The Alarm's outstanding new album WAЯ is set for release this Friday, Feb. 26. I'll have a full-length review of the title in my next column, but here are the details about the forthcoming release...Robert Kinsler
Welsh rock legends The Alarm record new album in just 50 days; 'WAЯ' to be released on Friday, Feb. 26, 2021
Featuring guest appearance of Skindred's Benji Webbe on a cover of Massive Attack's 'Safe From Harm'
The Alarm / Photo credit: Andrew Labrow
The Alarm's brand new album WAЯ has been completed in order to be serviced around the world at midnight on Feb. 25/26 via the world's digital music suppliers. In order to combat production times and to have physical product available immediately, the band advance-released the album (without music) in a special CD-Rom format. Fans can then burn their own copy of the finished record. The album's writing and recording creative process only commenced on Jan. 7, 2021, but the band promised finished tracks will be sent electronically to fans once the final mix and mastering process took place.
Mike Peters of The Alarm.
Photo: Stuart Ling
WAЯ is also available to pre-order as a hand-cut vinyl LP and pre-loaded CD which will be released to fans on Feb. 25 (Alarm lead vocalist/guitarist Mike Peters' birthday).
Peters, along with band members James Stevenson (guitars) and Steve "Smiley" Barnard (drums) and producer George Williams completed the album from scratch using their own isolation studios. Peters' wife, Jules Jones Peters, documented the recording process and created a very incisive fly-on-the-wall vision of Mike Peters and The Alarm at work, sharing regular videos online at www.thealarm.com.
The Alarm has kept their fans entertained throughout the global pandemic, hosting weekly "Big Night In" broadcasts over the internet, all live from Mike and Jules Peters' living room; 23 shows have been transmitted so far, raising the spirts of more than 600,000 viewers who have been able to watch live interviews, acoustic performances from the Jukebox stage with rare and unseen Alarm videos.
For more information on The Alarm and the forthcoming album WAЯ, check out the band's official website HERE.
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