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Album Premiere: WILL WOOD RELEASES THE NEW ALBUM “In case I make it,”
Switchbitch Noise is excited to premiere the long-awaited album by avant-garde artist and alt comedian Will Wood entitled, ‘In case I make it,’ on Friday, July 29th. An album that has been in development for years, represents a major milestone in the artist’s catalog who not only wrote and self-produced the album, but also composed and arranged the parts for strings, horns, and for a number of tracks conducted a 16-person Bulgarian choir. The album is as we expect from a work of Will Wood, at times experimental, and at times a gentle and delicately composed Indie-Folk sound meticulously recorded and arranged. It contains the lyrical enigmas, twists, and turns that listeners crave, and with this new album, an introspection and intimacy from Will that we had never heard before.
Will Wood has changed as both an artist and a person, a stark contrast to the artist who released the “Normal Album” in 2020, and he is ready to tour, talk, laugh, cry, and then take a long hiatus when he thinks he’s done all he can do. An artist who is not active on social media, save for a bland Instagram page of announcements not run by himself, he’s been vocal against social media on multiple podcasts and written interviews over the past few months while promoting the dark, social media satire “You Liked This, (Okay, Computer)”. He’s poured his heart out into songs such as “Becoming the Last Names” and the dark humor of “Half Decade Hangover”, which has backing strings sounding drunk and lazy (which we love) that were created by the sound of a broken mellotron. The focus track of the album release is “Against the Kitchen Floor”, an emotional yet relatable piece, and perhaps how we all have felt at least once in our lives with such lyrics as:
I swear I’m really trying.
Get it together, Will, know and do better
It just don’t come natural to me to think
That you’d want me for me
I swear I’m really trying
I’m sorry, I promise, I’m doing my best
I just haven’t learned how to be human as you are yet
“In case I make it,” is a massive work, it is 73 minutes of soul searching, it is a chronicle of his relationships, his pets, and pests, past and present.
Listen to the entire album here:
Songs by Will Wood
Piano, uke, keys, percussion, Vox: Will Wood
Saxophones, clarinet, flute: Matt Berger
Drums, percussion: Mario Conte
Guitars, Lap Steel, Mandolin: Mike Bottiglieri
Basses: Vater Boris
Trumpet: Rob Schaefer
Trombone: Jim Hopson
Tuba: Gideon Juckes, Jim Hopson
Strings on Becoming the LastNames performed, recorded by Yoed Nir, arranged in collaboration with Will Wood
All other strings arranged by Will Wood, performed and recorded by Yoed Nir
Additional strings on “Euthanasia” performed and recorded by Annie Leeth
Choir: SOFIA SESSION ORCHESTRA & CHOIR w/ FOUR FOR MUSIC LTD
Arranged: Will Wood & Four For Music LTD
Team: Boris Radilov, George Strezov, Georgi Elenkov PhD, Ognyan Georgiev, Miroslava Ananieva, Tsvetan Topalov, Velislava Georgieva, Delyan Kolev, Deyan Velikov
Recording producer: Goerge Strezov
Engineers: Plamen Penchev, Vladislav Boyadzhiev, Angeliya Vihrova
Conductor: Georgi Elenkov PhD,
Piano: Zornitsa Genova
Produced by Will Wood
Recorded @ Backroom Studios – Simon Ficken
Piano @ Kawari Sound – Jon Maisto
Engineer: Simon Ficken
Piano engineer: Jon Maisto
Mixed/mastered: Kevin Antreassian
Sex, Drugs, Rock ‘n’ Roll master by Mike Lisa, mix Gabriel Francis, recorded by Will Wood & Jonathon Maisto
