Jaws The Shark announces debut album Wasteland, releases new single

Jaws The Shark has announced his debut album Wasteland.

The musician – real name Olly Bailey – will be releasing the record on July 19, and he reveals that it’s “an album that I’d been wanting to write for some time now, and one that I’m really proud of personally.

“Some of the tracks that I write wouldn’t necessarily be put into the Jaws The Shark category when you look back at what I’ve released previously, but I wanted this album to show off some of my versatility that I like to explore when writing songs.”

To coincide with the announcement, JTS has also unveiled new single California, which was “one of the last tracks I wrote for the record – it was one of those ones that just sprung out of nowhere and fell into my lap one day. I had a friend that moved from the UK to the U.S. and in doing so it meant that her long-term relationship collapsed. I wrote the track with that scenario in mind and wanted to write each verse from both people’s perspectives, from the one doing the breaking up and the one being broken up with. In the end after some time had passed, they both realised that it was actually for the best for both of them.”

Watch the video for California below:

Catch Jaws The Shark live at the following dates:

March

21 London Notting Hill Arts Club
22 Manchester Off The Square
23 Bristol The Lanes

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