New Release From WOO

Independent Project Records (IPR) has announced that UK cult band WOO will reissue their debut album, Whichever Way You Are Going, You Are Going Wrong, originally released in 1982 via the band’s The Sunshine Series Records label, as an expanded edition on January 16, 2026. The remixed and remastered expanded edition of Whichever Way You Are Going, You Are Going Wrong includes new album cover art and ten previously unreleased bonus tracks presented as a ‘mini’ album. It will be available on both black and limited edition clear vinyl, as well as Special Edition CD and digital formats. This genre and time-defying selection of songs marked the public’s first exposure to the wild sonic experimentations that brothers Mark Ives and Clive Ives would be known for over the following decades. “Mark and I had been home recording for five very prolific years before Whichever Way You Are Going, You Are Going Wrong was compiled,” says WOO’s Clive Ives. “The thirteen tracks we selected from this period are very diverse in style, yet magically complimentary.”

In 1982, as brothers Mark and Clive Ives first opened the doors to their home studio in South London, the world met WOO – a duo that escaped genre and definition, making music that was proudly unrestrained, constantly mutating and always surprising. From its very title, debut LP Whichever Way You Are Going, You Are Going Wrong asserted the brothers Ives as tireless explorers of multifarious shape-shifting musical directions – the album blended kaleidoscopic jazz and analogue electronica, free-flowing pop and unearthly muzak, retro fun and futuristic adventures. “WOO can sound as soft as a Martini ad, as sharp as a stab of conscience and often, brilliantly, both,” Melody Maker noted at the time. The first single, “Swingtime,” is at radio now.

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Label: Independent Project Records