While She Sleeps

The band's second album is here on vinyl for the first time ever.

Speaking on the release Mat Welsh expands “Brainwashed was an interesting time for us as a band, after the success of This Is The Six we felt the classic syndrome of ‘how do you follow up on a successful debut’. Our answer to this was to harness every bit of aggression and struggle we had and to channel it into the record. We wanted to make something that felt raw & relevant and provide a depiction of how the media & industry has the public under its control, in particular how our decisions are tailored to suit their profits. This record was our way of saying ‘we know what’s going on & we won’t be part of it’.

During the studio process Loz and I lived in a tiny practice room in an old factory building in Sheffield. It was rough, we slept on the floor and ate out of a microwave and we spent all day writing lyrics together after two months recording the music. We actually recorded almost the whole album with no vocals written and then took a break to write the vocals. Loz was awaiting vocal surgery and sang with polyps on his vocal cords, you can hear the strain & agony in his voice on this album. It was a hard process but one I remember fondly. And I especially love how the record still feels as relevant today as it did when we released it, potentially even more so with control and coercion even more so apparent today.”