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Monoganon - Easterhouse

Randolph's Leap -  Light Of The Moon

RANDOLPH’S LEAP - KNOT 
THEIR FULL-LENGTH DEBUT ALBUM 
VINYL + CD/DOWNLOAD 
APR 7, 2014  

On April 7, 2014, Randolph’s Leap will become the first artist in 2014 to release an album on Scotland’s newest micro-indie Lost Map Records, and just the second artist to release an album on the label in its short history to date, with the arrival of their long-gestating, thoroughly invigorating, well-worth-the-wait(ing) full-length debut set Clumsy Knot. They’ll mark this special occasion in suitably rambunctious style with a launch show at Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow on Saturday, April 5. Consider yourself invited.  
Those familiar with Randolph’s Leap’s already extensive oeuvre – which spans several mini albums, compilations and EPs, many of them self-released yet generating such a buzz as to make the band one of the most blogged-about of 2012 according to The Hype Machine and see them invited to perform two BBC 6Music live sessions for Marc Riley – will perhaps question what qualifies Clumsy Knot as their “arrival proper”. Newcomers to the Leap’s bountiful charms meanwhile may ponder: “how come sometimes they’re eight people, and other times they’re just a guy?”, not to mention, “which one's Randolph”? So many questions, and we will endeavour to answer them all in due course.  
Begun on the fringes of a college music course in Ayr circa 2006, the now Glasgow-based Randolph’s Leap is/are Nairn born-and-raised singer, songwriter and home-recording boffin extraordinaire Adam Ross – as sometimes aided and abetted live and on record by a seven-piece band that includes Vicki Cole (bass), Andrew MacLellan (cello, guitar), Iain Taylor (drums, guitar), Heather Thikey (violin), Ali Hendry (trumpet), Fraser Gibson (trombone) and formerly Gareth Perrie (keyboards, vocals, guitar). When not working in a cafe at a wind-farm, Adam ponders in song all from the neurosis of self-doubt to the simple joy of a sax-solo, the difference between barristers and baristas, the appeal of running away to the woods to live like a recluse and the idealistic romanticism of island life (maybe he ponders these things while working in a cafe at a wind farm too, we haven’t asked). These wistful tableaux are most often committed to tape in the confines of his humble Partick abode by combination of acoustic guitar, cheap keyboards and basic drum-loops, with a profligacy that belies their increasing sonic sophistication, which has improved exponentially from the delightfully scratchy, hissy lo-fi stuff of 2012’s The Curse of The Haunted Headphones through to last year’s Olive Grove Records mini-album Real Anymore to come to bear at least a passing familiarity with what might be termed “slickness”. Just over half of the songs on Clumsy Knot are home-recordings. However, don’t be surprised to sometimes see the lesser-spotted Randolphs recording as a gang in such environs as producer/engineer Pete MacDonald’s house (formerly a Polish Embassy and home to Teenage Fanclub), and (whisper it) even proper studios – with the exuberantly joyful ‘Hermit’ proving just what they're capable of unleashed upon pro gear (that is, knowingly-dodgy lyrical puns to the tune of “living like a hermit/ hermit the frog”).  
Tying together all these many disparate strands of the band in a comprehensive if not always necessarily elegant way – and you understand the title, Clumsy Knot now – Randolph’s Leap’s utterly delightful debut album is the strongest single statement yet as to just why this band are one of the most loveable new forces in folksome indie- pop. For the way it surveys everything the band are about, Adam describes Clumsy Knot as "my favourite album we’ve made," and we don't disagree. You'll hear shades of vintage Belle & Sebastian in the lush 'Weatherman' and 'Isle of Love', or hints of The Magnetic Fields in the dour boom-box indie-tronica of 'Light Of The Moon'. And yet throughout Clumsy Knot, there's also something indefinably, uncategoriseably Randolphs going on, hinging on the idiosyncratic vision of a laugh-out-loud funny songwriter who revels in lyric writing as word-puzzles and the daft pleasure of a rhyme-that-doesn't-quite-rhyme ("If I spoke Dutch would that help me much?", Adam ponders ponderously on 'Foolishness of Youth'), and yet who can also stop you dead in your tracks with a moment of heartfelt loveliness (see the beautifully simple 'Black and Blue' or the shivering 'Cold'). All of which beats a direct path to your affections faster than any such unwieldy, 32-limbed creature has a right to. As to the identity of the mysterious Randolph? Look him up at 57.53284,-3.667676. 

