WIREHEADS - "POTENTIALLY VENUS" LP

TENTH COURT: The gestalt rock and roll mutation that is Wireheads returns with their continued evolution of sonic mystery on their upcoming sixth album, Potentially Venus. The new album signifies the return from sabbatical for one the most prolific indie-rock bands to arise from the Antipodes in the past decade. After a few attempts to reconvene at studios in different parts of the country, Wireheads found themselves at the totally-analog Sound Recordings studio in February 2022 to record the new album with recording engineer and studio-owner Alex Bennett in Castlemaine, Victoria. The band skipped on a producer this time - after recording previous critically acclaimed albums ‘Lightning Ears’ & ‘Big Issues’ with producer Calvin Johnson of Beat Happening - however the end results of Potentially Venus are the most refined, inspired and sonically profound Wireheads to date. Since they cycloned out of Kaurna Country / Adelaide with an out-of-nowhere debut album in 2014’s The Late Great Wireheads (released on local label Format Records), Wireheads have become somewhat of a cult-like enigma throughout the globe. Starting out as a trio, they doubled in size for that first album. Led by Dom Trimboli, the loose ensemble kept stacking on new players and instruments for the consecutive albums to follow. In late 2014 the band released their first album for Tenth Court, the psych-laden cassette album Country Space Junk. Up next was a venture to Dub Narcotic Studio in Olympia, Washington to record with K Records owner and Beat Happening founder, Calvin Johnson, the result being Big Issues (2015), which procured the group avid fans throughout France & the US. Not one to shy away from an exorbitant undertaking, band leader Dom Trimboli wasted no time creating 4th album Arrive Alive (2016) which featured more than 20 performers from groups such as Fair Maiden, Bitch Prefect, Old Mate & Day Ravies, often making up their parts on the spot.