{"title":"Sweet Williams","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"where-does-the-time-come-from","title":"Where Does The Time Come From","description":"\u003cp\u003eRumbling, angular post-punk for fans of: The For Carnation, Lungfish, The Breeders, My Bloody Valentine and Hey Colossus. The Sweet Williams on new album \u003ci\u003eWhere Does The Time Come From\u003c\/i\u003e is one Thomas House, a South coast native guitarist and songwriter whose bands have a habit of dissolving. This latest LP contains ten post-punk infused songs of an almost brutalist nature, House's music in its purest form, performed almost entirely by himself. The first single is \u003ci\u003eRide A Gold Snail,\u003c\/i\u003e a rumbling post-rock juggernaut that sets a backwards drum beat to a filthy, holding pattern bassline, with guitar amps on the verge of burning out and elliptical, elusive lyrics. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gringo","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50498440167755,"sku":"1072797","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50498439938379,"sku":"1072796","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/9bf25ebd-c069-4399-a62d-641c695ebc02_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727748173"},{"product_id":"four-five","title":"Four Five","description":"\u003cp\u003eFFO: Hood, GBV, Lungfish, The Breeders. 45 songs to commemorate 45 years of Sweet Williams aka Thomas House. Patchwork quilt or collaged map, this is his weirdest, funniest and darkest record to date.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThomas House has been busy in the two years since Sweet Williams' last LP. \"I got very nervous about playing live, so I stopped. Quit all the bands I was playing in, stayed at home in Zaragoza with the cat and made tunes between classes.\" Tunes that grew from fragments on old tapes or came fully formed in dreams in the small hours. He was sending us (Wrong Speed Records) a fistful of new songs every couple of weeks. Nobody knew where this was leading. There was a half-joke about House releasing his own version of The White Album, until another artist close to our hearts beat him to it. Then we realised: House turns forty-five in 2025. How about forty-five songs to celebrate? Bringing in neighbour Carl Jehle to co-produce, the pair spent last summer putting Four Five together in long, delirious sessions, stretching through the forty-plus midafternoon heat into the balmy small hours. More than a hundred songs were on the table. A significant chunk of the work was completed while House recovered from emergency dental surgery - \"the worst pain I have ever experienced\". The results, House says, can be taken as a whole \"if you're mad enough,\" or as three separate LPs. \"The first one's dark and dreamy, the second one's got all the short and funny songs, and the third one wraps it up. I don't wanna spoil the ending.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat's clear is that a triple LP has afforded the possibility to stretch out in directions Sweet Williams have not previously explored. Tape loops and warped, sampled voices butt up against brief, punky earworms. Influences are either worn on sleeves - PIL, The Amps, Beefheart - or nigh impossible to discern. Ever present, as ever, are repetition, space, and the sputtering growl of petrol guitars.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFour Five is a masterpiece. The perfect mix of spontaneity and obsession; of serendipity and sheer force of will. Not to mention maybe the only justifiable triple album ever made. \"I thought this might be the last one, obviously, but then again obviously not. I'm just getting started.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wrong Speed Records","offers":[{"title":"3LP","offer_id":51327211438411,"sku":"R3326-5990","price":44.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/sweetwilliamsWSR073.jpg?v=1740415176"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/sweet-williams.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}