Evans The Death share the unnerving "Haunted Wheelchair" from new LP Vanilla

The London quintet are following up last year's Expect Delays with a stylistic curveball. Expect the unexpected.

The band's Dan Moss says of the album: “We deliberately booked very little time in the studio, and we pretty much did everything live, together in the room – there was no trying to fix any mistakes. What you hear is very close to what we did in that moment – so technically, while it isn’t overly polished or slick, it’s a very high fidelity recording – an accurate reproduction of the original source. I think that gives it more of an urgency and honesty than the first two. We decided to limit ourselves to 8 tracks and this meant we were restricted in how much we could alter things after recording, and the amount of overdubs we could do – which is what we wanted.”

Continuing about "Haunted Wheelchair", Moss adds: “I wasn’t getting enough sleep. Then before recording the song, while on my way to a party I got assaulted out of the blue, and I had to have surgery for a broken jaw. I used that incident to hang the lyrics on, but really it’s about that strange feeling I was already having anyway.”

"Haunted Wheelchair" is a scratchy, tangled cavalcade of psychedelic rock riffs, punk howls, and Krautrock-tinged rhythms. It's a beautiful ruckus with callous disregard for genre or convention, and although it sounds like it might fall apart at any second, this tantalising melee is another super-strong outing from Evans The Death.

Vanilla is out on 10 June via Fortuna POP!.

Listen to "Haunted Wheelchair" below.