Shannon And the Clams Release New Music Before Orbiting Australia This Week!
GET EXCITED AUSTRALIA! Our cosmic garage-psych feel-good friends Shannon and The Clams are set to land in Australia this week for a sonic odyssey around the country, and they’ve released a new song just in time!
Following on from their vibrant 2022 trek to our Southern seas from their homebase of California, USA, the stars have aligned once again with Shannon and The Clams ready to share their exciting and spirited album,The Moon Is In the Wrong Place, with their Australian fanbase.
And in hot rocket news… a freshly released track has just landed in time for the band’s Australian quest.
“Wax & String”, the new hard rocking, fuzzy single by Shannon and The Clams kicks off with driving rhythm guitar and vocals from guitarist Cody Blanchard. This energy was inspired by the song “Venus” by Shocking Blue, which brings acoustic guitar to the forefront. “Wax & String” explores the relationships between people and inanimate objects, and how we attach so much weight and meaning to them.
On top of the new song release, Shannon and The Clams will be releasing The Moon Is In the Wrong Place (Deluxe Edition) digital album on February 28 which will include the previously unreleased tracks “Wax & String” and “I’m A Fool”. These two tracks will be released on a limited edition 7″ vinyl through Easy Eye Sound.
“We love Australia and can’t wait to return for this very special journey Down Under where we can share our new album plus our newly released secret track with Clam Fans. The machines are waiting to press this new song on a limited edition 7” vinyl – our first 45 in ten years – which we are hoping will become a collectable treat in years to come. See you in Australia!”
Fans are advised to prepare to experience this previously unreleased track live for the first time on this planet.
“This song is about the way people attach deep meaning to inanimate objects. The ease with which we do this, how natural it is for us. The innate compulsion towards superstition, witchery, sacred objects, cursed objects. It’s in us. A teddy bear, a pocketknife, a weird rock, a sacred idol, garment.
In Aliens (1986), Ripley checks inside a filthy doll’s head for bad dreams to comfort an orphaned child. The child replies “it’s just a piece of plastic”. Which is true. But also it doesn’t matter. It was the only thing she had to comfort her after her parents died, and it helped.
In retrospect, I think this concept bubbled into my subconscious right after Joe (Shannon’s fiancé) died and I had to go into Joe and Shannon’s empty apartment to get something of his and water the plants that he left behind, because it was way too painful for Shannon to return yet. Going through his things feeling very shook up at seeing and touching the objects that belonged to him, that he used every day, that he intended to use again, things drenched in his psychic presence. The way they were left out or put away for the future. I didn’t really tell anyone about it at the time. Something about interacting with these things was very emotional in a way I did not expect. Unable to even comprehend what this would feel like for Shannon, the hard limits of my own emotional comprehension. My own small experience absolutely dwarfed by that.” – Cody Blanchard, Shannon and The Clams.
Music mainstays for 15 or so years, Shannon and The Clams are known for their vintage-infused, garage-psych sound. The Moon Is In the Wrong Place was produced by longtime collaborator Dan Auerbach (The Black Keys) and released on his Easy Eye Sound label in 2024, and marks the band’s 7th studio album together.
Experience good, colourful times in your orbit this month with Shannon and The Clams and feel the effects of these extraordinary live shows at the tail end of Mercury flying into retrograde.
LOVE POLICE PRESENT
SHANNON AND THE CLAMS
AUSTRALIAN TOUR
JANUARY
13 – Oxford Art Factory, Sydney, NSW with Gimmy
14 – Enmore Theatre, Sydney, NSW *supporting Sierra Ferrell
16 – The Forum, Melbourne, VIC *supporting Sierra Ferrell // SOLD OUT
17 – Barwon Club, Geelong, VIC with Bad Bangs and Public Figures
18 – Archie’s Creek Hotel, Archie’s Creek, VIC with Bad Bangs, Frenzee and Public Figures
19 – The Croxton, Melbourne, VIC with Cool Sounds and Cong Josie
21 – A & I Hall, Bangalow, NSW with The Schizophonics and Cupid & The Stupids
22 – The Triffid, Brisbane, QLD with The Schizophonics
