With the document ominously titled ‘Regional Release’, it makes one wonder what kind of press release the national press got instead.

We have taken the liberty to embolden some of it for our own amusement.

Wake the President announce Album & UK Tour Details

WTP are set to return with a remarkable second album, Zumutung!, on 31 October. Recorded at Glasgow’s celebrated Chem 19 studios and produced by Paul Savage (Franz Ferdinand, King Creosote, The Phantom Band), Zumutung! is darker, more experimental and more anthemic than its predecessor but, as ever with WTP, the brooding poetic undertow is countered by ebullient tunes.

The Sandberg twins remain based in Glasgow, but travel and displacement had a bearing on the Zumutung! aesthetic. ‘When I wrote the album I was splitting my time between Glasgow and London,’ muses Erik of its genesis. ‘The Mega-Bus provided plenty of time for catching up on the Zola or Camus novels that I’d amassed, and I actually wrote [lambent post-punk aria] ‘In Youth, There is Pleasure’ and [alt-rock romantic exodus] ‘This is New’ in a poxy bed-sit in Hackney.’

On writing the single, Erik muses thus: ‘I remember reading Kierkegaard at the time. I was in a terrible state. I took an idea from him regarding repetition (Repetition and Other Philosophical Crumbs) and ran with it. I like having my own imaginary conversations with writers about their ideas. It amuses me – especially if they’re dead…’

Bjorn identifies internal wrangles as another source of inspiration on Zumutung!. ‘Without using a cliche, it was a pretty dark time for both of us personally, for various reasons, when we were making the album,’ he reflects. ‘Tensions were high between us as brothers and friends – Paul Savage sent me home one afternoon! But I think that prickly tension and energy comes across on the album, and it’s something which I like about it,’ he says.

While Zumutung! is entrenched in literature, counter-culture and philosophy – and while its themes of love, loss, obsession and hope are as universal as its melodies – Zumutung! is musically and lyrically signposted by WTP’s home city. ‘I cycle through Glasgow’s Clyde Tunnel every day’ says Erik, a tireless seeker of new ideas and inspiration. ‘It’s a great place for stealing lyrics from the graffiti…’

This appreciation for counter-culture is at the heart of Wake the President’s charms. It’s in their association with Glasgow DIY uprising We Can Still Picnic, and their self-run imprint, Say Dirty Records. It’s in their love of Postcard, heavy vinyl, pamphleteering and graffiti. It’s in their visionary, vintage indie-pop that’s fighting fit for our dancing feet, and our curious minds, and our fragile hearts.

*slow clap*