The Wave Pictures

Celebrating the release of City Forgiveness, the bands new double album for Moshi Moshi, they had such a ball when they visited in September that a quick return was desired.

The band have performed at Indietracks and Long Division festivals, backed Jeffrey Lewis and Peter Stampfel on their recent tour and also took part in the celebrations at The Barbican for the 30th anniversary of the release of the Daniel Johnston album "Hi, How Are You?".

Last year, The Wave Pictures spent 6 weeks driving around America in a small van on tour with Allo Darlin'. The result of this trip is their fifth studio album - the double album City Forgiveness released on Moshi Moshi on October 21st.

We visited Hank Williams' house and Billy The Kid's grave, watched the Golden Gate bridge disappear into the clouds, and had our frisbee confiscated by a cop. We played some great shows together, and we became good friends, and we drove and we drove and we drove and we drove explains vocalist and lyricist Dave Tattersall.

Whilst they drove Tattersall scribbled in a notebook - anything that popped into my head and on his return found a few hundred crumpled well-travelled pages in at the bottom of my bag.

These crumpled notes formed the basis of City Forgiveness and in Wave Pictures typically prolific style, Tattersall wrote twenty songs in a very jet-lagged and confused week.

They clearly had a double album on their hands; not a concept album about America so much as a testament to the way that travel excites the imagination.

The Wave Pictures took a trip to Toe Rag Studios to record this exclusive footage of The Woods, taken from City Forgiveness. The song is Inspired by a myriad of touring experiences - both good and bad - visiting the Buddy Holly museum, playing pool with locals, sleeping on mattresses infested with the coocoons of black widow spiders...., its typical of Tattersalls wry observational style.

'It is an audacious move to release such a long album, but The Wave Pictures are on top of their game right now. Yes, City Forgiveness demands your time and attention, but it is very worth it.' - 8.5/10 The 405

'Yet another triumph of ramshackle magical realist indie rock.' - This Is Fake DIY

'Without doubt, this is a wildly entertaining travel diary in pure musical form.' - Bearded Magazine