WAX & FEATHERS

"If you're searching for the next big thing then look no further. It is difficult to see how, in a few years time. Whales in Cubicles won't be headlining Reading Festival." Artrocker

"Huge riffs and apathetic anthems."  The Independent

“An impressive display of hazy guitars, thundering drums and raw vocals.” Clash

"A combination of knowing when to blow up speakers and when to take a break blasts WIC into the stratosphere. Drunken Werewolf’s favourite active British band.” Drunken Werewolf

Having recently released their debut album 'Death In The Evening', recorded at legendary Monnow Valley Studio with producer Nick Mailing and mixed by Simon ‘Barny’ Barnicott (Peace, Kasabian, The Temper Trap, Placebo, Arctic Monkeys, Editors), Whales In Cubicles re-release crowd favourite ‘We Never Win’.  

Since forming in 2012, Whales in Cubicles have carved out a distinctive niche within the UK music scene, creating complex but often minimalist soundscapes that owe more to 90s alternative rock than psychedelia. With strong support from The Fly, Q Magazine, The Independent, Artrocker, Drunken Werewolf, Clash and major attention from BBC Radio 1, BBC 6Music, XFM and Amazing Radio.

Whales in Cubicles are bringing their music back on the road with a UK tour in May, ending on June 5th with a show at the Barfly in London. 

04 May - Handmade Festival - Leicester, UK
07 May - Krakk - Machester, UK w/ Fight Like Apes
08 May - The Duchess - York, UK w/ Fight Like Apes
09 May - Oakford Social Club - Reading, UK 
10 May - The Great Escape Festival - Club.The.Mammoth. Stage - Brighton, UK
15 May - Lamplighter - Northampton, UK 
16 May - Bunkers Hill - Nottingham, UK 
23 May - New Adelphi - Hull, UK
29 May - The Mothers' Ruin - Bristol, UK
05 June - The Barfly - London, UK

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We Never Win

"Surly and melodic... sounds like Stephen Malkmus kicking out the jams with Weezer." The Fly

"Huge riffs and apathetic anthems."  The Independent

“An impressive display of hazy guitars, thundering drums and raw vocals” Clash

London based Whales In Cubicles have announced the release of their highly anticipated debut album 'Death In The Evening', recorded at legendary Monnow Valley Studio with producer Nick Mailing and mixed by Simon ‘Barny’ Barnicott (Peace, Kasabian, The Temper Trap, Placebo, Arctic Monkeys, Editors) it is out 10th February 2014 on CLUB.THE.MAMMOTH.

Since releasing the debut single ‘We Never Win’ in 2012 they've carved out a distinctive niche within the UK music scene, creating complex but often minimalist soundscapes that owe more to 90s alternative rock than psychedelia. With strong support from The Fly, Q Magazine, The Independent, Artrocker, Clash and major attention from BBC Radio 1, BBC 6Music, XFM and Amazing Radio they're building up quite the momentum.

'DEATH IN THE EVENING' ALBUM TOUR:
28/01/2014 - Think Tank, Newcastle 
29/01/2014 - Sneaky Pete's, Edinburgh 
31/01/2014 - A Nation Of Shopkeepers, Leeds 
01/02/2014 - Night & Day, Manchester 
05/02/2014 - Cookie Jar, Leicester 
06/02/2014 - Moles, Bath 
07/02/2014 - The Prince Albert, Brighton 
13/02/2014 - Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen, London 
14/02/2014 - Sixty Million Postcards, Bournemouth 
15/02/2014 - Start The Bus, Bristol 
22/02/2014 - Oakford Social Club, Reading

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Wax & Feathers

I Knew It

Yesterday's News

"Surly and melodic... sounds like Stephen Malkmus kicking out the jams with Weezer." The Fly

"Huge riffs and apathetic anthems."  The Independent

“An impressive display of hazy guitars, thundering drums and raw vocals” Clash

London based Whales In Cubicles have announced the release of their highly anticipated debut album 'Death In The Evening', recorded at legendary Monnow Valley Studio with producer Nick Mailing and mixed by Simon ‘Barny’ Barnicott (Peace, Kasabian, The Temper Trap, Placebo, Arctic Monkeys, Editors) it is out 10th February 2014 on CLUB.THE.MAMMOTH. with lead single 'All The Pretty Flowers', out the previous week.

