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Susan Bear - Drift (SHEARS Remix)

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"This song deals with the way that trauma compounds trauma. I had done a lot of unlearning of engrained patriarchy during my last relationship, because I was finally being treated in a way that acknowledged the parts of me that always have a right to say no. I felt empowered to come into my own voice and claim it. When that relationship ended and I ventured back out into the world armed with this newfound sense of strength and agency, I came right back into contact with the same tropes whereby women feel pressured into accommodating discomfort, even in small ways. 

"I had an experience with someone that I was working on building trust with, and even though I would consider it a minor transgression, the ripple effect it elicited in me was profound… It touched on every single non-consensual experience I’ve had with men and made me realize the weight that I carry with me through my life at all times as a result. I’m not sure what to do with it, how to let it go... Most of the time I forget it’s there until something like this happens that opens it back up. In this situation I did use my voice, perhaps for the first time, but I simultaneously witnessed myself accommodating my discomfort in other ways by placing someone else’s feeling of entitlement to my body over that of my own. It just took me a few days of sitting with it to recognize it fully. " 
Alexia Avina

recorded by bernardo ochoa at stanhope
additional guitar by tom criblez
additional guitar effects by bernardo ochoa
drums by matti dunietz
mixed by alex desimine
mastered by justin pizzoferrato
photo by rita iovine

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Alexia Avina - 'How Can I Learn'

Lost Map presents Weird Wave - 'Big Jetty'

Savage Mansion - 'In The Garden'

SAVAGE MANSION LIVE:
THU, FEB 15 @ SUMMERHALL, EDINBURGH
SAT, FEB 17 @ RUM SHACK, GLASGOW

STREAM 'Present Tense' / PRE-ORDER ALBUM: https://li.sten.to/savagemansion-presenttense

A dark true-life tale wrapped in a dissonant jangle that imagines Richard Thompson playing the Velvet Underground, ‘Present Tense’ is the latest new track from Glasgow-based slanted indie-rock five-piece Savage Mansion. Released as part of Lost Map’s PostMap Club subscription service in the month of December (b/w ‘Night School’), it’s the latest taste of the band’s forthcoming fourth album The Shakes, which will be released on limited-edition 12” vinyl and digital services on February 16, 2024. It’s Savage Mansion’s most exciting record yet – a set of 11 songs which better than ever capture the explosive live energy of a band whose best gig is always their next gig, rooted in a deep well of emotion, and the rigorously thought-through reasoning of writers thoroughly in love with their influences.
 
“This is a band favourite,” says Craig about ‘Present Tense’. “I didn’t think much of it at the time, but the minute Andy and I started playing it together it felt like a keeper. It’s about my high school English teacher who had an affair with a kid. It was messy and horrible, and registering it as a 13/14-year-old you didn’t really take it in properly. I remember bringing it up at the pub and everyone had a similar story, at least one. The themes of the record are varied but I suppose it’s reckoning with the animal inside us. This is the extremity of that thematic idea. That sort of impulse… I don’t have to cast judgement on it. What is there to say? Some things are inexcusable.”

The Shakes

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Savage Mansion - 'Present Tense'

Savage Mansion - 'Autofiction'

Savage Mansion - 'O Sister'

Savage Mansion - 'Myths Persist'

Savage Mansion - 'The Shakes'

Savage Mansion - 'Night School'

Savage Mansion - 'The Way Out'

Savage Mansion - 'Total Colombia'

Savage Mansion - 'The Second Life'

Kinbote - 'Persephone'

Kinbote - 'OnoSecond'

Kinbote - 'Thousand Smiles'

Kinbote - 'Catching the Bullet'

Kinbote - 'Rotate'

Kinbote - 'Petrol, Sushi'

Kinbote - 'Drift'

Kinbote - 'Daily Vlogger'

Kinbote - 'Repulse'

Victoria Hume - 'Bad Lover'

Victoria Hume - 'Steady State'

Victoria Hume - 'Daughter's Song'

Victoria Hume - 'Borrowers'

Victoria Hume - 'Barbarians'

Afterlands - Whale Song

Afterlands - 'Geese Flying In Broken Patterns'

Afterlands - 'I Woke To The Sound Of The Wind'

Susan Bear - Drift

Kinbote - 'Lowe Sunsmasher' (Susan Bear Remix)

Susan Bear - 'It's You' (Kinbote Remix)

'Shake (Say Yes)' is released on all streaming services 15th January 2024 and is available as a postcard (with the Kinbote remix of It's You) as part of January's PostMap Club. Go to lostmap.com/club to join.

Susan Bear - 'Shake (Say Yes)'

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SDF - 'European Bar'

'Drift' features on Suse's new album, 'Algorithmic Mood Music', available to pre-order now on Lost Map Records. The SHEARS remix will be released on all digital platforms on 24th April 2024 and as part of April's PostMap Club - go to lostmap.com/club to join.

