Huw Costin fronts Torn Sail.  This is the new album featuring contributions from Mark Lanegan, Rachel Foster (Bent) and BJ Smith (Smith & Mudd).  

Track Listing - Birds/Ricochets (Featuring Mark Lanegan & E.R. Thorpe)/Self-Medication/Leave This World Behind/Treasure (Featuring Rachel Foster)/Gains On Gains.

Released 1st December 2017 on Cwm Saerbren Records.  Vinyl/DL available for preorder at: https://igg.me/at/TornSail/x/2710025

Torn Sail - This Short Sweet Life (clips)

Huw Costin 'Disconnected' - Released 10th June on SpecialSoundUnit
Taken from the album 'Something/Nothing'...

"Huw Costin makes classic records with an attention to detail not often heard anymore... 
achingly beautiful, direct and gentle poetry"
Mark Lanegan

It doesn’t take Huw Costin and his second solo album, ‘Something/Nothing’, long to get to the heart of the matter. Less than 45 seconds, in fact. Amidst grand orchestral sweeps and cannon shots of brass, the Nottingham based singer, songwriter and producer delivers the killer line: “Yes, I believe that we are doomed”. It’s not the most optimistic opening to an album, but anyone who’s heard Costin’s debut, ‘Regrets’, will know that lyrical transparency and candid sincerity are trademark qualities in his work. 

‘Something/Nothing’ exhibits a true understanding of the ebb and flow of romance, recalling the rush and passion of both love and loneliness and carrying out sometimes painful but always heartfelt post-mortems on now disintegrated relationships.

Musically the album is expansive, eloquent, and honest. From the opening, grandiose strains of ‘Doomed’ to the fragile closing chamber strings of ‘Butterfly Girls’, ‘Something/Nothing’ is far more than a standard singer/songwriter album, having far more in common with some of the artists Costin admire most: Robert Wyatt and Roy Harper, Brian Eno and The Beach Boys, Julian Cope and Joni Mitchell. You can hear them all: in the details his lyrics offer, in the minutiae of his arrangements and harmonies, in the lack of self-consciousness he demonstrates. 

There’s a longing in the delicate slow motion melody of ‘Move To The City’ and there’s comfort in the return to familiar faces and scenes that ‘December’ represents, its acoustic setting triumphantly swollen at the song’s end by brass. The title track is similarly soothing and  ‘Disconnected’ is a sweet, wide-eyed tune that threatens to blow wide open with trombone and e-bow. The album concludes with the short but charming ‘Butterfly Girls’, a plaintive acoustic number.

Costin has worked with both Brian Eno and Mark Lanegan but mostly his musical journey has been a ramble around the more obscure reaches of the indie world. He’s as influenced by folk, country and rock of the 60’s and 70’s as the Nottingham ambient scene of the early 90’s and has been compared to the likes of Big Star, Elbow and Jeff Buckley.

www.huwcostin.com


Huw Costin - Disconnected (Fight Fire With Fire remix)

The single 'Disconnected' taken from the album 'Something/Nothing'.
"...reminiscent of latter-day Radiohead..." The Line Of Best Fit

Buy the single here: http://tinyurl.com/bnxwjvb
Pre-order a limited edition signed copy of the album here: http://tinyurl.com/c8lk2n9

"Huw Costin makes classic records with an attention to detail not often heard anymore - achingly beautiful, direct and gentle poetry" - Mark Lanegan


Huw Costin 'Disconnected'

Huw Costin 'Something/Nothing' - Released 10th June on SpecialSoundUnit

"Huw Costin makes classic records with an attention to detail not often heard anymore - achingly beautiful, direct and gentle poetry" - Mark Lanegan

"…a modern-day Roy Harper" - Mojo

"A dizzying swirl of grandiose chamber pop, tragi-comic folk and doom balladry..." - Uncut

BUY THE ALBUM:
Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00BZTWZ44
Record Store: http://tinyurl.com/c8lk2n9
iTunes: http://tinyurl.com/l9lflct

It doesn’t take Huw Costin and his second solo album, ‘Something/Nothing’, long to get to the heart of the matter. Less than 45 seconds, in fact. Amidst grand orchestral sweeps and cannon shots of brass, the Nottingham based singer, songwriter and producer delivers the killer line: “Yes, I believe that we are doomed”. It’s not the most optimistic opening to an album, but anyone who’s heard Costin’s debut, ‘Regrets’, will know that lyrical transparency and candid sincerity are trademark qualities in his work. 

‘Something/Nothing’ exhibits a true understanding of the ebb and flow of romance, recalling the rush and passion of both love and loneliness and carrying out sometimes painful but always heartfelt post-mortems on now disintegrated relationships.

Musically the album is expansive, eloquent, and honest. From the opening, grandiose strains of ‘Doomed’ to the fragile closing chamber strings of ‘Butterfly Girls’, ‘Something/Nothing’ is far more than a standard singer/songwriter album, having far more in common with some of the artists Costin admire most: Robert Wyatt and Roy Harper, Brian Eno and The Beach Boys, Julian Cope and Joni Mitchell. You can hear them all: in the details his lyrics offer, in the minutiae of his arrangements and harmonies, in the lack of self-consciousness he demonstrates. 

