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 anyABBA song never fail to fill us with an unstoppable urge to move along to the groove. The main melody for HALF OFYOUR LOVE was actually meant for another song (Homegrown) but we decided it was too beautiful to be tuckedaway 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 5th 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.
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 Tapesgot 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 in2012, 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 shakenup 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 Hammondand epic synth intro and solo at home. Then we sent it to Ian Peres. We met him back in 2013 in Mullumbimby, Australia, wherewe had one epic jam together. Ian was playing with Wolfmother at the time, and fortunately we kept in touch afterwards: weknew 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 askedthe 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.
Dutch psychedelic kingpins DeWolff have issued a Message Regarding WOLFFPACK, read below.
“We’re very happy to announce that we’re working on a ⚡NEW DEWOLFF ALBUM!⚡ Ever since we returned home from that “one-show tour” we’ve been writing and recording relentlessly: at first mostly from home but in the past month we started to record at our studio again, straight to analog tape. The songs we have until now are 🔥ON FIRE🔥 They’re some of the best we ever made!
Instead of letting you wait until 2021 for this hot new material we thought it might be cool to involve y’all in the making of this album! 😳 Imagine you getting to pick which songs make the next album and receiving this album months ahead of everybody else on exclusive vinyl… NOW you can, if you subscribe to our brand new WOLFFPACK! 🤯 How it works: for a one-time fee of €50 you get 3 new songs + music videos every two weeks until mid-September. By that time you’ll have about 15 songs (+ we’ll add some special unreleased material from the DeWolff vaults) and together with the other Wolffpack members you decide which 10 songs you like best. These songs will be pressed on colored, hand-numbered, signed and one-pressing-only limited edition 180g vinyl and then sent to you. To give you a little taste, check out this hilarious Wolffpack video including part of the song “Yes You Do” that we recorded with Ian Peres (ex-Wolfmother):
The album will include other guest appearances by Luther Dickinson, Theo Lawrence, Dawn Brothers and moooooore! 🌎🌍🌏
Go to http://www.wolffpack.nl to subscribe and become part of the WOLFFPACK! 🐺🐺🐺 (you can join Wolffpack at any time until September 15th and still receive the full monty)”
Today, April 24th, Dutch psychedelic kingpins DeWolff release a brand new single, ‘Live Like You’.
The band released their 7th studio album ‘Tascam Tapes’ in January to rave reviews from the Daily Mirror hailing their “falsetto dreaminess”, Classic Rock, Shindig and Planet Rock Magazine amongst others, it was a unique album that was recorded whilst they were on a prolific tour.
Now, ‘Live Like You’ was recorded all together differently. Taking on their trademark swaggering groove, it was originally written for a European Škoda car commercial by brothers Pablo and Luka van de Poel. When it was about to air they decided that it just needed one thing to make it a badass DeWolff song: Robin Piso’s Hammond. Its blistering hellfire takes this song – that’s about not following the masses but instead being your own man/woman in these times characterised by influencers and copycats- to the next level.
DeWolff doesn’t do conventional; from recording songs by the roadside, releasing a full album via a telephone hotline, multi-person interactive music videos and a formidable creative output. It’s no wonder they received a prestigious Edison Award (the Dutch equivalent of the ‘Mercury Music Prize’) ‘Best Rock Band’ last year.
The band had a flying start to the year with the release of ‘Tascam Tapes’ and a sold-out show at the iconic Paradiso in Amsterdam, they then went out on a sold-out headline tour through Belgium, France, Spain, and the Czech Republic. As the tour was due to continue through Austria, Hungary and Germany, Europe went into lockdown due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
Refusing to stand still and be thwarted by the outbreak, the band drove back home from Budapest and decided to put together a full show with a handful of crew in the Netherlands and live stream it to fans via Facebook, back on the 14th March – you can see the full show HERE. Following the lockdown measures, DeWolff made a plea to Dutch radio, urging them to play songs from Dutch artists only, to help home-grown talent receive some royalties during these difficult times. It was picked up by the Dutch national media and the call to arms was then adopted by the radio stations and Buma (Dutch rights organisation).
They also recorded a new song ‘Queen of Hearts’ amid isolation with some musical friends and as official ambassadors of Record Store Day, DeWolff decided to release their compilation album ‘Electrosaurus 2’. On the same day they broadcast their first Wolff-Cast via their socials, a video podcast with 8 artists from the ‘Electrosaurus 2.’
So, there you have it, this is no ordinary band. Free-spirited, resolute and freewheeling, those teenagers that formed a band from The Netherlands deep south have blazed a trail across Europe, released 7 studio albums (6 of which hit the Dutch Top 20), have played shows with the likes of The Black Keys, Blues Pills, Wolf People, Wolfmother, and Deep Purple. They’ve picked up fans in Seasick Steve and Roger Glover (Deep Purple/Rainbow) and have proved that amid the most trying time in a century their creatively fertile minds have no boundaries.
Raw Psychedelic Southern Rockers DEWOLFF will release their new album “Tascam Tapes“ tomorrow, 10th January 2020 via Mascot Records.
Today the band has released a new video ‘Nothing’s Changing’, watch it below.
DeWolff on the video:
”The video for our third single Nothing’s Changing was shot entirely during that 2018 tour on which we wrote and recorded the Tascam Tapes. You’ll see some of the crazy places and hectic circumstances under which some of the recording took place. Above all it offers a pretty hilarious insight in what touring with DeWolff’s like! It features quite a lot of musical friends of ours, can you spot them?!”
DeWolff are back and returning to your stereo this winter, but this time they strip down and go COMPACT! No drum kit, no Hammond and no guitar amps, as they present to you, the Tascam Tapes. Written, performed and recorded on the road for less than 50 euros, but sounding like a million bucks! Adjust your ears, as its coming tomorrow 10th January 2020 via Mascot Records.
Tracklist:
North Pole Blues
Blood Meridian I
It Ain’t Easy
Rain
Made it to 27
Nothing’s Changing
Let it Fly
Blood Meridian II
Awesomeness of Love
Love is Such a Waste
Am I Losing My Mind
Life in a Fish Tank