Wax Witches is psyched to announce a run of East Coast headline shows to launch his new album "Memory Painting", out now worldwide via Burger Records. The gigs will give Australian fans a chance to see the full "expanded" 4-piece line-up of the band, which has only just started playing live. Supporting fellow Burger Records alumni Twin Peaks [USA] in Sydney recently, Happy raved their set was "anthemic anarchy ... man, they killed it" while Twin Peaks themselves frothed they were "awesome".

"Memory Painting" is the third album in four years by Wax Witches, the project that originally began as a solo spin-off from mainman Alex Wall's first outfit, the good-time Australian garage-pop duo Bleeding Knees Club. Its lead-off single "Morning Flowers" premiered via Hero magazine [UK]. Upon the album's release, the Herald Sun compared it to "The Jesus & Mary Chain chain-smoking with Spiritualized", while themusic.com.au hailed it as "a bunch of shoegazey, lo-fi surfer gems that show how far a small-town misfit has come".

As with his previous album 2014's "Centre Of Your Universe", the songs on "Memory Painting" draw inspiration from Wall's adopted hometown of New York - housesitting for a friend in Williamsburg with a full home studio at his disposal, Alex locked himself away until the album took shape over a feverish recording period of just a couple of weeks. The tearaway energy of first single "Habit" owes its rush to Wall's surroundings - as he explains, "It's got this dark grimy sound and is short and fast and sexy, kinda like New York". And musically, "Memory Painting" sees Alex continue to broaden his scope, as has become his restless trademark on every Wax Witches record. There are still traces of his history - the debut album as Wax Witches, 2013's "Celebrity Beatings" was a lo-fi, snotty brat-punk missive while its follow-up, 2014's "Centre Of Your Universe" was a sonic sugar-rush - but the "Memory Painting" palette is vast, from the brash shoegaze grittiness of bad seed fable "Danny Delete" to the jangly dream-pop love letter "Morning Flowers". And as always, there's nods to some of Alex's current musical influences and obsessions, like the Spiritualized-esque gospel horns on "Closer To The Lord" and The Jesus & Mary Chain-based spiralling psych of "Honey Lies".

As well as clocking up time in the studio, Wax Witches amassed a huge amount of touring in the wake of "Centre Of Your Universe" - upon its release in mid-2014 he played a 13-date national USA trek with Drenge [UK], as well as East Coast sets at Burger Records' "Caravan Of Stars" tour and New York's CMJ festival. i-D magazine named him one of their "Best New Acts Found at CMJ". In late 2014 he undertook a massive 17-show Australian run that featured dates supporting Northeast Party House, plus slots at BIGSOUND and the Sounds Of The Suburbs festival.

At the start of 2015 Wax Witches raced to Europe for a frantic February tour, playing 22 gigs in 24 days. He followed that with shows at and around South by Southwest, and closed out The Observatory stage on the first day of Burger Records' huge Burgerama Four festival alongside Weezer, Ty Segall and FIDLAR. Alongside that he's played further Australian dates with The Garden, Twin Peaks, Thee Oh Sees, Step-Panther and Big White.