Around the World (Daft Punk) - Maxence Cyrin

"Horseshoe" is the first single from Withered Hand's album "New Gods," and features a guest appearance from Pam Berry (Black Tambourine) on backing vocals.

Fortuna POP! (UK/Europe) and Slumberland Records (US/Canada) are proud to announce the new album by the Edinburgh based folk-rock troubadour Dan Willson who records as WITHERED HAND. “New Gods” is his stunning second album, following his critically acclaimed debut “Good News”.

Active in the world of visual art and dabbling in music for many years, Withered Hand’s Dan Willson came late to singing and songwriting at age 30, in a period of reflection between the death of a close friend and the birth of his first child. The resultant material, much of which went on to become the album “Good News,” has been praised for its depth and startling honesty.

Withered Hand has been embraced by Fife-based musical powerhouse the Fence Collective (whose sovereign King Creosote guests on the new album), seen his songs picked up on MTV and cult series Skins, and gained a legion of fans including Jarvis Cocker and Rolling Stone Magazine USA (who decreed him “Artist to Watch”).

A prolific live performer, recent Withered Hand shows have included collaborations with Pam Berry of seminal 90's US noise-pop band Black Tambourine and a rotating cast of musical friends embellishing Dan's exuberant and original songwriting alongside fragile and uplifting solo performances.

The long-awaited second album (produced by Tony Doogan – Mountain Goats/Belle & Sebastian etc - and part-funded by arts council body Creative Scotland) features guest appearances from the likes of Pam Berry, Eugene Kelly of The Vaselines and members of Belle & Sebastian and Frightened Rabbit.

The five years since “Good News” was recorded has seen Willson honing his songcraft, building his audience and gaining critical momentum. “New Gods” is a beautifully executed collection of songs from one of Scotland’s most gifted songwriters.

“Beautifully constructed lyrical frameworks ... on this banjo-tinged brand of Caledonian gospel” – **** MOJO

“the UK’s best lyricist” – King Creosote, in The Independent

“Killer melodies ... wobbly folk grooves ... tunes full of warm, woozy sing-song charm” – 'Artist to Watch', Rolling Stone

Withered Hand - Horseshoe

The Curse - Agnes Obel

The National - I Need My Girl

HALLS - LOVE TO GIVE (EXTENDED EDITION)

Live // 25th July at Hoxton Bar and Kitchen w/ The Bedroom. Tickets: http://www.seetickets.com/event/halls/hoxton-square-bar-kitchen/792764

From second album 'Love To Give', out now through No Pain In Pop. Extended Edition due August 2014, featuring album outtakes, covers and new material.

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Halls - the solo project of 23 year old South London musician Sam Howard - released a debut album, ‘Ark’, in November 2012.

A long twelve months later - after rapt reviews and a stint modelling for Hedi Slimane in Paris - Howard’s second album is here, and the changes are marked.

“This is an album about opening up. Ark is the cold album, closed-off, obscure and confusing. I obscured lyrics and hid behind reverb and mumbling. For this album I wanted to reach out more. In some ways it is darker than Ark. I feel that I struggle to connect with a lot of people and I want to connect somehow. Love to Give is about opening up and becoming more of a human being.”

In his new work, Howard has replaced apprehension and doubt with a muted hope, and just as the sentiment has shifted, as too the compositions and arrangements have moved into the real world. Ark’s electronic templates have ceded to - as Howard says - “embrace the sound of human beings”, and the instrumental palate has widened: brass, tuned percussion, woodwinds, and organs now flesh out the tracks, with digital percussion only used for texture rather than structure. Much was recorded in a theatre in London’s Woolwich, with Howard’s vocals recorded naturally in the large main hall, and passing traffic and street noise can be heard faintly throughout the album.

Opening track ‘Love To Give’ builds from hymnal acoustic reverie to a wall-of-noise breakdown, before ending on a military brass finale; the seven minute centrepiece ‘Aria’ leads with a solo xylophone into interweaving Kraut percussion and strings lines; ‘Forelsket’ contains a freeform pitch-shifted saxophone, evoking Sun Ra alongside a Justin Vernon vocal line and symphonic swells; and closer ‘Body Eraser / Avalanche’ ends the album on a few minutes of haunting ambience.

The album is not a clean listen; lyrics and vocal melodies are still lost occasionally to the music, creating an hazy, sometimes impenetrable aura, and even the direct, sparser guitar-and-voice-tracks ‘Aside’ or ‘You Must Learn To Live Again’ rely on a heavy atmosphere rather than narrative. Instead of relying on clearer melodic control, what is more apparent is the growth in Howard’s compositions - his ability to breathe life in to sentiments of cold confusion and loss across dense, shifting arrangements.

Halls - The Greatest (Cat Power cover)

Don't Swallow The Cap (The National)

My son killed himself because of you (all plats)

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Lyrics

Everything I could have done
Everything I should have said
All these things that I regret
Makes it harder to accept
To see you in your Summer dress
With someone else in your bed
So many things I wish I said
So many things that I regret

You look so amazing
I want to be where you are but I'm fading
In and out of your life like the evening
But the sun won't be back in the morning
I'm better off sleeping
You look so amazing
I want to be where you are but I'm fading
In and out of your life like the evening
But the sun won't be back in the morning
I'm better off dreaming

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Hider - You Look So Amazing

This is my cover of "Old Souls" from the movie "Phantom of the Paradise".  All the music in this film was written by Paul Williams.

"Old Souls" from Phantom of the Paradise (cover)

S. Carey - Avalanche

'Sundark and Riverlight' is a very personal collection of songs from Patricks extensive 10 year career. A selection of tracks from Lycanthropy, Wind In the Wires, The Magic Position, The Bachelor, Lupercalia and Brumalia, rearranged and recorded acoustically at Peter Gabriels Real World Studios.

Patrick’s vocal sings out against the backdrop of his musicianship on Celtic Harp, Harpsichord/spinet, Grand Piano, Baritone Ukulele, Mountain Dulcimer and Viola and he is joined by a guest musicians on double bass, bodhrum drum, musical saw, guitar and Woodwind and String Quartets. Also featuring international spoken word contributions from fans on Bermondsey Street.

Patrick starts an extensive world tour August 29th in Londons Old Vic Theatre. Continuing onto Australia, USA and than back to Europe for dates in Germany, Italy , Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, France and the UK with touring in many more territories planned to continue into 2013 followed by Festival performances Summer 2013.

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Pre-Order 'Sundark and Riverlight' from www.patrickwolf.com.

Free limited edition fanzine with all Vinyl & CD pre-orders.

Fanzine, made by Patrick, features drawings, unseen photographs and stories behind all the songs and productions.

Don't Swallow The Cap (The National)

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