The Wave Pictures

The Wave Pictures fashion their touchstones into new shapes: rapid-fire surf-pop, sleazy garage blues, tender slow-burners full of weeping guitars. Tattersall’s playing remains immediately distinctive, incorporating desert rock and spiky proto-punk, sometimes sounding like both Television guitarists at once. From Proustian throbs of memory to blazing solos, “Gained/Lost” is accessible, varied, and endlessly rewarding—another bright star in their constellation.

The Wave Pictures return with “The House Painted Blue,” a surrealist pop masterpiece from their upcoming album Gained / Lost, out 27th February via Bella Union. Blending Allman Brothers-style guitars with Kafkaesque lyricism, the track captures a weightless, joyful depth. Following a sold-out London show, the trio will embark on an extensive UK and European tour throughout the spring.

The Wave Pictures have shared their charming new single “Sure and Steady,” a nostalgic track described by the band as being like “Lou Reed if he’d grown up in the East Midlands.” It serves as the latest preview of their upcoming album Gained / Lost, arriving on 27th February via Bella Union. Recorded live and unfiltered, the LP blends 60s garage rock and distinct lyricism with the trio’s signature wit.

The Wave Pictures will release their new album, Gained / Lost, on 27th February 2026 via new label Bella Union. They’ve shared the first single, “Alice,” a “swooning beauty” inspired by the dream journals of William Burroughs. The band says that if the song were a movie, it would have been directed by David Lynch.

These songs are funny, sad, hopeful and mordant, and they are always melodically satisfying and musically accomplished. More than twenty albums into their career The Wave Pictures are producing their best and most stylistically varied work.

Watch ‘Blink The Sun’, the fourth and final in a series of videos/tracks heralding The Wave Pictures’ forthcoming double album ‘When The Purple Emperor Spreads His Wings’, due for 20 May release on Moshi Moshi and supported by a UK Tour.

Listen in full to The Wave Pictures “Winter” EP; five songs that make up the next instalment from their forthcoming double album “When The Purple Emperor Spreads His Wings”, set for release in May and supported by a UK Tour.

Taken from their new forthcoming double album, watch ‘This Heart of Mine’, the new video from The Wave Pictures – it’s a gorgeous audio-visual delight and a reminder of how great it is to have them back.

Since their debut in 2003, The Wave Pictures have been releasing albums at the rate of more than one a year and Brushes With Happiness is another winner, an album of raw emotion and even rawer musicianship from one of the UK’s most underrated bands. 

The Wave Pictures announce the release of Canvey Island Baby, an exclusive 10″ on Madrid-based label Acuarela. A tribute to the legendary Wilko Johnson, mythical founder of the rhythm and blues band Dr. Feelgood.

We have the great pleasure of bringing you an exclusive first listen of the new album from Stanley Brinks and The Wave Pictures. Listen to ‘My Ass’ in full before its release this Friday 2nd October.

Stanley Brinks & The Wave Pictures’ latest offering, ‘My Ass’, is a powerfully honest album which, when played back-to-back with Gin, creates an almost perfect soundtrack to the humdrum, everyday existence of many people, to the ups and downs of lives lived to the fullest extent possible and, for that alone it is definitely something to be cherished.