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ARTIST
TITLE
Four Five
FORMAT
3LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
WSR 073LP WSR 073LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
4/18/2025

45 songs to commemorate 45 years of Sweet Williams aka Thomas House. Patchwork quilt or collaged map, this is his weirdest, funniest and darkest record to date. Thomas House has been busy in the years since Sweet Williams' last LP. Tunes that grew from fragments on old tapes or came fully formed in dreams in the small hours. He was sending Wrong Speed Records a fistful of new songs every couple of weeks. Nobody knew where this was leading. There was a half-joke about House releasing his own version of The White Album. Bringing in neighbor Carl Jehle to co-produce, the pair spent last summer putting Four Five together in long, delirious sessions, stretching through the forty-plus mid-afternoon heat into the balmy small hours. More than a hundred songs were on the table. A significant chunk of the work was completed while House recovered from emergency dental surgery. The results, House says, can be taken as a whole "if you're mad enough," or as three separate LPs. What's clear is that a triple LP has afforded the possibility to stretch out in directions Sweet Williams have not previously explored. Tape loops and warped, sampled voices butt up against brief, punky earworms. Influences are either worn on sleeves or nigh impossible to discern. Ever present, as ever, are repetition, space, and the sputtering growl of petrol guitars. Four Five is a masterpiece. The perfect mix of spontaneity and obsession; of serendipity and sheer force of will. Not to mention maybe the only justifiable triple album ever made. FFO: Hood, GBV, Lungfish, The Breeders.