# Power Pop Boy Wonder WESLEY FULLER Releases New Single “Alamein Line” Ahead Of New Album

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- Published: 2023-08-10T16:00:00-05:00
- Author: Eugene Tierney

### **POWER POP BOY WONDER WESLEY FULLER RELEASES NEW SINGLE & VIDEO “ALAMEIN LINE” AHEAD OF NEW ALBUM**

#### **FULLER, WHO WAS ORIGINALLY ‘DISCOVERED’ IN 2015 BY LEGENDARY UK A&R MAN JAMES ENDEACOTT (THE STROKES, LIBERTINES) AND SIGNED TO HIS 1965 RECORDS LABEL, MIXES STUNNING BEATLES-STYLE POP MELODIES WITH THUMPING DISCO BEATS LIEK NO ONE SINCE JEFF LYNNE IN THE LATE ’70s**

**Cheersquad Records and Tapes** are super excited to release the infectious new
single for **Wesley Fuller,** ** ‘Alamein Line’**. Better known internationally 
than at home, Perth-born, Melbourne-based power pop boy wonder Fuller’s video and
single was premiered overnight by esteemed UK magazine **Shindig! **which is dedicated
to the same sort of esoteric pop and psych sounds that Wesley loves, and which has
been championing him from the start.

**[Wesley Fuller ‘Alamein Line’ – Video Premiere (Shindig Magazine)](https://ddec1-0-en-ctp.trendmicro.com:443/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2f%2ffacebook.us4.list%2dmanage.com%2ftrack%2fclick%3fu%3d7468cc72c4dbd0d828cf87a0a%26id%3d144ff0157c%26e%3d7f3088bce0&umid=9ee1f4d6-e628-4c3c-abbc-445a03c1aad2&auth=65a620fa4b6e2edf0405a6ed61dc7465231096cd-8fca31fba28b90f4ba85b7abd8d5e8aa34604217)**

Wesley was first discovered by legendary English A&R man **James Endeacott**, who
previously discovered **The Strokes** and **The Libertines**. Fuller signed to Endeacott’s**
Sony-UK** affiliated **1965 Records **label in 2015 and started making waves with
his 2016 EP _**Melvista**_ – which **Clash Magazine (UK)** called **“gloriously 
imaginative psych pop”**.

He cemented this early promise on his debut album _**Inner City Dream**_ – twelve
tracks of swirling psych, jangly pop and punchy, crunchy glam – around which he 
toured across the UK and Europe including an appearance at Spain’s iconic **Purple
Weekend** festival, garnering attention from the likes of the **NME** and **BBC6**
along the way.

**“Alamein Line”** is the second taste of Fuller’s forthcoming second album, following
the recent first single **“Back to Square One”**.

Wesley Fuller - ALAMEIN LINE (Official Video)

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Watch this video on YouTube

_Wesley Fuller – ALAMEIN LINE (Official Video)_

**‘Alamein Line’** is based on a suburban Melbourne train line, and in making the
video, Wesley wanted to make **_“one of those quintessentially Melbourne kinda clips,
hopefully in the same style as Skyhooks, Courtney Barnett etc.”_**

He says of the song: _**“At a house party in Hawthorn one night, I overheard a girl
on the phone to a friend. Her friend was on her way over but was running super late
as her train was delayed, and then she got off at the wrong station and was asking
for directions. During the conversation, she remarked “Oh I fucking hate the Alamein
Line”. I’d had a little melody stuck in my head for a while, so I put the lyrics‘
Alamein Line it’s a hell of time’ to it. Went home the next morning and constructed
the song around that theme.”**_  

Wesley Fuller - BACK TO SQUARE ONE (Official Video)

[⌊Wesley Fuller - BACK TO SQUARE ONE (Official Video)⌉⌊Wesley Fuller - BACK TO SQUARE
ONE (Official Video)⌉
Watch this video on YouTube

_Wesley Fuller – BACK TO SQUARE ONE (Official Video)_

Armed with his trusty white Gibson Flying V and his ain’t-no-square corkscrew hair,
Perth-born, Melbourne-based power pop boy wonder **Wesley Fuller **is a pop classicist
who is not afraid to mess with the classics. Mixing stunning **Beatles**-style pop
melodies with thumping disco beats like no one since **Jeff Lynne** in the late 
70s, and chucking in a crunchy big glam whomp and the boldest bubblegum colours 
heard this century, Fuller is the latest in a line of artists that goes back to **
Brian Wilson **and **Paul McCartney**; artists with a singular pop vision.

Add the likes of **Todd Rundgren** and **Emmit Rhodes** – as well as lesser known
geniuses **R. Stevie Moore** and Tommy Marolda of **The Toms**, all of whom would
more often than not lay that vision to tape in the studio by themselves – and you
get an idea of where Wesley’s head is at. You could maybe add the D’Addario brothers
of **The Lemon Twigs **to that list; in the Twigs you’ll find a handy contemporary
comparison point to what Wesley does.  

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Fuller first made a name for himself early in the second decade of the millennium,
up front of Perth power pop outfit **Hurricane Fighter Plane** (who took their name
from a wigged-out song by late ’60s Texan combo the Red Krayola). Hurricane Fighter
Plane made a handful of singles, including the brilliant Byrds-indebted “I Can’t
Win”.

Discovered online by legendary English A&R man **James Endeacott** (The Strokes,
The Libertines) who signed Wesley to his label Sony UK -affiliated label **1965 
Records**, Fuller moved to Melbourne where he met and worked with like- minded folk
like You Am I’s Davey Lane.

Soon he was making waves internationally with his 2016 EP_ _**_Melvista_** and his
2017 debut album _**Inner City Dream**_, around which he spent an extended period
of time touring Australia and in the UK and Europe.  Of course, at the start of 
the new decade, the world changed and Fuller’s ability to keep the momentum going
was lost.

_**“It was the late summer of 2019 and I’d just returned home to Melbourne after
a European Tour (and several months overseas following that). I’d just ended a long-
term relationship, and I’d never felt so disconnected from my friends in the Melbourne
music scene – having not played locally in almost a year.**_

**_“With no gigs booked, a second album still yet to be written and recorded and
so many old connections to try and rekindle, I knew that I was essentially starting
from scratch._** _**I’d lost all the momentum I’d built up in 2018, so I was back
to square one. It was time to get cracking on album #2!”**_

The result of that disconnect and of hours of isolated work throughout lockdown 
and beyond, Fuller’s second album is ready to go. **“Back to Square One”**, which
was the first taste of that new album, is a dazzlingly brilliant retro-futuristic
pop stomp, and a self-depreciating acknowledgment of the artist’s current whereabouts.
That self-depreciation is also punningly present in the title of the forthcoming
album, which will be announced soon.

Having recently played his first couple of shows for a few years, Wesley will soon
start playing out in earnest, in preparation for the new album’s early 2024 release.
He’s got some big musical promises to deliver on; after all, no one goes back to
square one with plans to stay there.

**Wesley Fuller’s “Alamein Train” is out now on Cheersquad Records & Tapes** 
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