Psychologist: Momentum
Momentum Music Fund Recipient 2013
Psychologist is an experimental pop-music project started by Iain Woods. After starting to write and record demos at home on an 8-track as a teenager, Woods then moved to Brighton to attend Art School. It was here that his interest in the possibility of ‘popmusic as fine-art’ was honed. For his degree show at Brighton School of Art, Woods self-released his Stanislavsky EP – which went on that summer to be picked up by BBC radio and to win him Channel 4’s ‘New Music Talent’ award. After a year of gigging in and around London and receiving an enormous amount of attention, he eventually signed to Moshi Moshi imprint Not Even Records to release his two-part Epidural Collection in 2011. Woods chose to take his time to record his debut full-length LP. spending 2012 recording his debut and 2013 mixing and creating the videos and artwork. The record is an intense and energetic romp through the human psyche. Woods has said ‘It’s basically a thank you letter to all of the great albums that looked after me as a teenager – and it’s very much an ode to that time in our lives’. The album will be released in early 2014.
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Psychologist will use the generous grant supplied by Momentum Fund to execute the first leg of his debut album campaign. The videos and artwork for the first two singles, which will be released in January & March 2014 respectively, will be made possible thanks to the funding.
“This award could not have come at a more convenient time; right at the outset of the campaign for my debut album, it will allow for a level of autonomy and creative control that I would in no way be able to afford on my own budget, I cannot thank PRSF & Momentum enough.”