Wolf Games by The Wholly Smoked

“Wolf Games, the debut album-length release from The Wholly Smoked, a project undertaken by Australian jill-of-some-trades Harper Maitland (with production stretching from October 2021 to March 2023), takes an overly long step into the unkempt realm of genre-twisting, down-tuned indie rockers, space-y songstressing and turbulent tinnitus scares; all achieving a consistent inconsistency in this feature’s noise-polluted sea of sounds. Shake well and don’t forget to drink the pulp!”

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"Definitely a jump-right-in sort of album, Maitland's first steps into 'The Wholly Smoked' toddles into the world of electric love songs and jumps straight out the window; where the drums are choppy, the bass is muddy, the wolves play games, and the songs are varied enough to keep you on your toes"
- Mae Dupneam, 'Totally Reel Magazine'

"A welcome blend of wonky tunes and coarse noise that one could almost picture a guitar producing. Needs more reverb"
- Rael F. Akename , 'Tip Toe Scene'
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Tracklist

1.	Intro	0:14

2.	Shake Well	3:02

3.	She Refuses	2:54

4.	Confusing Heavy	2:40

5.	WMG	2:20

6.	Freaking Out	3:28

7.	Avant Hard-on	1:29

8.	Witch's Soup	3:29

9.	Exist/Hurt/Die	5:01

10.	Don't Be DST	1:08

11.	Game Of The Year	2:29

12.	Clean Season Jackets	3:49

13.	Wolf Games	2:29

Credits

released June 5, 2023

-The Wholly Smoked is-
Harper Maitland: vocals, drums, piano, synthesisers, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, fretted and fretless bass guitars, digital mellotron, melodica, korg volca beats drum machine on 'Exist / Hurt / Die', tiny violins and ocarina noises on 'Avant Hard-On', composing, lyricism, arranging, treatments, mixing.

All music and words by Harper Maitland (Except for 'WMG' [Page Alana 'Pagan' Maitland])

''Avant Hard-On" contains a treated, mixed-down melodic sample from "I Dreamed Of You In My Poison Coma" by Smams (0:27 & 0:55)

Font used on album art and related promotional material by Rafe Saltman on Fontstruct (Cheers!)

This album utilizes Wavosaur's 'Vst Speak' for synthesized speech and certain melodic synthesizer sounds (see the title track 'Wolf Games', completely constructed using VST Speak, minus the drums)

Worked on between 2021 > 2023

(Guitars used: ('Luna', 'George', 'Rigel', 'Viliame', 'Reagan', 'Doyle')

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