Four Five

FFO: Hood, GBV, Lungfish, The Breeders. 45 songs to commemorate 45 years of Sweet Williams aka Thomas House. Patchwork quilt or collaged map, this is his weirdest, funniest and darkest record to date. Thomas House has been busy in the two years since Sweet Williams' last LP. "I got very nervous about playing live, so I stopped. Quit all the bands I was playing in, stayed at home in Zaragoza with the cat and made tunes between classes." Tunes that grew from fragments on old tapes or came fully formed in dreams in the small hours. He was sending us (Wrong Speed Records) a fistful of new songs every couple of weeks. Nobody knew where this was leading. There was a half-joke about House releasing his own version of The White Album, until another artist close to our hearts beat him to it. Then we realised: House turns forty-five in 2025. How about forty-five songs to celebrate? Bringing in neighbour Carl Jehle to co-produce, the pair spent last summer putting Four Five together in