"Horseshoe" is the first single from Withered Hand's album "New Gods," and features a guest appearance from Pam Berry (Black Tambourine) on backing vocals.

Fortuna POP! (UK/Europe) and Slumberland Records (US/Canada) are proud to announce the new album by the Edinburgh based folk-rock troubadour Dan Willson who records as WITHERED HAND. “New Gods” is his stunning second album, following his critically acclaimed debut “Good News”.

Active in the world of visual art and dabbling in music for many years, Withered Hand’s Dan Willson came late to singing and songwriting at age 30, in a period of reflection between the death of a close friend and the birth of his first child. The resultant material, much of which went on to become the album “Good News,” has been praised for its depth and startling honesty.

Withered Hand has been embraced by Fife-based musical powerhouse the Fence Collective (whose sovereign King Creosote guests on the new album), seen his songs picked up on MTV and cult series Skins, and gained a legion of fans including Jarvis Cocker and Rolling Stone Magazine USA (who decreed him “Artist to Watch”).

A prolific live performer, recent Withered Hand shows have included collaborations with Pam Berry of seminal 90's US noise-pop band Black Tambourine and a rotating cast of musical friends embellishing Dan's exuberant and original songwriting alongside fragile and uplifting solo performances.

The long-awaited second album (produced by Tony Doogan – Mountain Goats/Belle & Sebastian etc - and part-funded by arts council body Creative Scotland) features guest appearances from the likes of Pam Berry, Eugene Kelly of The Vaselines and members of Belle & Sebastian and Frightened Rabbit.

The five years since “Good News” was recorded has seen Willson honing his songcraft, building his audience and gaining critical momentum. “New Gods” is a beautifully executed collection of songs from one of Scotland’s most gifted songwriters.

“Beautifully constructed lyrical frameworks ... on this banjo-tinged brand of Caledonian gospel” – **** MOJO

“the UK’s best lyricist” – King Creosote, in The Independent

“Killer melodies ... wobbly folk grooves ... tunes full of warm, woozy sing-song charm” – 'Artist to Watch', Rolling Stone

Withered Hand - Horseshoe

Produced and mixed by Hugh Worskett

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You've got your long hair,
I've got my toupée. 
I'm just a fake Liberace in a coupe.
You've got some dollar,
I've got my 2p.
You fed me cake to get me fat then you outgrew me

Mr. Fist straight to your nose.
Got a ride on the bruise cruise,
When all you thought you deserved was a rose.
Mr. Fist, that's how it goes.
Got a ride on the bruise cruise,
When all you thought you deserved was a rose.

You livin' healthy?
I bought this smoothie,
And got my aspidistra glidin', getting droopy.
I'm getting girthy 
Under my duvet.
I wanna spend the afternoon like in that movie.

Mr. Fist straight to your nose.
Got a ride on the bruise cruise,
When all you thought you deserved was a rose.
Mr. Fist, that's how it goes.
Got a ride on the bruise cruise,
When all you thought you deserved was a rose.

Here I am with lust applied,
Man to man, our cocks entwined. 
You shut the door on my wrinkled pride.
I've butcher's spirt but no knife.
Carve my meat with gravied eyes.
Comfort me, I swig from Mummy.
Comfort me and think I'm funny.

Mr Fist

After spending two years living on opposite coasts and pursuing their own creative projects, Ivan Howard and Kelly Crisp returned last spring to set to work on the sixth full-length album from the Rosebuds. Joining up with Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon (a friend and former bandmate who, in a 2011 interview, noted that the Rosebuds make “some of the most important music in the world”), the North Carolina-bred duo spent a week in Vernon’s studio teasing out a batch of songs that effortlessly weave the hooky songcraft of classic jangle-pop, the cagey romanticism of new wave, and a refined yet full-hearted sensibility all their own. Featuring Vernon on guitar and synths—as well as Bon Iver drummer Matt McCaughan and Sylvan Esso's Nick Sanborn on bass, both longtime pals and cohorts of the Rosebuds—the resulting Sand + Silence radiates both a graceful intensity and the loose, joyful energy that comes from making music with friends.

The Rosebuds - Esse Quam Videri

Experiment

From the album MCIII, out May 5, 2015 on Merge Records.


MCIII

Order from Merge

Mikal Cronin "Made My Mind Up"

LYRICS: 
Made of wanting, solely, I’m used to - it’s easy, look at what we gain. Sorta holding on loose ever so slightly, fingers feeling rain. And if it’s over will you wanna go, I’m down. If you account for me and vouch for me every time we go. Will you surrender to a remedy so ripe it’s running cold.

Push in to fix, to get it set. Pushing to feel the very half. And it counts as an echo when we get out.

Never one not only, no not like the TV, whittle it away. Sorta novel to stay largest and heavy, mountain full of clay. And if it’s over will you wanna go, I’m down, you know that I’m down.

Ava Luna - "Coat Of Shellac"

From the new album ‘Slowness’ out 15 June on Memphis Industries.
 
Pre-order ‘Slowness’ on limited edition gatefold blue marble vinyl (with download code) or CD from www.outfit.band, or your local indie store. 
 
Alternatively order from iTunes or Amazon.

http://smarturl.it/slownessitunes

Special London preview show

13th May - Lexington, London
18th June - The Kazimier, Liverpool

https://tickets.songkick.com/events/23086713

Image by Lucy Hardcastle

Genderless

Produced and recorded by Macks Faulkron @ Rex Studio, London.
Mixed by Jermey Radway

So Far, So Deep

My Children Activities Songs Do Not Make Sense

Swing Set Above the Volcano

Glashjerte

Four-piece surf rock band The Van T’s, are back with a bang as they get set to release their reverb-drenched single Fun Garçon, out on 25th November via Bloc+Music.

2016 has been a breakout year for the Glaswegian surf-rock band having released their EP A Coming of Age to critical acclaim in July. Gaining premiere’s on Huw Stephens BBC Radio Introducing show, Noisey, Consequence of Sound and Clash Magazine the band’s name began to resonate from the UK to the US and beyond. 

Now, the four-piece look set to pick up exactly where they left off with the release of single Fun Garçon. The track encapsulates all the great elements of a band who exude talent way beyond their youthfulness; relentless guitar washes over the listener like the sound of a crashing wave, as the duel vocals of twin sisters Hannah(guitar, vocals) and Chloe Van Thompson (guitar, vocals) amplify the diner-like retro feel the song already has all fused together beautifully by the tight rhythm section headed up by Joanne Forbes (bass) and Shaun Hood (drums).

The release of Fun Garçon will complete what has been a wonderful year for the band. Support slots with Yuckand Rat Boy, who personally chose the band to play, were followed by a stellar festival season which saw the band play T in The Park’s BBC Introducing stage, Electric Fields, Wide Days and Stag and Dagger. They also picked up further support form the likes of The Scotsman, Beat Surrender, Backseat Mafia, Amazing Radio and BBC Introducing Scotland, where they recently performed a superb live session, and culminated in a nomination at this years Scottish Alternative Music Awards.

Fun Garçon by The Van T’s is due for release on 25th November 2016 via Bloc+Music.

http://www.abadgeoffriendship.com/artists/the-van-ts

Experiment

Animal Language