Following the success of last year’s Walks, Group Listening‘s first album of original compositions rather than interpretations and reworkings, the duo of Stephen Black and Paul Jones crack on in that vein with Tell Everyone Everything, a new 12″ release comprising of three pieces.
The title track is out today, and informed by decay, expiration and musical renewal, a hypnotic electronic bed with cool woodwind, funky and cyclical keys building, building.
“The title comes from a music festival that happened a few years back in Bristol. A really small DIY festival, called Tell Everyone Everything. I really liked the title – so I stole it. The name stuck in my mind as something very open and positive – a radical action. It could be taken as a proposal for progressive change, or a revolutionary art manifesto,” explains Paul Jones.
The release features Tell Anyone Anything remix by Ancient Plastix who the duo toured with in 2024, and Loggsplitter. The band were delighted with the results: “I loved watching Ancient Plastix every night and was thrilled when he agreed to remix our song. It turned out great too”, says Stephen Black.
Of the Loggsplitter The Dichotomy of Telling Everyone Everything remix Paul says: “It’s like a hot blast of compressed air travelling across the downs from a ravers airhorn. Lush.”
“The cover art is a photo that I took a long time ago somewhere on a beach in Sir Benfro (in Pembrokeshire). The colours are all weird because it was taken on a very expired roll of Kodachrome. It’s sort of eerie. The bucket and spade had just been left there. It was one of the last ever rolls of Kodachrome to be processed, I snuck it into the developers on the last month they were still open, just before the very last processing plant was shut down forever.”
The Tell Everyone Everything 12″ vinyl is released on 18 April via PRAH Recordings.
Photo credit: H Hawkline
