JAPANESE WALLPAPER
shares album track
‘TONGUE TIED’
+ New album ‘GLOW’ out Friday 18 October
+ NATIONAL TOUR IN OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER
+ TOURING NORTH AMERICA NOW WITH
ALLDAY AND MALLRAT
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Photo credit: Giulia Giannini McGauran
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“The creative bar is set high… It’s safe to say we can anticipate many more ingenious releases from Japanese Wallpaper.” – EARMILK
“..Japanese Wallpaper – creates a hazy, glittering aura that makes you wish it were the thick of summer and you were lazily road-tripping down the coast with all the windows down.” – PEDESTRIAN
“…damn excited for what’s bound to be a big year to come from a name we’ve definitely missed.” – PILERATS
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In the midst of a North American tour with Allday and Mallrat, Japan
Ablaze with dreamy synths, deeply felt lyrics and an aura of nostalgia, Tongue Tied is song about navigating and overcoming self doubt.
The new release follows on from Gab’s appearance on triple j’s Like A Version last week. Accompanied by Gretta Ray and Jess Day, Gab performed new single Imaginary Friends and an incandescent take of The O.C. Theme Song – Phantom Planet’s California.
Recorded in Atlanta with Grammy-winning producer Ben H. Allen (Walk the Moon, Animal Collective, Gnarls Barkley, Kaiser Chiefs, Cut Copy, Washed Out, Neon Indian) Glow is purposeful in its arrangement and a slight divergence from his prior strictly electronic base. Whimsical, yet wistful, textured but not overwhelming, the new LP fuses acoustic and electronic instrumentation with electric guitar riffs nestled into synth loops. Another artistic choice employed on Glow is the absence of featured singers — or rather, the emergence of Gab’s own voice.
Japanese Wallpaper originated after Gab first composed a string of songs in Garage band at the age of 15. After one of the tracks won triple j’s 2014 Unearthed High competition, Gab’s career was cemented: music was his destiny. While finishing high school, he worked on his 2016 self-titled-debut EP. On it, a pensive track called Breathe In caught the attention of Zach Braff who included the song on the soundtrack for Wish I Was Here. The EP went onto amass over 20 million streams and featured the likes of Airling, Pepa Knight, Wafia, Jesse Davidson and remixes from Yumi Zouma, UV boi, Elkkle, Anatoleto name a few.
Since the release, he has produced music for the likes of Mallrat, Holy Holy, Wafia, Eilish Gilligan, swim good now, Bec Sandridge and Allday, and gathered fans such as Flume, Gotye, Lily Allen, Nick Murphy, Rostam Batmangjil and Charli XCX who he remixed Need Ur Luv for.
A festival favourite, Gab’s appeared on stage at Splendour in the Grass, St Jerome’s Laneway, Secret Garden, The Plot, Beyond the Valley and more. Gab will be joined on tour by New Zealand’s Lontalius, with Gold Coast singer, songwriter and producer Montgomery opening the shows.
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JAPANESE WALLPAPER
‘GLOW’
NATIONAL TOUR
Tickets
Supported by triple j
Friday 25 October – Corner Hotel, Melbourne VIC
Friday 1 November – Sewing Room, Perth WA
Saturday 2 November – Lion Arts Factory, Adelaide SA
Friday 8 November – Oxford Art Factory, Sydney NSW
Saturday 9 November – The Brightside, Brisbane QLD
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NORTH AMERICAN TOUR
WITH ALLDAY + MALLRAT
Tickets
Wednesday 18 September – Subterranean, Chicago IL
Thursday 19 September – The Pike Room, Pontiac MI
Friday 20 September – Velvet Underground, Toronto ON
Sunday 22 September – Le Ministere, Montreal, MTL
Tuesday 24 September – Voltage Lounge, Philadephia PA
Thursday 26 September – C9, Washington DC
Friday 27 September – Middle East Upstairs, Cambridge MA
Saturday 28 September – Baby’s All Right, Brooklyn NY
Thursday 3 October – Fox Cabaret, Vancouver BC
Friday 4 October – Barboza, Seattle WA
Saturday 5 October – Holocene, Portland OR
Wednesday 9 October – The Echo, Los Angeles CA
Friday 11 October – Rickshaw Shop, San Francisco CA
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JAPANESE WALLPAPER
NEW SINGLE IMAGINARY FRIENDS – OUT NOW
NEW TRACK TONGUE TIED – OUT NOW
NEW ALBUM GLOW – OUT OCT 18| PRE ORDER HERE
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AMNPLIFY – DB
My nickname is “The Amnplifier”. Why? Because around here my focus is on being a conduit for providing greater outcomes that people come here for. My day to day “work” is living in the moment, and I love helping others concentrate on finding their connection to themselves through their experiences.
Why start a music environment? The truth is I love music, I love writing, and I love life. I work with musicians every day, and I feel certain that I will be until they put me in the ground. I have been managing people in businesses of some sort for over thirty five years so along the way I have developed some “wisdom” from my regular and constant “observations”.
Amnplify your experience. That is what we want you to do here, and if you want to let me know why you do, or don’t, shoot me a message on Facebook.
Hope you enjoy yourself here and find something that hits you somewhere.
