TRUE WIDOW Signs With RELAPSE RECORDS

January 8, 2013

TRUE WIDOW, the "reverb-drenched shoegaze" Dallas trio, has inked a deal with Relapse Records. The band is currently recording its new album at the Echo Lab in Argyle, Texas with producer Matt Pence (YUCK, JAY FARRAR) for a late spring release.

"Returning to the Echo Lab just made sense," explained TRUE WIDOW drummer Slim TX. "It's where the previous albums have been recorded and it feels like home. The same goes for working with Matt. He allowed us to stay true to ourselves on our self-titled album and develop the sounds that would become our cornerstone for everything that has followed."

TRUE WIDOW has released two previous albums: "True Widow" (2008) and "As High As The Highest Heavens And From The Center To The Circumference Of The Earth" (2011). Each release has built on the band's unique approach to the guitar-centric intersection of shoegaze and ambient pop, which the band self-described as "stonegaze," NPR described the band's sophomore release as "a warming headphone album for a bleak snowfall, moody and dreamy chords crushed by a rumbling low-end," Decibel magazine said the album is "a droning, strung-out record that is, frankly, almost perfect" and All Music said TRUE WIDOW's guitar sound is "not so much detuned as it is shuddering."

The band will take a brief break from recording as they head out on a handful of dates this month.

TRUE WIDOW is DH Phillips (guitar/vocals),Nicole Estill (bass/vocals) and Slim TX (drums).

Photo credit: Mike White

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