Stealing Sheep
Stealing Sheep announce new album Wow Machine, a special commission album inspired by electronic music’s female pioneers that takes a deep dive into the realms of electronics, sampling, splicing, looping and reversing. Due for release on the 24th June via Both Sides Records, a new label set up as part of the Brighter Sounds Gender Equality program.
Photo credit: Holly Whitaker
The album will be released on Both Sides Records as a special commission. Both Sides Records is a new label, which grew out of the work of the Manchester based charity, Brighter Sound and their innovative Both Sides Now programme, a ground-breaking gender equality initiative and their most recent event, All Thing Equal, where the charity created a Manifesto calling for gender equality across the Music industry. With the support of Brighter Sound, Both Sides records continue to create opportunities for women and marginalised genders and celebrate music coming out of the North of England.
With the release of first single taken from the album Never Gonna Live Up the band comment on the project as whole explaining: "We’ve been inspired by the 'Sisters With Transistors', a group of radical women, who used technology to push the boundaries of music. Without the representation of these musicians, we would have struggled to picture ourselves in these roles."
"The music was written in our home studios and came to life as a live installation at the Great Exhibition of the North with a mechanical light-up stage and robotic dance performers. This had a big impact on how we wrote the music as we created a listening experience that is intended to transport an audience and take them on a journey".
Wow Machine artwork by Szeyan @ Barbarian Flower
