The Vapors - Wasp in a Jar

The Vapors  - Wasp in a Jar 

Label: Vapors Own Records - 5037300530840
Format: LP, Album, Black
Country: UK
Released: 28th Feb 2025
Genre: New wave
Style: New wave

Description

With all songs written by the band over the past year or so, the album was recorded and produced by Michael Giblin (The Split Squad) at Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania in Sep 24 and mastered at Rare Form Mastering by Greg Reierson, Like all three previous Vapors releases, this album conveys an individual feeling of it's own, both lyrically and musically. The title derives from a line in the song "Forever and Ever" but it also describes perfectly the high velocity, guitar and bass, heavy punked up tempo that runs through a number of the songs, whilst conjuring up an image of bottled-up anger that runs through a number of the album's lyrics. Best known for their major worldwide 1980 hit "Turning Japanese", The Vapors originally split in 1981 after two short years producing six singles, two albums, three major US tours and an Australian tour, and countless shows in the UK. After a 35-year hiatus, the band reformed for a series of four shows in Ireland and England in 2016 which were so well recieved that they continue to tour extensively, with over 160 gigs played since, with a comeback album "Together", in 2020 and several singles released along the way.