modern powers of technology, several guests passed through the proverbial doors of the sessions. For ‘Yes You Do,’ former Wolfmother bassist Ian Peres lays down some low-slung heaviness around the trio’s swirling fusion of soul, psychedelic and funk with Dutch singer-songwriter Judy Blank joining in on the action on vocals for a five-pronged party.

“It was the first song we finished.” The band say. “We wrote it in a Zoom meeting! Pablo had some parts of song lying around, and we put it all together, adding a break and a solo and whatnot here and there.”

Continuing they say, “Pablo and Luka recorded the basics together on tape: this was the third take! Robin recorded his Hammond and epic synth intro and solo at home. Then we sent it to Ian Peres. We met him back in 2013 in Mullumbimby, Australia, where we had one epic jam together. Ian was playing with Wolfmother at the time, and fortunately we kept in touch afterwards: we knew he was THE man to play bass on Yes You Do. His bass playing will totally blow your mind! And if that ain’t enough, we asked the great Miss Judy Blank to sing background vocals.”

Would you like to hear some more new music? Yes, you do? Excellent, of course you do. More to follow on that soon, but for now listen to this delicious 6-minute slice of goodness.