Description:	7" on Moshi Moshi
	Format:	7" (vinyl)
	Genre(s):	Indie Pop
	Label:	Moshi Moshi
	Price:	£4.09
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

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...according to our Brett on 15 April 2009.

After about twenty seconds of 'If You Leave It Alone' Brian said "This must be The Wave Pictures". Any band who can be recognised so quickly and easily in this blasted age of postmodern bloody homogeny must be doing something totally right so hats off to this Hefner-esque band of bards. It's proper old school naval-gazing indie that's even got the lyrics on the back so you can learn them all by rote, push your way to the front of their shows and sway around mouthing them all entranced like. That Stanley Brinks man appears on the lead tune and the B-side was written by Jack Lewis, apparently Jeffrey's brother. Cool!

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What their label says...

OVERVIEW: Bravely mining the lost essence of British Indie, The Wave Pictures were critically lauded last year for their debut album Instant Coffee Baby.  Short listed for The Guardian ‘New Album Award’ and included in Plan B’s ‘Albums of 2008’, their seductively shabby love songs evoking the grubby romance of youth won them fans amongst public and critics alike.  

New album If You Leave It Alone is preceded by the release of the title track on April 13th.   If You Leave It Alone is described by frontman and lyricist Dave Tattersall as “ a good, long sad song in which, amongst other things, I describe the contents of my fridge”.   The single is backed by a new song, Polar Bear.  

The single, which kicks off the album and defines what Tattersall describes as “an acoustic guitar album”, was one of twelve songs recorded during the album sessions in Berlin - “recorded live in one big session, over a period of maybe twelve hours…there was a lot of drinking and we just wanted to keep playing songs”.  

 If You Leave It Alone embraces a “very proper, very old fashioned way of recording”, cutting back on the electric arrangements of their debut, favouring horns and finger picking and placing a renewed focus on story telling.