the black watch

The Black Watch follow up 2023’s Future Strangers LP on Atom Records with their new album for Dell’Orso on Saturday 20th April 2024 (released on yellow vinyl).

Rock And Roll Globe to premiere video for first single ‘New Brooms Sweep Clean’ on March 8th The Morning Papers Have Given Us the Vapours was made with The Black Watch bandmates and producers/engineers Rob Campanella (Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Tyde, The Warlocks) and Andy Creighton (The World Record, Parson Red Heads). Ben Eshbach, formerly of The SugarplasYc, arranged the strings. Kesha Rose guests on lead vocals on the second single, Oh Do Shut Up. And the great Lindsay Murray once again lends her beauYful backing vox to a number of tracks. The Black Watch songwriter/frontman John Andrew Fredrick wrote the ten songs on this, his Los Angeles-based band's latest album, enYrely unselfconsciously, with no set goal in mind other than to revel in the joy of songwriYng, and, eventually, the luxury of recording his music with his more-than-accomplished band. The Morning Papers Have Given Us the Vapours, produced separately and together by Rob Campanella and Andy Creighton evinces The Black Watch's o~en stunning ability to, as Andy Gill once observed in The Independent, "find chaos in the calm, melody in the miasma." For the new LP, the band recruited longYme friends and allies Ben Eshbach (the Emmy-Award-winning frontman of The SugarplasYc) and Lindsay Murray (Gretchens Wheel) to compose and arrange strings and sing heaps of lovely backing vocals, respectively. John Andrew Fredrick--guitars, vocals, bass, percussion Rob Campanella--bass, percussion Andy Creighton--lead guitars, drums, bass Andy Campanella--drums produced & engineered by Rob Campanella & Andy Creighton addiYonal engineering: Kevin Dippold mastered by ScoR Campbell