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It gives Lost Map Records great pleasure to announce the return of Irish alt-folk/electronica and field recordings maestro Seamus Fogarty with the release of the brand new EP Ducks and Drakes. The four track collection is the first new material by the London-based songwriter to come out since his critically lauded debut album God Damn You Mountain was given a full release on Lost Map in February 2014 (“startlingly good” ★★★★★ – The Skinny). It arrives on September 4, 2015 on super limited-edition 12” vinyl with self-designed screen-printed sleeves (250 copies only) and as iTunes download, and will be preceded by a number of Irish dates and appearances at various festivals including Cloudspotting in Lancashire, the Port Eliot Festival in Cornwall and Lost Map’s Howlin’ Fringe! in Penicuik. The mesmerising video for the EP's title track 'Ducks & Drakes' made by Drew Dir of Manual Cinema is available to view and share now.
 
Seamus Fogarty’s soul-stirring blend of alt-folk, country, blues and electronica – performed by Seamus himself on a variety of instruments against a background of fragmented recordings and found sounds, from broken household appliances to snippets of random conversations with friends and neighbours  – is like nothing else in contemporary music: an intriguingly uneasy handshake between the ancient and the modern. Where God Damn You Mountain – recently hailed by Mercury Prize-nominated artist Jon Hopkins as “a shambolic masterpiece” in an interview with Mojo – was recorded in a cottage in the West of Ireland where he grew up, the Ducks & Drakes EP took shape in his adopted home of London. “The album was kind of me looking back where as these tunes are more about where I am now and how I got here,” says Seamus. “I’m from the country but soon I’ll have spent most of my life living in cities. Fields and rivers have been replaced by parks, ponds and the tube but I don’t think I’ll ever fully adjust to city life, and that’s fine with me. That’s probably why I fill songs with samples of various friends and neighbours I grew up with, to remind myself of where I come from, who I’ve met and where I’ve been.”
 
Motivated by the self-imposed challenge of “making something that sounded bigger even though the space I had to record and mix them was much smaller than what I had previously,” the songs see Seamus use more electronics, bass and drum machines among other tools. Over a finger-picked acoustic guitar phrase and a gently warping electronic beat, the title track features such varied ornamentation as Seamus’s first ever attempt at playing saxophone on a record and the dying wheezy whirr of his old washing machine as it completes its farewell cycle. There are hints of Smog about ‘Holyhead’, a woozy sea shanty set to queasy piano and banjo charting strange encounters on the evocative ferry journey from Holyhead to Dublin. Lasting over ten minutes and taking up the entirety of the record’s B-side, ‘A Mile Beneath The Broken Heart of London Town’ is a kaleidoscopic reflection on “searching for somewhere to call home,” melding what began as three separate compositions into a single dreamy, beautiful, haunting whole.

Seamus Fogarty - 'Ducks & Drakes'

Mixed, Masterd, Produced by Tim De Gieter
Recorded at Much Luv Studio

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Recorded with Rory Atwell

photo by Orfeo T

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THE POSTMAN
There he is, coming at the door 
Waiting for the call 
I’m not looking for some news at all 
I have enough of that on my phone
SLOWDOWN, WAIT ON THE SIDE SLOWDOWN, WAIT ON THE SIDE
And another go - I really don’t wanna answer that piece of wood / piece of wood 
I’m feeling just fine in the sofa (sinking jaws / sinking jaws) 
I’m stone from the paper flood - Hold on / Hold On 
I’m just gonna grab the globe I’m just gonna grab the globe ...
SLOWDOWN, WAIT ON THE SIDE SLOWDOWN, WAIT ON THE SIDE

THE POSTMAN

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L.A. WITCH

Feel Alright

RECORDED/ENGINEERED BY JOEL JEROME + LUCY MIYAKI
ARTWORK BY FELIPE RAMIREZ

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