Adam Walton - Afal (album)
release date: Friday 29th April 2022

 STREAM: https://soundcloud.com/adamwalton/sets/adam-walton-afal (shareable)

My name is Adam Walton. I’m from Mold in north Wales. 

My new album ‘Afal’ is released on Friday 29th April 2022. It’s folkish, melodic (I hope) and a little bit trippy, dictated by the songs having been mostly written and recorded after late shifts at work. I wanted to preserve as much humanity and natural grain in the recordings as possible… eschewing autotune, multiple takes and any urge for perfection.

I love slightly off kilter chord sequences and melodies that weave and glow. If the melodies weave and glow for you, I’ll be a happy-ish man.

Musically-speaking? I don’t know… there are scraps of Emitt Rhodes, Beck, De La Soul, Elliott Smith, Love, Teenage Fanclub, Modern Life Is Rubbish-era Blur, Richard Holland’s compilation tapes… The Zombies, Pink Floyd and The Boo Radleys.

It’s about being older and not hating it; not eschewing responsibility, but giving your imagination and flights of fancy daily mouth-to-mouth and defibrillation. 

It’s trying to elicit the same sense of wonder that Operation Jonah, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Wacky Amoebatrons, Many Happy Returns, The Lotus Caves, And Your Bird Can Sing, Strange Perceptions, Runequest, The Losers Club, and rainy, deserted winter afternoons in Portmeirion elicited in me.

To my mind, the instrumental sketches interspersed throughout the album are just as important as the songs, but then the songs aren’t all that important, anyway, so it’s a moot point.

I do hope you like ‘Afal’, I won’t pretend otherwise. I hope it casts a spell over you.

Thank you for listening / diolch am wrando.

The album is available via all the usual streaming / download outlets from Friday 29th April 2022, and also as a limited edition black vinyl LP (300 copies) from bandcamp.
https://theimmediate.bandcamp.com/album/afal

All songs ©2022 written by Adam Walton (Copyright Control) 

Recorded by a combination of me and Russ Hayes, between my house and Orange Sound Studios in Penmaenmawr.

Artwork by the very wonderful Beverley Dale
http://beverleydale.com

Live Dates
10.06.22 The Lexington, London (with Helen Love)
18.06.22 Le Pub, Newport (with Martin Carr and Richard J. Parfitt)
24.06.22 Elysium, Swansea
09.07.22 B-Fest, Caerwys
23.08.22 Loud & Local Festival, Alexander’s, Chester
03.09.22 Well Inn Music Festival, Holywell

For bookings, please mail: mradamwalton@googlemail.com

Adam Walton - Afal

Listen in solitude.

SIDE 1
	1.	#1									0’33
	2.	Rain On Your Parade					2’59
	3.	#6									0’46
	4.	Emily Said (On Account Of The Days)		2’16
	5.	#4									0’34
	6.	Mary Sees UFO’s						3’22
	7.	Cornelian							2’49
	8.	#12									1’10
	9.	Cloudburst II							3’20
	10.	#5									1’31

SIDE 2
	1.	Blinded By Headlights					2’55
	2.	#8									1’01
	3.	Goldfinch							3’36
	4.	#2									0’27
	5.	2269								3’23
	6.	#3									0’30
	7.	Foreveryou							3’08
	8.	#10									0’43
	9.	The Moon And The Stars					3’16
	10.	#7									1’53

All songs ©2021 Adam Walton except track 12 which was co-written by / features a sample from ‘Walker’ by David Ian Roberts ©2020.
2, 4, 13 & 19 recorded and mastered by Russ Hayes at Orange Sound Studios.
All other tracks recorded at home.
Cover painting and design by Beverley Dale. http://beverleydale.com

For Jane and Graham.

Thanks to: Gail Watt, Ava Walton, Jo Walton, Danny Walton, Ritzy Bryan, Janice Long, Ben Hayes, Huw Williams, Tom & Carrie Hyndman. 

facebook.com/adamwaltonsongs

Made in the UK
Whipcord Records WCRACKLP01

Adam Walton - Afal

Adam Walton - Afal

Listen in solitude.

