Adult Jazz announce their first full-length album in a decade, So Sorry So Slow

"We recorded the cello and guitar together at Konk, with no-metronome, to get a loose shifting rhythm - then spent time adding splashes of other things in the studio. The final stage was Owen Pallett’s string arrangement, and viola + violin playing. We’ve been listening to Owen’s music since we were 15, and have always admired their songwriting so we were incredibly honoured they were up for it. The strings lent this final surge of energy that helped us feel it was done," the band says of the new song.

"The song itself is about romance and seeking connection- and the sometimes terror baked into that. It was one of the earlier tracks the lyrics were completed on, and it ends with a bit of pathetic fallacy indulgence, which I think in hindsight teed up a lot of the conflation of the personal with the ecological in the rest of the record."

Recorded in bursts at studios across London and in the band members’ flats, at Konk, on the Isle of Wight and in Sussex, So Sorry So Slow is the band's first album in ten years.

“We started writing in 2017 and began recording in 2018,” says vocalist Harry Burgess. “We genuinely thought it might be finished in 2018! But things kept developing and, having resolutely not struck while the iron was hot, there was no real external push to rush things after that, so we just kept letting things shift and unfold until it felt right. Listening back to my voice notes it’s nice to notice that there are fragments of ideas from the whole period 2017-2023 which have shaped the record.”

The band are also set to play a run of UK shows this October with dates in Glasgow, Leeds and London.

Tracklist:

1. Bleat Melisma
2. Suffer One
3. y-rod
4. No Relief
5. Plenary
6. Marquee
7. Dusk Song
8. Earth of Woems
9. No Sentry
10. Ben
11. I Was Surprised
12. Windfarm