tenebrous LIAR to release new album, “Hell Never Called” on March 7th
Hell Never Called will be released on March 7th via all digital platforms and as a limited edition of 113 numbered vinyl copies available via bandcamp and at the album release shows. The album is pressed on 180g clear vinyl, each copy ships with an original Steve Gullick darkroom print of the cover image, each print is slightly different; Gullick has made the individual prints into a dancing landscape to accompany the intro to the opening track, Soulcracker.
For the best part of two decades eminent music photographer, Steve Gullick has steered this artful, brutal, yet simultaneously beautiful musical project through to the release of its ninth album. Following the band’s last full length release, The Cut (2017), Gullick retreated from full on amplification & made two critically acclaimed, cinematic, classical tinged albums with James Johnston (Gallon Drunk / PJ Harvey / Bad Seeds), We Travel Time (2021) and Everybody’s Sunset (2022)
In January 2023, Gullick and bass player Brendan Casey got together to discuss the next steps in the life of tenebrous LIAR, both had a desire to invite some fresh blood to join them & drummer Ben Edgar, in order to expand the sound and axis the trio had created with The Cut. Multi instrumentalist Aimee Lovric was asked to join & accepted the invitation. The quartet got to work immediately, rehearsing the live set quickly developed into the creation of new material.
Hell Never Called pulls together a mix of songs built from rehearsal room improvisations, meticulously rehearsed studio recordings and home recordings.
Gullick - “When we started writing, I was obsessed with the 1970 Dutch concert film ‘Stamping Ground’, it’s visually spellbinding and the performances are incredible, I just couldn’t get Jefferson Airplane and Santana out of my head… Aimee’s guitar work is really soulful and freeing, along with Bren and Ben, she keeps everything solid allowing me the space to really let rip.”
To celebrate the album release, tenebrous LIAR will play two shows with good friends, Index For Working Musik and Compliance Unit.
March 7th / The Waiting Room, London
'Hell Never Called' is out March 7th and pre-order the album from Bandcamp. Watch the video for The Waves.
Track Listing
Soulcracker
Thirteen
The Waves
Fourteen
The Farmer
What Am I?
The Terror
Collision
It Cuts Out
The Nightshift
Tattooed Hearts
Band Members
Steve Gullick / Vocals, guitar, piano.
(…Bender / James Johnston - Best known for his extensive photographic work with Nirvana, PJ Harvey, Nick Cave, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Cat Power etc)
Brendan Casey / Bass, vocals
(Resurrection Men, Big Sugars, Gunther Prague)
Aimee Lovric / Guitar, vocals, piano, organ
(singer/songwriter)
Ben Edgar / Drums
(Nobody and the Lonelies, Harmonic Exchange)
About The Songs
Gullick - “The Waves is a rehearsal room improvisation, I asked Bren to pluck a solid original baseline out of thin air, I’m always putting him on the spot… “something as iconic as Pop Crimes”… “Think Jah Wobble meets Martyn P Casey”, he delivered. Aimee gave it soul & Ben’s drums kept it rolling. Aimee told me she’d taken to singing along to it in the car, so we added her surreal vocal, I’m massively happy to have her voice on this album”
Casey - “Thirteen - We have always liked the idea of trying our hand at concise strange pop orientated songs, there are examples of this throughout the tenebrous LIAR catalogue, I personally think this is one of our best attempts; it’s my favourite yet.”
Gullick - “What Am I? has actually been knocking around for years, it was first recorded in 2012 during our End Of The Road album session, we regularly played it live, but it never felt right for a record until now. Aimee was on the studio grand piano, we started playing the song, tentatively listening to each other, we’d never played it this way before, I think we were all rather taken aback by what we were hearing. I did a rough mix & sent it to my friend, the composer Anthony Baden Saggers (Stray Ghost), he loved it & instantly offered to add strings”
Casey - “It Cut’s Out was built around Steve's 4-track demo, Aimee & I went over; the plan was to subtly embellish the sound, we were keen to create atmosphere, whilst preserving the fragility”
Gullick - “Tattooed Hearts evolved from a one minute demo on which I was trying to emulate the guitar playing of Mick Turner, the song felt special, it took on new meaning through the death of a good friend. As a band we evolved it into a nine minute two chord monster that builds into an apocalyptic epic sing-along, then collapses to close the album”
Casey - “Our last record, The Cut was the first to feature Steve as the sole guitar player, for Hell Never Called, we were interested in bringing in another player again, one with a whole different approach to our previous guitarists, I think the combination of Aimee and Steve's playing has made this record completely distinct from our previous releases and has produced some of our most fearless music yet.”
Tenebrous LIAR Discography
Tenebrous / Tenebrous (Fire Records) 2006
Tenebrous Mitchell / The Havering (Fire Records) 2007
Tenebrous / Liar (Fire Records) 2007
Tenebrous Liar’s Last Stand (TV Records) 2008
Tenebrous Liar / Jackknifed & Slaughtered (TV Records) 2010
Tenebrous Liar / Run Run Run (TV Records) 2011
Tenebrous Liar / End of the Road (TV Records) 2012
Tenebrous Liar / The Cut (Deathto) 2017
Tenebrous Liar / Hell Never Called (Deathto) 2025
