Willie J Healey has shared new track ‘666 Kill’ as well as details of a new EP. It’s another addition to the list of esteemed releases put out by indie label Yala! Records, who have also worked with The Magic Gang, Yak and The Homesick.
The song, which is part of an EP with the same name, juxtaposes Healey’s sublime guitar playing with the haunting lyrics, “I saw the devil climb through the window, showed me my own death it was beautiful”.
Detailing the track, Willie J says, “I was trying to touch on different ideas I had at the time: weird things like planes going missing and an obsession with death, which sounds really depressing but at the time I found it really interesting. We all have weird little things that run across our minds and we generally don’t say them out loud. For good reason. But it felt like an exciting process to write in that style and not put a filter on it.”
The singer released his debut album People And Their Dogs last year, honing a woozy, blissed-out, slacker rock sound but has seemingly swapped tales of lazing around on a Sunday afternoon for demonic and gothic imagery.
The EP, impacting on 19 October via Yala! Records, is the product of the musician’s challenge to himself to complete a project without overthinking any part of the process. Lyrics would be written in the singer’s Oxfordshire bedroom before being transported to the garage to be recorded.
And you can see it for yourself when Willie J Healey plays;
OCTOBER
18 – Brighton, Concorde 2 (with Gaz Coombes)
19 – Bristol, Rough Trade (headline show)
20 – London, Moth Club (all ages matinee headline show)
22 – Hull, The Welly Club (with Gaz Coombes)
23 – Edinburgh, The Liquid Room (with Gaz Coombes)
24 – Newcastle, Riverside (with Gaz Coombes)
26 – Manchester, Academy 2 (with Gaz Coombes)
27 – Sheffield, Foundry (with Gaz Coombes)
28 – Nottingham, Rescue Rooms (with Gaz Coombes)