RANDOLPH’S LEAP PRESS QUOTES:  
“They are ace” – MARC RILEY, BBC 6MUSIC "Great, concise, clever… and funny" – CLASH "Folk infused majesty" – THE FLY "Equal measures Woody Guthrie and Woody Allen" – THE HERALD "Amazing" – THE DAILY RECORD “Nonsense of the best kind” – THE SCOTSMAN “Odd ear-worms of joy” – THE SKINNY "In a league of their own" – THE LIST  

CLUMSY KNOT TRACKLISTING
A:  
1. Unnatural 2. Foolishness of Youth 3. News 4. Hermit 5. Gina 6. Light of the Moon 7. Weatherman  
B:  
8. Black & Blue 9. Isle of Love 10. Microcosm 11. Saxophone 12. Cold 13. I Can’t Dance to This Music Anymore 

RANDOLPH’S LEAP LIVE IN 2014:  

Mar 7 @ The Tunnels, Aberdeen (w/ Kid Canaveral) 
Mar 8  @ The Beat Generator, Dundee (w/ Kid Canaveral)
Mar 9 @ The Lexington, London (w/ Kid Canaveral)  
Mar 14 @ The Glad Cafe, Glasgow (Adam solo show)
Mar 15 @ Twa Tams, Perth
Mar 31 @ Hidden Door Edinburgh (Lost Map night)
Apr 5 - CLUMSY KNOT ALBUM LAUNCH @ Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow 
Apr 18 @ Wales Goes Pop, Cardiff 
Apr 19 @ Stockton Calling, Stockton 
May 3 @ Brew at the Bog, Inverness 
Jun 20-22 @ Solas Festival, Perth
Jul 18-20 @ Lost Map's Howlin' Fling, Isle of Eigg
Aug 1 @ Cloudspotting Festival, Blackburn
Aug 8-9 @ Belladrum Festival, Inverness

02 Foolishness Of Youth

06 Light Of The Moon

GRAT 005 - AA - 'Portrait' by Lazy Day. 

As part of a special limited-edition release for Record Store Day 2015, it gives Lost Map Records great pleasure to welcome and introduce London’s Lazy Day. The lo-fi dreamy-grunge quartet’s stunning track ‘Portrait’ will be available as one-half of a split 7” single together with Lost Map’s own fast-rising Glasgow fuzzy indie duo Tuff Love’s brand new song ‘Groucho’. The single will be on sale in select independent record stores around the UK from Record Store Day on April 18, 2015, then thereafter also from the Lost Map webshop and as an iTunes/Bandcamp download.

Written by Tilly Scantlebury
Recorded and produced by Jonathan Coddington AKA Bottle Rocket Recording http://www.bottlerocketrecording.co.uk/
Artwork by Louis Scantlebury
Singing and guitars played by Tilly, backing vocals and drums played by Beni Evans, bass played by Jonathan Coddington
Lazy Day are: Tilly, Beni, Harry, Jonathan

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https://soundcloud.com/lazy-day
https://twitter.com/lazydaylazyday
https://www.facebook.com/lazydaylazyday

Lazy Day - 'Portrait'

Recorded at Lost Map and Kid Canaveral's annual Christmas Baubles show at Portobello Town Hall in December, Most Clunky is a 9 track album featuring live, full 8-piece band versions of songs from Randolph's Leap's debut album, Clumsy Knot (the eagle-eyed amongst you might notice a pun here!). This is a very limited run released in time for Record Store Day and features 12"x12" full colour artwork (available in 5 different colour combinations), handstamped labels and a handwritten tracklisting insert. Limited to 250 copies ... get it while stocks last!

Randolph's Leap - 'Unnatural' (live At Portobello Town Hall, 2014)

Lost Map Records are excited to announce the brand new single from Kid Canaveral, ‘First We Take Dumbarton'. It’s the first track to be previewed from the Glasgow and Edinburgh-based band’s third album Faulty Inner Dialogue – due for release this summer – and represents the first official new music Kid Canaveral have released since 2013’s Now That You Are A Dancer. The band will embark on a
short Scottish tour in May and appear at festivals this summer including Long Division in Wakefield (see below for a full list of dates).

