Wucan Share Video for Track “Pipe Dreams”

After diving headlong into the three-year creative process, heavy rockers Wucan will release their new album Axioms on August 29th via Long Branch Records. The new longplayer showcases the band’s characteristic artistic ingenuity while continuing the transformation first hinted at on its previous album Heretic Tongues and pushing those ideas even further.

Today sees the release of “Pipe Dreams,” the fourth single from Axioms. Singer Francis Tobolsky states:

“‘Pipe Dreams’ started as a jam session in the rehearsal room — based on a drum groove that [drummer] Phil just threw on the table, instantly pulling all of us in. It was the second song we wrote for the album, and it feels like a snapshot of where we were at that time. A driving beat, heavy guitars, and floating vocal harmonies explore the tension between disillusionment and hope. To me, this song also carries a warning: shared dreams require the support of the whole community.”

As is well known, true art is characterized above all by its constant renewal — a combination of the tried and tested with the innovative. Like nearly all influential acts in music history who have followed this golden rule, Wucan demonstrate their capacity for artistic evolution with their new album Axioms. On Axioms, the four-piece, led by frontwoman Francis Tobolsky, blends the distinctive elements of their previous studio records — Sow The Wind (2015), Reap The Storm (2017), and Heretic Tongues (2022) — with fresh ideas, resulting in a broader stylistic range and a more clearly defined conceptual approach.

In other words: While the band continues to reference hard rock, krautrock, East German rock, and metal, the eight new tracks are also infused with touches of progressive rock, isolated electronic elements, and a playful jazz attitude.

Wucan ‘Axioms’ album artwork

Or as Tobolsky aptly puts it:

“The foundation of our music is international ’70s hard rock enriched by contemporary influences — this time with even more bombast, brutality, and complexity.”

Axioms Track Listing:

1. Spectres Of Fear
2. Irons In The Fire
3. Wicked, Sick and Twisted
4. KTNSAX
5. Holz auf Holz
6. Pipe Dreams
7. Axioms
8. Fountain Of Youth