Since releasing the debut single ‘We Never Win’ in 2012 they've carved out a distinctive niche within the UK music scene, creating complex but often minimalist soundscapes that owe more to 90s alternative rock than psychedelia. With strong support from The Fly, Q Magazine, The Independent, Artrocker, Clash and major attention from BBC Radio 1, BBC 6Music, XFM and Amazing Radio they're building up quite the momentum.

'DEATH IN THE EVENING' ALBUM TOUR:
28/01/2014 - Think Tank, Newcastle 
29/01/2014 - Sneaky Pete's, Edinburgh 
30/01/2014 - A Nation Of Shopkeepers, Leeds 
01/02/2014 - Night & Day, Manchester 
05/02/2014 - Cookie Jar, Leicester 
06/02/2014 - Moles, Bath 
07/02/2014 - The Prince Albert, Brighton 
13/02/2014 - Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen, London 
14/02/2014 - Sixty Million Postcards, Bournemouth 
15/02/2014 - Start The Bus, Bristol 
17/02/2014 - The Joiners, Southampton

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ALL THE PRETTY FLOWERS

Golden Medal

I'm sorry he doesn't go down on you 
like I used to
and he doesn't like your smell the tomboy shirts
and your hair bright red 
I thought I was your rock
I was your island
and you were a drop of sound 
in my ocean of silence

Promise you won't leave before the summer's through

I'm sorry he doesn't caress your hair
and that you don't sleep as well
as we used to 
with your head cradled on my chest 
that I'm still the single man in this world 
who can take you there 
no I do miss you

I thought I was your proof
I was your bias 
and you my altitude 
my arctic climate
I can't even look at you
or picture when times were good 
remember the fights we had
or January when you said

promise you won't leave before the summer's through

I'm sorry if he doesn't understand
he took you from someone else 
someone you can't let go
and that love it will show

I thought I was your sun 
I was your black hole
I thought you were my moon, my gravity
my satellite sister, I could pull you through infinity with me
hurl you through the misery 
the rhythm of the arcs and the constellation scenery

but stop calling me when you're with him
stop calling me when he's asleep 
it weakens me

Promise you won't leave before the summer's through

4 - Before The Summer

I'm mad at the kid but I have to be kind to him 
I'm mad at the simple answers 
and the way he falls for everything 
I'm mad at the kid but I have to do right by him 
I'm mad at his black and white 
the lonely nights 
in isolation tank 

I know he's trying to help
only trying to help 

stop and start you're not that smart 
if only words could change a heart 
you'll kill me 
I know you'll kill me  

I'm mad at the sky I'm mad at the moon 
that keeps me up when I should shut my eyes
the clouds that shift the shape they bring before my window 
my weeping willow 
my weeping willow 

stop and start you're not that smart 
if only words could change a heart 
you'll kill me 
I know you'll kill me  

I'm mad at the kid 
He's only trying to help 

2 - The Kid

Those cascades forming in the storm that followed you
they were chasing summer
and they would bring the thaw of spring to you 
if you let them
dragged you down and in the mud that flooded you
your eyes were starless
didnt' shine like they were meant to do 
and the rest is silence

It came crashing
we came rushing in 
too dark to see it
but it was written on the wall
you prayed for sunlight 
I brought the rain
endless dividing
we're in the middle of a war
but still it grows 
and still it glows
I'm on your side dear
I'm on your side

The last man standing on the plains of solitude
with the iron smile
he's walking all the way to you
with a makeshift heart
and now he swears he'd give it back to you
if he only could

It came crashing
we came rushing in 
too dark to see it
but it was written on the wall
you prayed for sunlight 
I brought the rain
endless dividing
we're in the middle of a war
but still it grows 
and still it glows
I'm on your side dear
I'm on your side

1 - Cascades

The vicious circle is always open
and I'm fixing something that was never broken
Someday I'll be leaving too 
when I break myself in two

I took your side flying over
hallowed wasteland, undiscovered

Someday I'll believe it too
When l give myself to whom

You're still in my blood 
You're still my blood

The vicious circle is always open 
I've words of wisdom that I've never spoken
someday I'll stop loving you 
then I'll break myself in two

You're still in my blood 
You're still my blood

I wanted to see it so bad
I tried to squeeze it tight 
with my weak hands 
hold me up with rope around the neck 
a song to lift me up
a song to drop me down

You're still in my blood 
You're stIll my blood

Whales in Cubicles

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