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We Float Like Sinking Ships

Bastard Mountain are: Pete Harvey & Neil Pennycook from Meursault, Jill O’Sullivan from Sparrow & the Workshop, Rob St. John from eagleowl & Meursault, Rory Sutherland from Broken Records & Reuben Taylor from James Yorkston & the Athletes.

Farewell, Bastard Mountain was recorded in October 2012. Jill, Neil and Rob each brought three songs, one to sing themselves, and one each for the other two vocalists to sing. Over the course of a week the group wrote and recorded music to go with these new versions, the result of which is Farewell, Bastard Mountain.

It's a record full of drones and textures, but not as dark and oppressive as that might lead you to imagine. Instead, the semi-improvised nature, live recording and playfulness of the album gives the record a real lightness and sense of unity, to the extent that the vinyl has been pressed without any track breaks at all, as it all just fits seamlessly together as a single piece of work.

This approach to collaborative music was inspired by the Cold Seeds album we did several years ago with Animal Magic Tricks, King Creosote and Meursault. That album was more ad-hoc, there was no real plan for how it was going to happen, the music was almost entirely improvised and it all sort of fell together by happy accident.

This time around we wanted to reproduce that level of experimentation and excitement, but once the musicians got together it turned into something more like a conventional band. They may not have had much time, but they still rehearsed everything a little and then recorded the bulk of each song live, playing off each other to mitigate the uncertainty of trying to record a song they’d only learned a couple of hours ago.

The results are absolutely beautiful, with new takes on older songs as well as new and previously unheard tunes by all three main songwriters, as well as a first ever officially released song by Rory Sutherland which we all liked so much we’re pushing him to write a solo record as soon as possible.

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Bastard Mountain - Meadow Ghosts

Rosemary & Garlic is a musical collaboration between Anne van den Hoogen & Dolf Smolenaers, from Amsterdam & Utrecht in the Netherlands.

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The Dancers

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HOLY ESQUE - SOVEREIGN

The second single from the debut album "The Shouting Cave". Engineered at Chem19, mastered at smallfishrecordings.

"Havoc" by Turning Plates

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COLLAPSIBLE MOUNTAINS - Endings

The first single from Sunshine Social's upcoming debut album. Includes single 'The Brace', a further song from the new album 'Men at Work', and a remix of an old Sunshine Social song 'Next of Kin'. 

Next Of Kin (Spirit Guides Remix)

A song about unconditional love from forthcoming album J O Y
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/joy/id961079602

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Good Love Lives On

OSKAR BRAVES - Wildlings (single Version)

Soft Wrists

The debut from Glasgow 5 piece November Lights. 
Available 11th September on iTunes

Bring  You Home

Free download here: http://bit.ly/FatherBC

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CaveYear - Father

FairyTale by Thula Borah from the new EP 'Hope For Disappointment'

FairyTale (promo edit)

Taken from the forthcoming album 'Night Songs' released March 25th 2016 on Sugarcoat Records
Preorder here: https://benedictbenjamin.bandcamp.com/album/night-songs

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Thin Skin

'Utopia' is a single taken from Idlewild's latest album 'Everything Ever Written'. The single will be released via Empty Words on November 27th 2015.

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Idlewild - Utopia

"I Sing The Body Electric" is taken from Ruled By Dreams, the forthcoming début solo album by ex-Geneva vocalist Andrew Montgomery. Released 5th October 2014.

Produced by Sean McGhee (Robyn, Imogen Heap, Alison Moyet). Featuring Röyksopp / Schiller collaborator Kate Havnevik and Jody Gadsden & Simon Neilson from Autoheart.

Contact press@ruledbydreams.com for further information.

Critical praise for Andrew:

"Astonishing...sings like some heaven-sent of love child of Smokey Robinson & Harriet Wheeler." Andrew Mueller, The Independent
"Andrew Montgomery's yearning falsetto calls attention to himself...an extraordinary voice." - Allmusic
"Distinctive, powerful and evocative" - Metro

Andrew Montgomery - "I Sing The Body Electric"

Ribbons is the first single taken from Andrew Pearson & The Riflebirds forthcoming album 'There'll Be Flowers Come The Spring' due for release on the 18th February 2013. 

It's quiet, meditative nature and the combination of accordion, clarinet and gentle electronic textures are representative of the album and has come to be the trademark of The Riflebirds, adding richness and warmth yet still allowing breathing room for Pearson's lyrics.

Andrew Pearson & The Riflebirds will be embark on a micro-tour to launch the album in February, with support from Hamish James Hawk and Fay Butler:

Feb 15th - The Barron Theatre, St Andrews
Feb 16th - The Glad Cafe, Glasgow
Feb 17th - The Forest Cafe, Edinburgh

Released by Common Records

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