SAT, APR 30 @ DIY POPFEST 2016, SHACKLEWELL ARMS, LONDON
SUN, MAY 8 @ HENRY’S CELLAR BAR, EDINBURGH (ACOUSTIC)
THU, MAY 26 @ HOOTANANNY (MAD HATTERS), INVERNESS
FRI, MAY 27 @ AN TOBAR, TOBERMORAY, ISLE OF MULL
SAT, MAY 28 @ THE HUG AND PINT, GLASGOW
SUN, MAY 29 @ DOWNSTAIRS, ABERDEEN
SAT, JUN 11 @ LONG DIVISION FESTIVAL, WAKEFIELD

Kid Canaveral - First We Take Dumbarton

A dizzying and very danceable dispatch of ghostly electro all about attempted discourse with the dead and accepting that what is gone is gone, ‘Dead Connection’ is the latest track to be previewed from Pictish Trail’s forthcoming new album FUTURE ECHOES.

The album comes out on Friday September 9th, and is available to pre-order on gatefold LP (on clear vinyl), or deluxe CD from Lost Map's website: http://lostmap.com/products/pictish-trail-future-echoes

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Pictish Trail - 'Dead Connection'

Far Gone (Don't Leave)

Savage Mansion - 'Do You Say Hello To Your Neighbours?'

‘With My Mind’ is the latest track to be released by London lo-fi dreamy-grunge quartet Lazy Day, following their now sold-out Record Store Day 2015 split 7” single with Tuff Love (‘Portait’ / ‘Groucho’), and last year’s 7” single ‘Disappear’ / ‘All The Time’ (watch the stunning video for ‘Disappear’ here). It will be released as a PostMap postcard single on May 5, 2017, and comes with an acoustic version as an exclusive bonus. Lazy Day will play a special headline show at the Servant Jazz Quarters in London on Tuesday, May 9.

Written by Tilly Scantlebury
Recorded by Jonny Coddington / Bottle Rocket Recording at The Crows' Nest Studios
Mixed by Adrian Hall at Clever Pup Studios & mastered by Andy 'Hippy' Baldwin at Metropolis.
Artwork by Eleanor Crewes Illustration 

website: www.lazydaylazyday.com/
facebook: www.facebook.com/lazydaylazyday
instagram: www.instagram.com/lazydaylazyday
twitter: twitter.com/lazydaylazyday
soundcloud: @lazy-day
spotify: bit.ly/2g9KTQY

Lazy Day - 'With My Mind'

‘Pale White Flower’ is the latest single taken from Kid Canaveral’s third album Faulty Inner Dialogue, which was released by Lost Map Records in the summer of 2016 as the much anticipated follow-up to their Scottish Album of the Year longlisted second album, 2013’s Now That You Are A Dancer.

KID CANAVERAL LIVE:

WED, MAY 24 @ ECZITERIA, HASSELT, BELGIUM*
THU, MAY 25 @ STEREO WONDERLAND, COLOGNE, GERMANY*
FRI, MAY 26 @ SANKT PIESCHEN, DRESDEN, GERMANY*
SAT, MAY 27 @ ILSES ERIKA, LEIPZIG, GERMANY*
SUN, MAY 28 @ BEIRUT, BERLIN, GERMANY*
SAT, JUL 15 @ INDIEFJORD, BJØRKE, NORWAY
FRI, JUL 28 @ INDIETRACKS, BUTTERLEY, ENGLAND

*W/ EMMA KUPA

Kid Canaveral - 'Pale White Flower' (Single Mix)

Lost Map Records are delighted to welcome the return of London lo-fi dreamy-grunge quartet Lazy Day with their shimmering and soaring new track ‘Hiccup’ – which is available to stream and share now via Spotify, Apple Music and all other major streaming services. It’s the thrilling first taster of their forthcoming EP Ribbons, which is due for release on 10” vinyl and digital formats on September 15, 2017. The single precedes Lazy Day’s first UK headline tour, which begins in Guildford on Monday, September 18 and takes in 12 dates around the country. 

‘Hiccup’ follows Lazy Day’s now long-since sold-out Record Store Day 2015 split 7” single with Tuff Love, ‘Portait’ / ‘Groucho’, and the ‘Disappear’ 7” single, which was accompanied by a stunning and trippy video hailed by DIY Mag as “yet more evidence of Tilly’s growing ambitions, as she amps up with a full band, and hits down on the accelerator”.

Lazy Day began life in 2014 as the bedroom solo project of Tilly Scantlebury. Self-recording her tracks on Garageband and making them available to hear via SoundCloud, she quickly gained extensive attention and praise from many respected music websites and blogs. Since expanding to a four-piece band currently featuring drummer Beni Evans, guitarist Liam Hoflay and newest member bassist Jake Head, they’ve gone on to twice be longlisted for Glastonbury’s Emerging Talent Competition, appear at festivals including LeeFest: The Neverland, SWN Festival and the Beacons Festival and earn radio play from BBC 6 Music’s Lauren Laverne. 

