Walking papers wp24/2/2023 When we made the record, we’ve never played a live show before. I mean, I think that as we made the first record and then Ben and Duff joined, after the record, it was me. Is there something in that? Would you say it’s a different performance that you are putting into this one or is it just where you’re coming from these days? An interesting one as well because it’s got a different feel to it. He did a good job and he worked his magic.ĪH: Some four years later we have then, a new album in the works. I mean, it just felt a very natural thing for the three of you to put on. It’s pretty awesome.ĪH: That’s pretty cool if you can at least pull that off which obviously he did because the following show in Helsinki, you’d never know. The day before, he played to I think 20,000 people and had never played the songs before, and he had to do both his part and the bass parts. ![]() We played one show before that in Bilbao, Spain or Basque Country. He had about two days to learn all the songs. The keyboard player, Ben Anderson, had to pick up the bass lines with his left hand. It was just I think the three of you on stage, wasn’t it? Duff didn’t make it to that one, did he?ĪH: That’s right. You were over in Helsinki, at the Circus Club as part of the Rock the Beach Festival. It was actually 2013, I think, when I managed to see you play. Something the UK needs to experience again.ĪH: It’s actually been quite some time since I’ve last managed to see you in the band live. As well as a new album, the question about live shows naturally arises as the band have a great stage reputation. ![]() We caught up with frontman Jeff Angell on a cross Atlantic phone call. The four musicians front man Jeff Angell, drummer Barrett Martin, bassist Duff McKagen and keyboard player Benjamin Anderson have once again deployed the in-sync production handiwork of mixmasters Jack Endino (Soundgarden, Nirvana, Mudhoney) and Martin Feveyear (Mark Lanegan, Kings of Leon, Queens of the Stone Age), and mastered by Chris Hanzsek, WP2 builds on the promising template of the band’s self-titled 2013 debut, which featured deeply impactful tracks like “The Whole World’s Watching” and “Capital T.” Indeed, Walking Papers have upped the sonic ante with the lucky 13 tracks put forth on their aptly dubbed second album WP2. The hard-rocking Seattle quartet Walking Papers knows exactly how to forge the sounds that back up everything they want to be as a vibrant creative entity. It’s a mantra many rock bands of today tend to give great lip service to, but often fail to deliver the goods to back up their lofty claims.
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