Music: SONS OF BILLS announce date at the Rescue Rooms 19 August 2018

Central Virginia’s band of brothers SON OF BILL’s critically acclaimed new album ‘Oh God Ma’am’ is out now on Loose.

WATCH ‘BELIEVER/PRETENDER’ VIDEO HERE

UK AND EUROPEAN SHOWS IN AUGUST

NEW ALBUM ‘OH GOD MA’AM’ OUT NOW ON LOOSE

The band have now shared the video for the album’s first single ‘Believer/Pretender’. Directed by Ry Cox, the heart-warming video features plenty of homemade footage from the Wilson brothers’ family vaults. Lead singer James says “the song is mostly me singing to myself… the parts of me that remain earnest and true, and the parts of myself that have learned to fake it. There are innocent illusions we lose in growing older, and there are illusions about ourselves we inevitably take on as a means of making the realities of adult life more bearable. It’s a tension Faulkner likens to “trying to stuff a cat into a flour sack”, a feeling that our director tried to capture in the video.”

WATCH ‘BELIEVER/PRETENDER’ VIDEO HERE 

‘Oh God Ma’am’, Sons of Bill’s latest LP is the band’s most coherent artistic statement to date– subtle, risky, and sonically ambitious.  Recorded both in Seattle with west coast indie legend Phil Ek (Shins, Fleet Foxes) and in Nashville with Sean Sullivan (Sturgill Simpson) and mixed by Peter Katis (The National, Interpol) the album shows the Wilson brothers moving beyond the galvanic americana-rock comfort zone of previous efforts, for a more elegant and restrained sound– a darker, and more complexly layered rock record that manages to be the band’s most emotionally intimate and sonically expansive.  Insistent, dancey rhythms and dreamy, hook-filled, pyrotechnics abound, creating a deceptively anthemic mood around songs that are in and of themselves intensely introverted.
‘Oh God Ma’am’ is a coming-of-age record for an over-stimulated age– equal parts post-adolescent anxiety and old-soul humility– literate, gorgeous, and darkly contemplative.

Sons of Bill will tour the UK and Europe in August: