The Wedding Present

Listen to new songs by Tame Impala, Kid Cudi & Nigo, Hot Water Music, Curren$y & The Alchemist (ft. Boldy James), The Wedding Present, BabyTron, Kojey Radical (ft. Masego),

From Gang of Four to Bush Tetras and Stereolab to Spiritualized, its Indie Basement’s most crucial reissues, box sets and comps of 2021.

When he’s not being one of the most in-demand mixing engineers around, David Wrench is one half of duo audiobooks, who released their wonderful second album, ‘Astro Tough,‘ earlier this year. David tells us about what got the most play in the tour bus.

The Wedding Present will release a new 7” single every month in 2022 and features songs co-written with new member and Sleeper co-founder Jon Stewart.

From The Cure, R.E.M. and The Smiths, to Broken Social Scene, Pavement, Portishead and more, here are 20 songs by bands where the singers keep their mouths shut.

The Wedding Present’s third album is an indie rock classic and one of the great Loud Quiet Loud records of all time. “It was probably the first to be honest,” says frontman David Gedge.

The double vinyl anniversary edition includes the original album and a bonus disc with EP tracks, Peel Sessions and more. The Wedding Present will also play ‘Seamonsters‘ in full for a 30th Anniversary livestream.

Plus Nathaniel Rateliff, Otoboke Beaver, H.E.R., Girlpool, Adult Mom, and more livestreams you can watch this week since there are no live concerts to attend.

The album features Wedding Present classics in acoustic but not entirely unplugged form, plus a new duet with Sleeper’s Louise Wener.

This week in the Basement: reviews of new records by Lost Horizons (ex Cocteau Twins), Jetstream Pony (ex Wedding Present/Trembling Blue Stars), King Hannah, Half Japanese, Ghost Power (Tim Gane) and Gustaf.