Year By Year

Steel Town

Quiet Revolution

Long Way Home

Little Soul

Just About Right

Ivors Song

Gold Dust

Four Winds Part 2

Four Winds Part 1

ANYTOWN
  
Much anticipated second album Year By Year, was written by Matt Taylor and produced in Sheffield by Samuel Taylor and features a cast of musicians including Sam Taylor (Ophelia, Dead Like Harry), John Redgrave (Dead Like Harry) and Robin Baker (Dead Like Harry).
After performing the songs from the first album regularly for around three years and having these songs featured on 16,000 digital jukeboxes in cafes and bars around the UK, and having one track featured on Channel 4’s Hollyoaks, Anytown took a break from the live circuit while Matt set about writing a new album. “The songs on this album are very personal and are about the journey I have been on over the past four years, where I met my wife Abbi and had our two children Archie and Ivor.”
 
The final song on the album, Edith Cavell, was written on a beach in Norfolk. Matt explains, “We believe my great grandfather - Private T.C. Scott of the Norfolk Regiment - was one of the British soldiers who was helped to escape from occupied Belgium by Nurse Edith Cavell in World War One. She hid him in a barrel of apples. In the song I reflect on the fact that, without her sacrifice (Edith Cavell was executed by the German army), I wouldn’t exist and neither would my children.
 
Year by Year has been recorded over a period of three years with Matt’s brother Samuel producing and engineering the album as well as performing most of the instrumentation. Dead Like Harry’s John Redgrave and Robin Baker have also been involved in the project with Robin providing bass guitar and John mixing the album and performing the piano arrangement for Edith Cavell.
  
“Anytown nod to the likes of Fairport Convention and Martin Marthy – telling real life stories as song” – Sheffield Telegraph.