SIDE 1
	1.	#1									0’33
	2.	Rain On Your Parade					2’59
	3.	#6									0’46
	4.	Emily Said (On Account Of The Days)		2’16
	5.	#4									0’34
	6.	Mary Sees UFO’s						3’22
	7.	Cornelian							2’49
	8.	#12									1’10
	9.	Cloudburst II							3’20
	10.	#5									1’31

SIDE 2
	1.	Blinded By Headlights					2’55
	2.	#8									1’01
	3.	Goldfinch							3’36
	4.	#2									0’27
	5.	2269								3’23
	6.	#3									0’30
	7.	Foreveryou							3’08
	8.	#10									0’43
	9.	The Moon And The Stars					3’16
	10.	#7									1’53

All songs ©2021 Adam Walton except track 12 which was co-written by / features a sample from ‘Walker’ by David Ian Roberts ©2020.
2, 4, 13 & 19 recorded and mastered by Russ Hayes at Orange Sound Studios.
All other tracks recorded at home.
Cover painting and design by Beverley Dale. http://beverleydale.com

For Jane and Graham.

Thanks to: Gail Watt, Ava Walton, Jo Walton, Danny Walton, Ritzy Bryan, Janice Long, Ben Hayes, Huw Williams, Tom & Carrie Hyndman. 

facebook.com/adamwaltonsongs

Made in the UK
Whipcord Records WCRACKLP01

Afal (mastered)

The Moon And The Stars

Foreveryou

2269

Goldfinch

Blinded By Headlights

Cornelian

Mary Sees UFO's

Emily Said (On Account Of The Days)

Rain On Your Parade

Cloudburst II

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The Immediate are a three-piece indie, power pop band from Mold in north Wales.

We release our Mold EP on Friday 3rd March 2017. The EP will be available to buy on limited edition CD and digitally via bandcamp / iTunes etc.

Mold features 4 brand new recordings, 3 of which are exclusive to the EP.

Lead track, What’s The Matter Kevin Jones?, is a song about some of the kids we went to the Alun School with, who weren’t as fortunate as us and didn’t make it into their 30’s. 

Light Dimensions is the first song we wrote when we reconvened after a long hiatus.

Manbuoy is the title track of our forthcoming debut album, however it does not feature on the album itself. It’s a mostly spoken-word piece that exaggerates all of its writer’s worst qualities.

Mold was recorded at Orange Sound Studios in Penmaenmawr, North Wales by Russ Hayes, who has worked on recordings by Peaness, Campfire Social, Kidsmoke, Catfish and the Bottlemen and Billy Bibby and the Wry Smiles.

The sleeve design was done by Paul Maurice from Wrexham. It’s a detail of Shire Hall, the brutalist former seat of Flintshire County Council that sits on a hill, above Mold town centre.

The Mold EP will be launched at a hometown gig at Theatr Clwyd, Mold on Friday, 3rd. March. We’ll be joined by our friends Campfire Social and Skellums. Tickets are £7 and available here:

https://www.theatrclwyd.com/en/whats-on/headliner-rock-night/

Mold EP tracklisting (r/d 3rd March 2017):

1.	What’s The Matter Kevin Jones?
2.	Light Dimensions
3.	Tremble
4.	Manbuoy

If you have any further enquiries, please contact:

theimmediateband@gmail.com

http://facebook.com/theimmediate
http://twitter.com/the_immediate

There is a YouTube video telling the story of the band so far, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtERsE3ihDg

We originally split in 1997 due to frustration, an argument over a mouth organ and the success of Stereophonics.

We released one single (unaccountably popular in Sweden), made every conceivable mistake in the How To Be A Successful Indie Band handbook, toured with some excellent bands (Mansun, 60ft Dolls, Dodgy) and flickered out, leaving behind the memory of some great gigs, a few fine songs, and little else.

In March 2016, we reconvened to repair friendships and renew tinnitus. New songs came much more easily than the old ones, probably because we are playing to please only ourselves - with no thoughts of success or acclaim - for the first time in our existence.

There is more truth and resonance in our songs now than ever before. And power. And invention. We write songs about hope and love in the face of the moribund, daily grind. 

You will possibly hear fragments and echoes of the following artists in our sound (The Jam, Wire, XTC, Pixies, Badfinger, REM, Dr Feelgood, Small Faces, Husker Du, The Who, Ride, Big Star, The Cure, Joy Formidable, The Go-Betweens, Teenage Fanclub), but nothing has been plagiarised or misappropriated to mask a deficiency of our own ideas.

Adam Walton - Afal

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