The Alias Sessions

Ideology Storm

Aesthetics of Inequality Triangles

Pottery Frog

Nude With A Suitcase

Skin Song - Bat For Lashes

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Just A Western

Just A Western (Edit)

Archive: The Downwards Singles

The Dull Age

Nick Hakim - Papas Fritas

1) Doing The Beeston Bump:
"The record opens with my partner and I walking on the pebble beach at Cley-Next-The-Sea. The sound get softer as we get onto the dunes so characteristic of Norfolk coast. Tom Skinner (Hello Skinny, Sons of Kemet) plays the drums."

Watch John's video for 'Doing The Beeston Bump' here (filmed on location in Norfolk): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eah0zZQPR5U

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On the auspicious occasion of the release of his mystical seventh artist album, technological force-of-nature Leafcutter John teams up with fellow stalwarts of idiosyncratic electronica Border Community to gift unto the world the small-yet-perfectly-formed joyously utopian artefact Yes! Come Parade With Us. Weaving field recordings from the Norfolk coastline together with layers of lyrical modular synth, these seven bright-eyed folk anthems sing with positivity and a sense of place, and feel right at home amongst the British label’s unparalleled ever-pastoral and often organic electronic legacy.

During the summer of 2017 exiled Yorkshireman Leafcutter John returned to his one-time home of Norfolk (having graduated in Painting from Norwich’s School of Art and Design back in 1998) and set out on foot along the sixty mile section of Norfolk Coast Path which runs from Hunstanton to Overstrand, trusty audio recording device in his pocket. “And very soon the physical act of walking began to make me think about music,” he explains. “My footsteps dictated the tempo and imagined melodies accompanied me as I slowly moved along the increasingly wild and magical stretch of coastline. Stresses of the city were replaced by the fall and rise of the North Sea and endless salt flats. Sounds from the environment filtered in and I would stop often to record what I was hearing around me.”

Back home in London, the hours of amassed field recordings would form the backbone and inspiration for a whole album worth of outpourings from John’s six-years-in-the-making modular synth. From the evocative sound of sea birds on Pillar and Stepper Motor to the colourful conversation from a country pub in This Way Out, the apposite selection of samples which made the final edit provide the perfect jumping-off point for John’s synths to soar with abandon, at times uplifting, frenetic, haunting, hypnotic or meditative, but always atmospheric and with unstoppable propulsion.

“Above all else, I wanted the album to exude a sense of constant forward motion but at a very human scale,” says John. Thus drummer friends Tom Skinner (Hello Skinny) and Sebastian Rochford (long-time collaborator in the twice Mercury Prize nominated band Polar Bear) were roped in to lend their suitably clattering human momentum, on Doing The Beeston Bump and Dunes respectively. Working in tempos to match his walking speed throughout - “whether trudging along a rainy shingle beach or running up wildflowering clifftop paths” - Yes! Come Parade With Us is perfect traveling music, and once unleashed upon the world is sure to provide the soundtrack to plenty more journeys to come.

Beginning his own musical journey back in 1999 on Mike Paradinas’ Planet Mu Records and with a widely-varied twenty year career in electronic music already under his belt, the release of his masterful seventh album sees Leafcutter John on career-defining form. An intensely personal project, John has also hand-drawn the labyrinthine album art and animated his own suitably exuberant rainbow-hued video to accompany the boundless enthusiasm of restorative title track Yes! Come Parade With Us. The resultant album gem is both assuredly successful in his stated aim of capturing “both the rugged beauty of the environment and the positivity I felt walking through it” and incredibly infectious, with a harmonious utopian outlook which cannot help but rub off on the listener.

Yes! Come Parade With Us

Leafcutter John - Doing the Beeston Bump

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LYRICS: #1 Dads - 4bit (Golden Repair LP | 2020)
Your gaze is down, your face is red
There’s crystals forming in your eyes
The shadows swim in your pillow’s indent
Your blood’s all blue again.
The lines dance on your favourite bedspread
You always like to straighten them out
I guess you got that from your dad.
 
I feigned love to fall in it
I called a spade a spade and now I’m all ashamed
And I was raised to make the best of all I have
Now what’s my best good for?
 
Ooh, for a four bit love
Ooh, for a four bit love
Ooh, for a four bit love
And on and on we go
 
Who’s down in the garden tonight
Every drink’s on you but not the joke
You take stock of all the laughing
And every flower bows as you walk by.
You painted pickets in a cul-de-sac
And looked out on the street that stretched out forever
And day followed night and on it went
And you wished your friends all the best.
 
I feigned love to fall in it…
 
Ooh, for a four bit love…
 
Tracing eyes with your eyes as you watch the news
Tragedy is everywhere
Okay for some and better for you, I s’pose.
And you can slide like the grease on a gun
Always clicking with your mouth
And your lips can kiss and they like to
Gotta find a sweet girl.
 
High and low I don’t know them
Bridges over water I don’t trouble myself
And I was raised to make the best of all I have
Now what’s my best good for?
 
Ooh, for a four bit love…
 
Rounding corners just to round back again
Your mind really loves to drive
But you’re talking green and the lights are red
Eyeballs scour the sidewalk.
And your week is an ocean, the -end: an island
And you’ve been swimming all damn day
Yeh we all bottom out when we have to feed
And you’ve worked up quite an appetite
 
I feigned love…
 
Ooh, for a four bit love

#1 Dads - 4bit (Golden Repair LP | 2020)

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