Iain Woods returns with ambitious 'rocku-mocku-fuckumentary'

Woods describes Black Wax as a both a "rocku-mocku-fuckumentary" and "a kind of glittery I, Daniel Blake in a PVC catsuit," and says it's inspired by "classic 80's episodes of BBC Arena, MTV Behind the Music, Spinal Tap, humourless German arts documentaries and Chris Morris’s Jam. The teaser clip sees Woods singing Maria Grever's 1934 hit "What A Difference A Day Makes" while creating art in his bedroom.

Black Wax is a collaboration with filmmaker Tali Clarke and follows Woods through the making of his debut series psychologist.

“After the release of my debut album I set about working on the new video installations from that series, collating the relevant drawings, costumes and sculptural pieces for exhibition and trying to work on a new album that was all soft and jazzy and meant to be recorded in a luxury cabin in the Lake District," Woods tells us.

"Then I realised that I had bailiffs knocking the door and I was in the dole-queue and couldn’t afford food, like all the other DIY artists out there, and all against a backrop of Brexit and rising hate-crime and general civil unrest. And then I realised that the most tragicomic most important thing that was happening to me was precisely what needed to be documented, not some escape to the country bollocks. Black Wax is the result of that documentation process”

We also asked him to tell us when it'll drop but he was typically mysterious and cryptic so you'll just have to stay woke.