"In a Bar" from Tango with Lions' debut album "Verba Time", released by InnerEar Records on June 21st 2010

In a Bar

Release Date : 23rd February 2015

Grasscut, the duo of Andrew Phillips and Marcus O’Dair, return in February with a new single, Curlews/September Night’s Sky – the first single from the band’s forthcoming third album, Everyone Was A Bird, to be released by Lo Recordings in May 2015. 

Whilst first performed in collaboration with the Kronos Quartet to over 4,000 people in a warehouse in Poland, Curlews origins lie much closer to home. It’s meditative piano intro, soaring strings and sense of open skies and distant horizons inspired by the British coastline. “I’d started it on the train from Birmingham to Wales,” say Phillips, “and as I reworked it later for the album the music, especially the piano and string rhythms, kept pulling me back back to the Mawddach Estuary. I kept stripping layers and layers away, till eventually the melody, mood, and words were exposed – like they'd always been there.”

“The poet Harriet Tarlo cautions against the lazy use of ornithological metaphors for human emotion, but watching the curlews on the estuary, I really thought: this is me, digging around in the mud till I find it. I hope that's not lazy.”

That sense of place and belonging resonates throughout much of Grasscut’s work, and the forthcoming album features liner notes from the renowned landscape writer Robert Macfarlane. 

Alongside Curlews comes September's Night Sky, a story of a spring equinox in the Southern Hemisphere. Scored by fragmented keyboards, guitars and sweeping strings it brings to mind the sense of both majesty and fragility that a starry night can inspire.

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After "Theater Island," last year's 6-track EP, Sóley returns with her first full-length, an album full of rhythmic makeshift creatures, of handclaps hidden in the undergrowth, tempting us to join in. The 13 tracks are sometimes incredibly catchy; amazingly quirky at other times: think cardigan-folk from the northern hemisphere, an ocean of stained glasses bopping up and down in the shared apartment's dishwater, leeward in limbo. The result is refreshing in its lack of edginess; think Joanna Newsom minus her harp, or the Casady sisters circa 2004, but then clearly better trained, less crooked. In other words: her voice, those loops moving around like wooden toys, and finally the piano – that's the backbone, the essence of her compositions; at least until some unexpected element appears elsewhere, a rhythmic creaking or the lack thereof, like a hidden Rube Goldberg machine, setting off yet another component, thus paving the way across the threshold and on into the next realm of sound. And thus we keep on sinking, deeper and deeper, until we stand on terra firma once again, realizing that somehow, next to us, above us, around us, a beat is laid out, hesitantly moving along at first, then careering… 

Sóley: I'll Drown

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So fast
But yet so slow
The winds of change
The fear of loss
What must I forego
When all I hear
Is the calling of my name
To let go of the reins
The cycle of life
The rhythm of now
Becoming my holy how
To trust in
I know in my heart
I feel it in 
my weary bones
My happiness
My sorrow
My joy
And my peace
Are found 
Where and when
I atone.
And will always be waiting
for me today and tomorrow
As November slumbers
I am reminded to slow down
To feel the ground
To feel the space 
round and round
The ancestral calling
Of all those who
walked before me
paving the roads
building the arcs
caring for
our national parks
inventing and making
nearly everything
before me. 
Ferrying to and fro
I bow my head
In thanksgiving
Oh the winds of change
are a calling.
The light in me
The light in you
The light I choose
Is my roadmap
Is my guide
Everything 
I think I want
is binding me
It will provide me
I am ready to let go
Now I decide
To let a new perception
come to me
I bow my head
Gratefully
I know the way
If just for today.




November Slumbers

Tired

Sóley - The Sun Is Going Down II

Narrow

Wonder

Soap&Skin - Wonder

A-side of our 7" EP, published on january 25th 2013

Landscapes

Brent Arnold: cello, producer
Adam Haggar: engineer
Recorded at La Cour Dieu and Audiofriction HQ

Empty Castles (Brent Arnold No Widows refracted)

"Beat" is the first track from Mire Kay's upcoming debut album "A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats", to be released April 5th!

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Lyrics: John Grant (original lyrics in Icelandic by Einar Georg Einarsson)

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Ásgeir – Going Home (The Toe Rag Acoustic Sessions)

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