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Rock Spirit Absolute Joy

by WACO

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1.
Millionaire 02:59
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2.
The World 03:12
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3.
Elevation 03:43
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4.
Seventeen 03:22
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5.
Barry Gibb Was My Landlord 02:38
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6.
Better Place 04:09
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7.
The New Wave of British Denim 01:26
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8.
Next Romance 03:09
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9.
Hardships Will Happen 03:22
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10.
Flip Forever 03:26
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Reborn in a public bathroom With a bad head and a hangover And party balloon That reads “happy birthday” He’s got cheap makeup all over his face Memories of singing together Getting drunk and talking all night FLIP FOREVER I pray for one last endeavour And for you to be here tonight FLIP FOREVER Let’s listen to Killing Joke And let’s watch our favourite shows And talk about life We’ll go back to Coventry To see your friends and family But it’s not right Reborn in the back of a van Us four and Push-up Paul On the way to an empty concert hall We don’t make much money And only our friends come to see us play But you know I wouldn’t have it any other way FLIP FOREVER

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Consistently pushing the boundaries of punk as genre, Rock Spirit Absolute Joy sees WACO taking their “nothing is off the table” approach to genre experimentation from previous album Hope Rituals to another galaxy.

“We channelled all the things that we love about each other and love about rock music in this album,” explains frontman Jak Hutchcraft. “The album title, Rock Spirit Absolute Joy, is a good indicator of where our heads were at. We got the title from one of our fans, Mary, who had written those four words in the comments section of one of our music videos. It hit us like a ton of bricks. She’d bookended the phrase with lightning bolt emojis and it resonated with us in ways that I don’t think she anticipated. With that in mind, we then wrote these ten songs to celebrate life, communicate our emotions and be true to those four words and everything they meant.”

“Ultimately though, we wrote this album to further commemorate our beloved late bassist Chris Cowley and process our grief. He was all about rock, spirit and absolute joy. Chris, if you’re reading this, I hope we did you proud.”

Over the past 24 months the band continually defied the pandemic’s pitfalls and rounded out 2021 on a bumper string of live dates with Wife Swap USA, The Wildhearts, Snake Eyes and more. Winning over fans at any festival or support slot thanks to their diverse sound, WACO are time and time again proving just what a dedicated, indomitable, and hardworking force for good they are on the UK punk circuit.

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released September 2, 2022

Produced by Stephen Sears

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WACO London, UK

JAK HUTCHCRAFT
TOMMY PALLOT
WELSHY
JAMES ROBINSON
IAN CROOK

CHRIS COWLEY (RIP)

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