Chartreuse - Morning Ritual

On their long-awaited debut album Morning Ritual, Chartreuse have found the light in the darkness, sifting through the ruins of an anxious age in order to fnd the hope in it
"There's a strange optimism in pulling all of your negative traits out, revising and
reviewing them, and then putting them back, in order," says Mike Wagstaff, of the
band's intricate, gorgeous songwriting.
Chartreuse resist easy defnition. The Black Country four-piece have been close
friends since they were at college. In 2013, Mike and Harriet Wilson started
playing folk music together ("We were not good at all," laughs Harriet), and a year
later, they added a rhythm section, with the addition of Mike's brother Rory on
drums and Perry Lovering on bass. Mike and Rory live together in Kidderminster
in the West Midlands, while Harriet and Perry live just ten minutes away. They are
very close friends and the songwriting is an extension of this intimacy. Their
songs might fnd Harriet singing Mike's lyrics, or vice versa. "It takes a lot of trust,
because the songs are not short of emotion," says Harriet.
Morning Ritual has been a long time coming, with Chartreuse honing their craft
over the course of four well- received EPs and the standalone 2022 single
'Satellites', a collaboration with Orlando Weeks. Having experimented with partly
producing their previous EPs, Mike stepped up as sole producer on 2021's 'Is It
Autumn Already?'. But they had big decisions to make. Should they build on the
tracks from the last EP, and turn it into a full-length album? Would they work with
a producer, or would Mike do it himself? They had more than enough new
material to start an album from scratch, and Mike was ready to produce it. The
framework for Morning Ritual was starting to take shape. "It was a natural
progression," says Perry.
HEADLINE TOUR:
6th November - Poetry Club, Glasgow, UK
8th November - YES Basement, Manchester, UK
10th November - Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds, UK
11th November - Castle & Falcon, Birmingham, UK
13th November - Rough Trade, Bristol, UK
16th November - Lafayette, London, UK
LP Tracks: All Seeing All The Time / Backstroke / Switch It On, Switch It Off /
Who Bites Down / Shield From Bedlam / Agitated / Never To Be Real / Whippet /
Morning Ritual / This Could Be Anything / Are You Looking For Something /
Sorcerer's Eyes
CD Tracks: All Seeing All The Time / Backstroke / Switch It On, Switch It Off /
Who Bites Down / Shield From Bedlam / Agitated / Never To Be Real / Whippet /
Morning Ritual / This Could Be Anything / Are You Looking For Something /
Sorcerer's Eyes

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