{"id":1983063,"date":"2025-08-27T18:54:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1983063"},"modified":"2025-08-27T18:54:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:54:48","slug":"divorce-share-surprise-deluxe-version-of-album-drive-to-goldenhammer-with-powerful-new-single-wendolene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/divorce-share-surprise-deluxe-version-of-album-drive-to-goldenhammer-with-powerful-new-single-wendolene\/","title":{"rendered":"Divorce share surprise deluxe version of album &#8216;Drive To Goldenhammer&#8217; with powerful new single &#8216;Wendolene&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/divorce\">Divorce<\/a> have surprise released a deluxe version of their debut album \u2018Drive To Goldenhammer\u2019. Check out the emotive new single \u2018Wendolene\u2019 below.<\/p>\n<p>The <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/the-cover\/divorce-03-03-2025-3842855\">former <em>NME Cover<\/em> stars<\/a> shared their debut record on March 7 via Gravity\/Capitol. It was recorded at Real World Studios in Wiltshire with producer Catherine Marks (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/boygenius\">Boygenius<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/foals\">Foals<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/wolf-alice\">Wolf Alice<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Now, the band have surprise released a deluxe edition of the album, which features three new songs: \u2018Wendoline\u2019, \u2018Chip\u2019, and \u2018O Calamity\u2019. The latter was <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/divorce-share-snapshot-of-our-past-on-beautiful-new-single-o-calamity-3880674\">shared last month<\/a> as their first new music since the album dropped.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_3856872\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3856872\" style=\"width: 2000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3856872\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Divorce. Credit: Ed Miles for NME<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The deluxe version also comes with early demos of the songs featured on the original tracklist, as well as BBC Radio Sessions. The latter includes a live cover of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/queen\">Queen<\/a>\u2018s classic\u00a0 \u2018I Want To Break Free\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn our debut album \u2018Drive to Goldenhammer\u2019, we sought to build a makeshift place and home within the songs and each other amidst the transience of our lives on the road over the last few years,\u201d said singer and guitarist Felix Mackenzie-Barrow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the \u2018Drive to Goldenhammer Deluxe Edition\u2019, along with live versions of some of the album tracks, you\u2019ll hear unreleased songs and demo recordings that landed somewhere on the outskirts of \u2018Goldenhammer\u2019, like \u2018O Calamity\u2019 and \u2018Chip\u2019 or \u2018Pretty Lights and \u2018Tiny Animals\u2019,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the music video for \u2018Windolene\u2019 below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Divorce - Wendolene (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MWwdWiKjJ84?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Speaking about that song, the band shared that the track captures them \u201cbeginning the journey onwards, towards wherever it is we feel we want to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Wendolene\u2019 hints at what lies beyond \u2018Drive to Goldenhammer\u2019, bridging a gap toward our next chapter,\u201d explained Mackenzie-Barrow. \u201cAnd whilst we tried to maintain the surrealism of the record, this edges into something darker than most of our debut record.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The singer continued: \u201cAlso, as a band we\u2019re obsessed with <em>Wallace And Gromit<\/em>, so this song pays homage through its title to <em>A Close Shave<\/em>, and if you have a sharp eye you may see a very niche reference to the film in the music video!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhilst we were recording we sung to pictures of Wendolene [<em>Wallace And Gromit<\/em> character] and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/cilla-black\">Cilla Black<\/a>, which I think if you listen carefully is very obvious in the vocal performance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Drive to Goldenhammer (Deluxe Edition)\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/5K9Fcx3HdhDrc0pOQ3tQzC?si=iNYCPcXgT2i-BGz3_f6N9w&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the start of the year Divorce <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/lists\/nme-100\/the-nme-100-essential-emerging-artists-for-2025-3834328\">appeared on this year\u2019s NME 100<\/a>, and they have spent the summer playing smashing the festival circuit. This month also saw them <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/the-maccabees-add-cmat-everything-everything-to-all-points-east-2025-line-up-3865670\">open for The Maccabees at All Points East in London<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/bombay-bicycle-club-announce-intimate-uk-warm-up-dates-before-all-points-east-2025-3846052\">support Bombay Bicycle Club at their shows in York and Liverpool<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Next month, they\u2019ll embark on a North American headline tour, before returning to the UK in November. Find tickets to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ticketmaster-uk.tm7559.net\/c\/2862475\/431519\/7559?sharedid=NME&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.co.uk%2Fdivorce-tickets%2Fartist%2F5421796\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UK shows here<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ticketmaster.evyy.net\/c\/2862475\/264167\/4272?sharedid=NME&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.com%2Fdivorce-tickets%2Fartist%2F3026866\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit here for US tickets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Divorce\u2019s 2025 headline shows are:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>SEPTEMBER<\/strong><br \/><strong>17 \u2013 The Rockwell, Somerville, MA, USA<\/strong><br \/><strong>18 \u2013 Elsewhere Zone 1, Kings County, NY, USA<\/strong><br \/><strong>19 \u2013 Pie Shop, Washington, DC, USA<\/strong><br \/><strong>20 \u2013 MilkBoy, Philadelphia, PA, USA<\/strong><br \/><strong>22 \u2013 The Sound Garage, Toronto, ON, CA<\/strong><br \/><strong>25 \u2013 Schubas, Chicago, IL, USA<\/strong><br \/><strong>27 \u2013 Baba Yaga, Seattle, WA, USA<\/strong><br \/><strong>29 \u2013 Brick &amp; Mortar Music Hall, San Francisco, CA, USA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>OCTOBER<\/strong><br \/><strong>2 \u2013 Gold-Diggers, Los Angeles, CA, USA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>NOVEMBER<\/strong><br \/><strong>28 \u2013 La Belle Angele, Edinburgh, UK<\/strong><br \/><strong>29 \u2013 The Grove, Newcastle, UK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>DECEMBER<\/strong><br \/><strong>3 \u2013 The Globe, Cardiff, UK<\/strong><br \/><strong>4 \u2013 Papillon, Southampton, UK<\/strong><br \/><strong>5 \u2013 Arts Centre, Norwich, UK<\/strong><br \/><strong>6 \u2013 The Lido, Margate, UK<\/strong><br \/><strong>9 \u2013 Crookes Social Club, Sheffield, UK<\/strong><br \/><strong>10 \u2013 Academy 2, Manchester, UK<\/strong><br \/><strong>11 \u2013 Trinity Centre, Bristol, UK<\/strong><br \/><strong>13 \u2013 Rock City, Nottingham, UK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This spring, the band <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/the-cover\/divorce-03-03-2025-3842855\">spoke to <em>NME<\/em> for <em>The Cover<\/em><\/a> and opened up about their time starting out in Nottingham\u2019s grassroots music scene with a \u201cself-sustaining\u201d community of artists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you don\u2019t get a lot of outside interest, you don\u2019t have much choice but to make it yourself,\u201d Mackenzie-Barrow said. \u201cSitting in the van on your way to a show and looking around at these friends that you have, sitting in the garden in the house where we wrote the songs, having dinner together. Those are the moments that feel like success.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('consent', 'revoke');\n  fbq('init', '370979561341328');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.nme.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Divorce have surprise released a deluxe version of their debut album \u2018Drive To Goldenhammer\u2019. 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