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Delighted to welcome the brilliant Wombo to Oxford on their first UK tour! The band - from Louisville, Kentucky - will be playing a show with The Breeders (!) and then headed out on a tour of the UK and Europe in support of their amazing album from last year Fairy Rust, a new expanded deluxe version of which is out today on Fire Talk Records.

'Fairy Rust & Selected Demos' pulls together nine sketches, demos and fully fledged ideas that showcase the band's recording process and act as a perfect companion piece to an album that Paste compliments the ?thumping bass line and Chadwick?s gauzy vocals? and the FADER calles ?a trove of dreams and secrets?.

The band elaborates "Fairy Rust Deluxe includes low-fi demos and iphone recordings from the very beginning stages of writing Fairy Rust. These recordings make you feel like you were in the basement where these songs were dreamt up. Full of mistakes and different directions that we could have taken the songs but didn't, these demos give you another look into the wombo world."

?Fairy Rust,? the new album from Wombo (Sydney Chadwick, Cameron Lowe, Joel Taylor), contemplates the spaces in-between, a meeting of the physicality of the land with the fluidity of the imagination, to uncanny effect. Across twelve tracks, sharpened guitar work, distorted freakouts and downtempo musings see the trio make a sonic leap forward into new and transformative places. Conceived over the course of the last two years, the record is steeped in its own time warp of escapism, and influenced by fairytales like the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Anderson (?RVW? is short for ?Rip Van Winkle?) that blend surreal situations with the mundane. ?Fairy Rust? plays on this preoccupation with fantasy (?especially in a time where people are seeming to gravitate towards these kinds of stories?), and the resulting record sounds like no one else.

Wombo stresses that the unknown is key to the ongoing journey of self-discovery. The future cannot be predicted, and ambiguity should be understood as a crucial part of life. According to Chadwick, ?endings are always beyond my level of understanding or comprehending, or knowing at all. I wanted to end the album with that kind of message, that the mysteries in life are not to be solved but experienced and respected, to be kept at a distance.? With Fairy Rust the band presents one moment of fragile time that reverberates throughout human experience.

Supports are TBC, but will be great. The show will be 18+, and unfortunately the venue room is up a flight of stairs so is not wheelchair accessible, but let us know if you have any access requirements we can help with, or if you need a free carer ticket.

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56 Walton Street,

Oxford,

Oxfordshire,

England,

OX2 6AZ.