{"id":37084,"date":"2020-11-18T22:18:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T12:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.valverecords.com.au\/shop\/?post_type=product&#038;p=37084"},"modified":"2023-03-01T07:36:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T21:36:35","slug":"the-stress-of-leisure-album-faux-wave-on-cd","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.valverecords.com.au\/shop\/product\/the-stress-of-leisure-album-faux-wave-on-cd\/","title":{"rendered":"THE STRESS OF LEISURE album FAUX WAVE on CD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>The Stress of Leisure manifesto for a<em> Faux Wave<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><em>\u2018Songs can jerk and jump like stiff-legged robots in flowerpot hats, run headlong into the water like pale artschool students discovering surf and sun, or throw themselves at the nearest body with joyful abandon.\u2019 \u2014\u00a0<strong>Bernard Zuel<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Stress of Leisure returns with their new album, <em>Faux Wave<\/em>, via their own imprint Slack Action.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><strong>The Stress of Leisure manifesto for a<em> Faux Wave<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div>For <em>Faux Wave<\/em>, the Brisbane four-piece decamped to Melbourne to record over five days in February \u2014 just before Covid-19 took hold of the world. The album finds the band activating their hot core, with the pre-lockdown tension of faux-everything pervading everything. The band was really excited to work with John Lee (Laura Jean, Lost Animal, Bananagun) at Phaedra Studios, as his name kept popping up on Australian records well-loved by the group.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Since their 2017 release, Eruption Bounce, the quartet has traversed Australia supporting friends Regurgitator and Custard on national tours. Along the way, they\u2019ve also shared the stage with Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds, Shonen Knife, and Pavement co-founder Spiral Stairs. They\u2019ve constantly gigged Brisbane and beyond.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em>Faux Wave<\/em> is a term unique to The Stress of Leisure. The music isn\u2019t punk, it isn\u2019t entirely post-punk, it isn\u2019t new wave or indeed no wave; it is Faux Wave. Hypercapitalism distilled down to 10 tracks, the futility palpable. Ian Powne (guitars\/vocals) and Pascalle Burton (keys\/synths) work their idiosyncratic majestic on top of a hotbed provided by the (yet to be proclaimed) best rhythm section in Oceania, Jane Elliott (bass) and Jessica Moore (drums). Resistance is unnecessary to propulsive tracks, such as <em>Your Type Of Music<\/em> and <em>Banker on TV<\/em>, which simultaneously illustrate how perfectly this oddly foursome tick. <em>Silent Partner Jam<\/em>, written prior to the pandemic, could prove to be an ode to 2020, with its dark esoteric grandeur.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><strong><em>Faux Wave<\/em> is out Nov 13 on Slack Action as distributed by MGM. Stream\/Purchase your life away here: <\/strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/ffm.to\/fauxwave\">https:\/\/ffm.to\/fauxwave<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thestressofleisure.bandcamp.com\/\">thestressofleisure.bandcamp.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thestressofleisure.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">thestressofleisure.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheStressOfLeisure\/\">www.facebook.com\/TheStressOfLeisure<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thestressofleisure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.instagram.com\/thestressofleisure<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>BANKER ON TV<\/strong> video guide <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/4MthnRevmuc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HERE<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stress of Leisure manifesto for a Faux Wave \u2018Songs can jerk and jump like stiff-legged robots in flowerpot hats, run headlong into the water like pale artschool students discovering surf and sun, or throw themselves at the nearest body with joyful abandon.\u2019 \u2014\u00a0Bernard Zuel The Stress of Leisure returns with their new album, Faux [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":37085,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[18],"product_tag":[55,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-37084","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-cd","7":"product_tag-album","8":"product_tag-the-stress-of-leisure","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"taxable","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valverecords.com.au\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/37084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valverecords.com.au\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valverecords.com.au\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valverecords.com.au\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valverecords.com.au\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valverecords.com.au\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=37084"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valverecords.com.au\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=37084"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valverecords.com.au\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=37084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}