My name is Adam Walton. I’m from Yr Wyddgrug (Mold) in north Wales. I love chords, melodies and writing songs inspired by the likes of The Kinks, Nick Drake and Elliott Smith.  The first song I ever wrote was called ‘Cloudburst’, back when I was 14 or 15. The title track of my new E.P isn’t that song; I just love the word and I remember being a kid in Nannerch, playing out in the fields and woods, and how a sudden rain shower - especially on an otherwise bright day - would cast everything in a strange light and mood. That’s what I wanted to capture with this song. 

When I wrote ‘Cloudburst II’ I was listening to Beck’s album ‘Morning Phase’ a lot. That album has a really distinct atmosphere: something a little removed and observational that I liked, a faith that things would get better that has nothing to do with a god but everything to do with nature and time.

There is a philosophy to the recording of this song - and the rest of the album. I listen to a lot of new recordings that have been fixed - partially dehumanised - by the miracles of tuning plug-ins, multiple takes and editing. Although I think it’s valid and interesting to use the technology of your time to best capture your music, I also wanted something that sounded more human, flaws and all.

‘Aspartame’ is about accepting people even if they hold different views to you, and how fake news sites and corporations benefit from stirring us up, exaggerating the differences between folk who would otherwise get along with each other. 

‘Rainy Sky Sunday’ is an old song I originally wrote for a Neil Crud acoustic session in 2016. I couldn’t sing it then, which was mortifying, but I love the chords and the melody, and - like ‘Cloudburst’ - it’s similarly obsessed with using weather as a hackneyed metaphor. 

’27’ is an instrumental interlude. I love effects pedals, sampling and manipulating whatever I can capture or play to convey a mood that’s sympathetic to the songs it introduces. The forthcoming album - ‘Afal’ - is interspersed with many such interludes. I hope they’re interesting companion pieces.

When I released my previous single ‘Mary Sees UFO’s’ last April, the album pressing was due to arrive imminently. However interminable delays at the vinyl plant meant that the pressing didn’t arrive until mid-December. Then - upon closer inspection - there was a blemish in every copy of the vinyl that meant I had to wait even longer, while it was re-pressed.

The pressing has now arrived and is blemish free. I will release ‘Afal’ on Friday, 18th. April 2022.

The Cloudburst E.P cover was designed by SafariArt (Jon Mlynarski) 
https://instagram.com/safariartdesign

‘Cloudburst II’ was recorded at Orange Sound Studios in Penmaenmawr by Russ Hayes (Kidsmoke, Campfire Social, Peaness). All other tracks were recorded at home by me.

The EP will be available via the usual download / streaming outlets from Friday, February 25th 2022.

Thanks for listening / diolch am wrando.

Cloudburst E.P tracklisting
27 (instrumental interlude)
Cloudburst II
Aspartame
Rainy Sky Sunday

 All songs ©2022 written by Adam Walton (Copyright Control)

Cloudburst E.P

B side that'll be exclusive to an upcoming single release.

Thanks for listening / diolch am wrando.

Aspartame (B side)

Rainy Sky Sunday (B side)

Cloudburst II

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The Immediate are a three-piece indie, power pop band from Mold in north Wales.

We release our Mold EP on Friday 3rd March 2017. The EP will be available to buy on limited edition CD and digitally via bandcamp / iTunes etc.

Mold features 4 brand new recordings, 3 of which are exclusive to the EP.

Lead track, What’s The Matter Kevin Jones?, is a song about some of the kids we went to the Alun School with, who weren’t as fortunate as us and didn’t make it into their 30’s. 

Light Dimensions is the first song we wrote when we reconvened after a long hiatus.

Manbuoy is the title track of our forthcoming debut album, however it does not feature on the album itself. It’s a mostly spoken-word piece that exaggerates all of its writer’s worst qualities.

Mold was recorded at Orange Sound Studios in Penmaenmawr, North Wales by Russ Hayes, who has worked on recordings by Peaness, Campfire Social, Kidsmoke, Catfish and the Bottlemen and Billy Bibby and the Wry Smiles.

The sleeve design was done by Paul Maurice from Wrexham. It’s a detail of Shire Hall, the brutalist former seat of Flintshire County Council that sits on a hill, above Mold town centre.

The Mold EP will be launched at a hometown gig at Theatr Clwyd, Mold on Friday, 3rd. March. We’ll be joined by our friends Campfire Social and Skellums. Tickets are £7 and available here:

https://www.theatrclwyd.com/en/whats-on/headliner-rock-night/

Mold EP tracklisting (r/d 3rd March 2017):

1.	What’s The Matter Kevin Jones?
2.	Light Dimensions
3.	Tremble
4.	Manbuoy

If you have any further enquiries, please contact:

theimmediateband@gmail.com

http://facebook.com/theimmediate
http://twitter.com/the_immediate

There is a YouTube video telling the story of the band so far, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtERsE3ihDg

We originally split in 1997 due to frustration, an argument over a mouth organ and the success of Stereophonics.

We released one single (unaccountably popular in Sweden), made every conceivable mistake in the How To Be A Successful Indie Band handbook, toured with some excellent bands (Mansun, 60ft Dolls, Dodgy) and flickered out, leaving behind the memory of some great gigs, a few fine songs, and little else.

In March 2016, we reconvened to repair friendships and renew tinnitus. New songs came much more easily than the old ones, probably because we are playing to please only ourselves - with no thoughts of success or acclaim - for the first time in our existence.

There is more truth and resonance in our songs now than ever before. And power. And invention. We write songs about hope and love in the face of the moribund, daily grind. 

You will possibly hear fragments and echoes of the following artists in our sound (The Jam, Wire, XTC, Pixies, Badfinger, REM, Dr Feelgood, Small Faces, Husker Du, The Who, Ride, Big Star, The Cure, Joy Formidable, The Go-Betweens, Teenage Fanclub), but nothing has been plagiarised or misappropriated to mask a deficiency of our own ideas.

Cloudburst E.P

AdamWaltonTheImmediate