Cult British band Woo announces two albums in March via IPR
Los Angeles, California (Release): Independent record label Independent Project Records (IPR) announced that they will release two albums from UK cult band Woo on March 29. Additionally, the single 'The One That Got Away' was released on January 23 via DSPs and IPR’s YouTube page.
Both Robot X (2016) and Xylophonics (2017) have been reshaped and newly conceived with updated artwork for release as, for the first time ever, a two-for-one album release on two-compact disc and double vinyl set, as well as digital formats.
IPR and Woo first worked together in 1988 with the release of 'Whichever Way You Are Going, You Are Going Wrong' and then the acclaimed 1989 cult favorite 'It’s Cosy Inside'. Almost 40 years later, the men behind Woo, brothers Mark and Clive Ives, have been remarkably prolific and Independent Project Records is in the fourth year of its relaunch. Time to join forces again.
“We had a great collaboration with Bruce back then,” says Clive Ives of Woo. “Both Mark and I were delighted about this new double album with IPR. We love Bruce’s aesthetic and distinct designs. He has really surpassed our expectations with his beautifully crafted letterpress artworks for the two albums. And IPR asked the brilliant Josh Bonati to master our albums!”
“I first met Mark and Clive Ives in the mid-eighties after being thoroughly amazed by the music of Woo on their self-released debut album 'Whichever Way You Are Going, You Are Going Wrong',” said Independent Project Records founder Bruce Licher. "I’m very excited to be working with them again on their catalog almost 40 years later as both Robot X and Xylophonics are wonderfully weird albums cut from the same cloth as the electronic uniqueness they created years ago. There is nothing else quite like the sound that the Brothers’ Ives make — a sound that is quintessentially Woo.”
'Robot X' and 'Xylophonics' tell a story of retro-futuristic visions from different angles: both proudly experimental, they combine a deluge of musical influences to offer something that is, quite remarkably, deeply layered and minimalist at the same time. The unpredictable instrumentals invite listeners to attach their own fantasies to what they hear, whether those fantasies belong to the past, the present or, more likely, a robotic future.