WAAX Set To Release Debut Album 'Big Grief' This August

Brisbane rockers WAAX have just revealed their debut album, Big Grief, will be released this August. 

Due for release on 23 August via Dew Process/Universal Music Australia, the album was recorded over a number of sessions in 2018 with Powderfinger frontman Bernard Fanning and Grammy-winning Nick DiDia (Bruce Springsteen, Rage Against The Machine, Pearl Jam).

Speaking about the album, singer-songwriter Maz DeVita said, “The whole album is about grief for so many things that I felt when we were writing the record and still do now. 

"The way the world is so volatile at the moment, our environment, I talk about anxiety, mania, cutting ties with old friends and habits, my problems in the past with body image, and it’s almost like a big mourning for all that. 

"It’s definitely an outpouring of grief in every sense of the word. But as much as I explored darker themes for Big Grief, I framed my melodies and vocal very colourfully and lively.”

The band have partnered the news with the release of a new clip for current single I Am, directed by Jeremy Hancock and Marty Moynihan.

Check it out below. 

WAAX are set to tour on the back of the release of I Am this August. Tickets are on sale now; scroll down to theGuide for all the details.

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