
What does an album mean anymore unless it has a narrative behind it? The new Real Tuesday Weld album The Last Werewolf takes Glen Duncan's novel as the backdrop for a widescreen emotional cabaret tailor-made for the iTunes generation. The book (also being released in the States on 7/12) incited a bidding war in the publishing world and has already been optioned for film rights by Ridley Scott. The album is both a high concept single piece and a diverse playlist for the eclectic of ear and heart, all in the band's own genre 'Antique Beat.' The book's themes of violence, friendship, transformation, love and betrayal are recast as a suite of songs bound together in a soundtrack by voices and readings from the text.