See Los Angeles-based songwriter
John Andrew Fredrick get unceremoniously pushed into a pool by a child
in music video for album’s “When We First Met”.
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John Andrew
Fredrick of the black watch as photographed by Steve Keros.
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the black watch – In The Press
“Should’ve become a household name a long time ago.” —
USA Today
“One of music’s most perfect and unheralded rock
outfits.” — MAGNET
“Salutes the great DIY pop canon and trophy hallways
of heroes.” — Impose
“Brimming with trademark wit and wisdom.” — PopMatters
“The Creation band Alan McGee never signed.” — Stereo Embers
“The Creation band Alan McGee never signed.” — Stereo Embers
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[YOUTUBE]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jce4WQLBihs
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Following up two releases in 2018, the April EP “The Paper Boats” and this past summer’s
triumphant new album Witches! – which John Andrew Fredrick has variously
described as “a dance record without drums” like “Syd Barrett fronting New
Order,” the black watch front man
has now announced the completion of Magic Johnson, the 17th the black watch album, expected to be
released in early 2019. The title is indeed, a tribute to Fredrick’s favorite basketball player.
“Quite a bit of Magic Johnson was written in London,”
Fredrick explains, “and per usual
for me it’s a reaction against the previous record in some way. Witches!
is very sparse and atmospheric and dreamy in a much more quiet and haunting
way, like middle-period Pink Floyd,
I think. Thus, Magic Johnson is a reaction against Witches! – a return to
drums and the full band and yet very raw, with not so many layers of guitars
but making each overdub really count. I always try to re-write ‘The White Album’ and of course I fail
every time. But Magic Johnson has some of our most beautiful and most dissonant
songs yet, so we shall see.”
With yet another album already in the can, Fredrick is now returning to the
promotion of Witches! and “The Paper
Boats” with the release of a fun, lo-fi music video
for the Witches! track “When We
First Met,” in addition to a short tour planned for the fall of 2018 (full
dates to be announced.)
About the music video, and the “assault by child” that
Fredrick bravely suffered in its
creation, he says, “I was on a beach camping holiday with my English friends, a
band called Damn Vandals, and Nev, their front man, lent me his
adorable son, Stan. We guerilla’d
our way into a Motel 6 and shot this video with me Charlie Chaplin-ing. You should have seen Stan’s eyes when Nev
told him he was to push me into the pool! Someone paying him in ice cream to
nudge a fully-dressed grown-up into the deep end?! Ace! I don’t love making
videos by any stretch, but Stan’s
overall glee and infectious laugh made it quite fun.”
Sixteen albums in, Fredrick is candid about his career, saying, “I reckon at this
stage you could call me an artist who has been driven a bit mad by incessant
creation. I know I cannot stop making things. Witches! is the work of a
wee bit mad person. A functioning one -- an over-functioning one! Aren’t we
all?”
“The Paper
Boats” EP and Witches!, the latest
releases by the black watch are out
now. John Andrew Fredrick is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom
at Fanatic for more information.
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“First one
to 16 full-length albums wins? Somebody give John Andrew Fredrick and the black
watch a prize.” – Buzzbands.la
Visit Buzzbands.la
or click here
to listen to “Georgette, Georgette”
from Witches!,
the 16th (!) album by the
black watch.
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the black watch
Witches!
(Atom Records)
Out Now
Track Listing:
01. Dances For Sad Footsteps Slow
02. When We First Met (VIDEO)
03. The Beginning of The End
04. Legerdemain (STREAM | MP3)
05. Graymalkin Comes
06. Georgette, Georgette (STREAM
| MP3)
07. From Hampstead Heath
08. The Weird Sisters
09. Ode To Spring
10. 1966 Or So
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the black watch
“The Paper Boats” EP
(The Eskimo Record Label)
Out Now
Track Listing:
01. The Paper Boats
02. Oh You Little Witch! (STREAM | MP3)
03. Jingle-Jangle Loop De Loop
04. Your So Dark Sleep/Goodbye (VIDEO)
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the black watch – Links
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