There’s a longing in the delicate slow motion melody of ‘Move To The City’ and there’s comfort in the return to familiar faces and scenes that ‘December’ represents, its acoustic setting triumphantly swollen at the song’s end by brass. The title track is similarly soothing and  ‘Disconnected’ is a sweet, wide-eyed tune that threatens to blow wide open with trombone and e-bow. The album concludes with the short but charming ‘Butterfly Girls’, a plaintive acoustic number.

Costin has worked with both Brian Eno and Mark Lanegan but mostly his musical journey has been a ramble around the more obscure reaches of the indie world. He’s as influenced by folk, country and rock of the 60’s and 70’s as the Nottingham ambient scene of the early 90’s and has been compared to the likes of Big Star, Elbow and Jeff Buckley.


06 December

07 Sorry

08 Brain Damage

09 Disconnected

"Huw Costin makes classic records with an attention to detail not often heard anymore - achingly beautiful, direct and gentle poetry" - Mark Lanegan

"…a modern-day Roy Harper" - Mojo

"A dizzying swirl of grandiose chamber pop, tragi-comic folk and doom balladry..." - Uncut

BUY THE ALBUM:
Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00BZTWZ44
Record Store: http://tinyurl.com/c8lk2n9
iTunes: http://tinyurl.com/l9lflct

It doesn’t take Huw Costin and his second solo album, ‘Something/Nothing’, long to get to the heart of the matter. Less than 45 seconds, in fact. Amidst grand orchestral sweeps and cannon shots of brass, the Nottingham based singer, songwriter and producer delivers the killer line: “Yes, I believe that we are doomed”. It’s not the most optimistic opening to an album, but anyone who’s heard Costin’s debut, ‘Regrets’, will know that lyrical transparency and candid sincerity are trademark qualities in his work. 

‘Something/Nothing’ exhibits a true understanding of the ebb and flow of romance, recalling the rush and passion of both love and loneliness and carrying out sometimes painful but always heartfelt post-mortems on now disintegrated relationships.

Musically the album is expansive, eloquent, and honest. From the opening, grandiose strains of ‘Doomed’ to the fragile closing chamber strings of ‘Butterfly Girls’, ‘Something/Nothing’ is far more than a standard singer/songwriter album, having far more in common with some of the artists Costin admire most: Robert Wyatt and Roy Harper, Brian Eno and The Beach Boys, Julian Cope and Joni Mitchell. You can hear them all: in the details his lyrics offer, in the minutiae of his arrangements and harmonies, in the lack of self-consciousness he demonstrates. 

There’s a longing in the delicate slow motion melody of ‘Move To The City’ and there’s comfort in the return to familiar faces and scenes that ‘December’ represents, its acoustic setting triumphantly swollen at the song’s end by brass. The title track is similarly soothing and  ‘Disconnected’ is a sweet, wide-eyed tune that threatens to blow wide open with trombone and e-bow. The album concludes with the short but charming ‘Butterfly Girls’, a plaintive acoustic number.

Costin has worked with both Brian Eno and Mark Lanegan but mostly his musical journey has been a ramble around the more obscure reaches of the indie world. He’s as influenced by folk, country and rock of the 60’s and 70’s as the Nottingham ambient scene of the early 90’s and has been compared to the likes of Big Star, Elbow and Jeff Buckley.

10 Butterfly Girls

Huw Costin's 'Butterfly Girls' remixed by BJ Smith
Taken from the iTunes exclusive version of the album 'Something/Nothing'. 
Buy here: http://tinyurl.com/l9lflct

Huw Costin - Butterfly Girls (BJ Smith remix)

Inspired by Buckley, Cash, Drake, Cope and Kilmister, Costin writes songs for the mystified and heartbroken...

Huw Costin is a British singer-songwriter known for his emotional vocal style, melancholic lyrics, and a penchant for writing nifty pop songs when the mood takes him. He's worked with both Brian Eno and Mark Lanegan, but mostly, his musical journey has been a ramble around the more obscure reaches of the indie world. Known for his output with leftfield disco artists Smith & Mudd as well as rock bands Manatee, The Kull, and Earth The Californian Love Dream, Costin is currently writing and performing with his band Torn Sail, as well as putting the final touches to his second solo album. 

As influenced by the folk, country, and rock of the 60’s and 70’s as the Nottingham ambient scene of the early nineties, Costin has been compared to the likes of Big Star, Ian Brown, Elbow, and Jeff Buckley. 

His debut solo album - Regrets - found it’s way into the NME Yearbook as a top 10 album despite being unfinished and unreleased. The follow-up is just around the corner. 

Praise for Regrets: 

“It’s like the third Big Star album mixed with the Stone Roses… It’ll make you cry.” NME (Yearbook Top 10) 

“an emotive recollection of a love gone wrong” UNCUT ****

Huw Costin

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