“I wrote ‘Hiccup’ two summers ago when I found myself in a romantic situation that I wasn’t ready for,” says Tilly. “The song is about not knowing what someone else is thinking and ending up in your own head. I wanted to play with the idea of a ‘hiccup’ – a weird involuntary bodily reflex that causes disruption, even if only for a second. A hiccup is like an unpredictable bump in the road, and it was a way for me to express the lack of control I felt I had at the time. I had a lot of fun mirroring this in the music, especially with the band in the studio – chopping and changing the pace and feel of the song so you’re never quite sure what’s next.”

‘Hiccup’ was recorded by Bottle Rocket Recording at The Crows’ Nest Studios, mixed by Adrian Hall (Anna Calvi/Goldfrapp) at Clever Pup Studios and mastered by Andy ‘Hippy’ Baldwin at Metropolis. Artwork and press shot by Eleanor Crewes.

Hiccup

Lazy Day - 'Hiccup'

Firestations - 'Build A Building'

Pictish Trail 
New single 'Lionhead' & UK Tour

After a fervently busy summer which included triumphant appearance at festivals including Field Day, Glastonbury, Green Man and Lost Map’s Howlin’ Fling, and was capped with a shortlisting for the Scottish Album of the Year Award by popular vote, Isle of Eigg-based Scottish DIY electronic folk-tinged croft pop sonic hermit and Lost Map Records founder and director Johnny Lynch AKA Pictish Trail looks ahead to the cold season with the Winter Rewind Acid Reflux Tour. A self-styled “intimate yuletide Eigg-nog of Hebridean Casio folk, with stripped back, twisted and blissed out regurgitations of ol’ Pictish Trail favourites” it’ll take in a clutch of dates up and down the UK, and feature Johnny performing as a three-piece together with multi-instrumentalists Suse Bear(Tuff Love) and John B. McKenna from Monoganon, who also be the tour support. It’s the latest round of tour dates in support of Pictish Trail’s critically garlanded third album Future Echoes, which came out in September 2016 on Lost Map Records. Future Echoes earned ★★★★ reviews from MOJO, Uncut, Clash, The Arts Desk and The Scotsman among others. Pictish Trail’s bonkers epic video for the track ‘After Life’ was hailed by The Guardian as “a warped myriad of apocalyptic symbolism… brilliant”.  Now in 2017, Pictish Trail signs to Fire Records.

Pictich Trail Tour Dates:
24 Nov: The Studio, Hartlepool, UK 
25 Nov: Alternative Peers' Ball, Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, Scotland (full band) 
28 Nov: The Greystones, Sheffield, UK 
29 Nov:  The Cellar, Oxford, UK 
30 Nov: O2 Ritz, Manchester, UK (w/ Jane Weaver) 
01 Dec: The Hall, Lancaster, UK 
02 Dec: The Taproom, London Fields Brewery, London, UK 
04 Dec: Henry Tudor House, Shrewsbury, UK 
05 Dec: Gwdihw, Cardiff, Wales 
06 Dec: Crofters Rights, Bristol, UK 
07 Dec: The Prince Albert, Stroud, UK 
08 Dec: Rialto Theatre, Brighton, UK 
09 Dec: Union Chapel (Daylight Music), London, UK 
09 Dec: Paper Dress Vintage, London, UK - SOLD OUT 
10 Dec: Lost Map's Strange Invitation, Strongroom Bar, London, UK  
11 Dec: The Stables 2, Milton Keynes, UK 
12 Dec: The Crescent, York, UK 
13 Dec: The Trades Club, Hebden Bridge, UK 
16 Dec: Xmas Baubles, Lost Map all-day event, Summerhall, Edinburgh 
27 Jan: Celtic Connections, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Scotland 
28 Jan: Celtic Connections, Drygate Brewery, Glasgow, Scotland

Pictish Trail - Lionhead (Acoustic)

Lost Map are excited to welcome latest signings Bas Jan, the London experimental post-punk trio built around the remarkable and distinctive voice and songs of multi-instrumentalist and composer Serafina Steer. A brilliant, bonkers, shape-shifting song about the weird tedium of a text message spat (“Drop it? Why don’t you drop it!”), Argument – available to stream and share now – is the first single to be revealed from Bas Jan’s forthcoming debut album Yes I Jan, due early 2018. The track was produced by Leo Abrahams. Serafina is one of the latest winners of the prestigious Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s Awards for Artists.

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David Thomas Jobson