aaamusic | On 23, Sep 2010

Cover stars of this week’s Rock Sound magazine Japanese Voyeurs have just emerged from the studio after recording their debut album, due for release in early 2011. Ahead of their dates supportingAgainst Me and Fucked Up on their UK tour next month, they have unleashed a free download of one of the new recordings, album track ‘Smother Me’.

‘Smother Me’ can be downloaded here: www.myspace.com/japanesevoyeurs

Singer Romily Alice explains “We wanted to give away ‘Smother Me’ as an introduction to the record because it’s both brutally heavy yet very tender – it’s one of the slower tracks of the record influenced by some of the doom bands that we’re very into like Witchsorrow, The Melvins, Sloth and Earth.

“It feels good to finally let people hear something from the album. We had such an incredible time recording with GGGarth (The Melvins, RATM, The Jesus Lizard)in Canada and mixing with Alex Newport(ATD-I, Pissed Jeans, Male Bonding)in Brooklyn; just being able to work with such incredibly talented people was such a gift, so to have everything done and be able to start to let people hear it is a great feeling.”

Japanese Voyeurs will be playing the following shows:

Sept 26^th Gloucester, Underground Festival
Oct 22nd Southampton, Mo’ Live
Oct 24th Cardiff, Solus
Oct 25th Bristol, 02 Academy
Oct 26th Coventry, Kasbah
Oct 27th Glasgow, QMU
Oct 28th Nottingham, Rock City
Oct 29th Leeds, Met University
Oct 31st Plymouth, University
Nov 1st Cambridge, Junction
Nov 2nd Oxford, 02 Academy
Nov 3rd London, Electric Ballroom