Susan Bear - 'Drift'

In the first in a series of brand new PostMap collectable postcard singles, it gives Lost Map Records great pleasure to introduce Martha Ffion, with her double-shot of infectious surf-grunge guitars and ethereal girl-group vocals ‘No Applause’ / ‘Lead Balloon’. Recorded and produced by Tuff Love’s Suse Bear, who also plays bass on the tracks, and featuring The Phantom Band’s Ian Stewart on drums and Poor Things’ Craig Angus on lead guitar, the single marks a major step forward for the Glasgow-based Irish singer-songwriter, AKA Claire Martha Ffion McKay, who has been making a head-turning name for herself on the local scene, sharing stages with the likes of Jessica Pratt and C Duncan.

‘No Applause’ / ‘Lead Balloon’ follows on from the success of Martha’s 2014 debut EP ‘Go’, and marks a major development in her sound. Performing with a full band for the past year has transformed Martha’s songwriting process, and the new material has adopted a punchier edge with echoes of Sharon Van Etten, Angel Olsen and Courtney Barnett. But her core influences remain consistent and tangible: 60s icons like The Beatles, the Shangri-Las and Nancy Sinatra. There’s a hint of Blondie too, especially in the wry delivery of ‘Lead Balloon’s’ vocals, and a lyric which, with the deceptive bounciness of The Go-Gos, deals bluntly with familial breakdown and oppressive gender roles. The tracks are a taster for Martha’s forthcoming second EP, which will be recorded this summer at Glasgow’s Green Door Studios as part of their Super Groups project.

Martha Ffion’s new single comes as part of a collectable set of three PostMap releases (snail-mailed printed postcards stamped with a message from the artist and a unique download code), which will also include the Lost Map Sampler #2 (PostMap 01°01) and Randolph’s Leap’s ‘Isle Of Love’ EP (PostMap 01°02). The postcards will be priced £1 each, or can be bought as a set of 3 for £2. They will be made available exclusively from lostmap.com on May 26, 2015.

MARTHA FFION LIVE DATES:

SAT, JUN 6 @ B FESTIVAL, BALLOCH CASTLE COUNTRY PARK
JUL 24-25 @ WICKERMAN FESTIVAL, DUNDRENNAN
SAT, AUG 8 @ MUGSTOCK FESTIVAL, GLASGOW

Martha Ffion - 'No Applause'

It gives Lost Map great pleasure to introduce Manuela, the London-based project comprising vocalist and songwriter Manuela Gernedel and multi-instrumentalist and producer Nick McCarthy (Franz Ferdinand, FFS), with the release of their debut single ‘Cracks in the Concrete’. Out now as a PostMap postcard single and download, available exclusively from lostmap.com, and accompanied by a thumping disco remix B-side by London DJ Nadia Ksaiba, it’s a joyous introduction to their addictive, eclectic, off-the- wall and instantly refreshing DIY pop sound, and a perfect taster of their forthcoming debut album.

Manuela - 'Cracks In The Concrete'

Lost Map Records are delighted to welcome the return of London’s Lazy Day, following their now sold-out Record Store Day 2015 split 7” single with Tuff Love (‘Portait’ / ‘Groucho’). The lo-fi dreamy-grunge quartet’s new track ‘Disappear’ – which is available to stream and share now, after premiering via Line of Best Fit – will be released as a 7” single on November 4, 2016. Lazy Day will play live at Lost Map’s Future Echoes all-dayer at Edinburgh’s Leith Theatre on Saturday, October 1 as well as at shows in Brighton and London in coming weeks.

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

All artwork for the release done by Eleanor Crewes Illustration

Performing on the tracks are:

Vocals & guitars – Tilly Scantlebury
Drums & backing vocals – Beni Evans
Bass – Jonny Coddington

Lazy Day are: Tilly, Beni, Jonny, Liam

Lazy Day - 'Disappear'

Taken from the forthcoming PostMap release - a printed postcard, with download code. lostmap.com/postcard-shop

Lost Map Records are delighted to announce new material by London and Manchester based spoken word artist, writer and saxophonist Angus Fairbairn AKA Alabaster dePlume. A PostMap postcard single features a remix of ‘What Do We Want’ by Teleman drummer Hiro Ama, plus a version of ‘Who Are You Asking For’ recorded live at the Total Refreshment Centre in London as part of Alabaster’s monthly development residency PEACH. Both tracks will be included on a bonus disc set to be packaged with a deluxe repressing of the wonderfully uncategorisable album The Corner of a Sphere, which is set for release February 1, 2019, after the original pressing quickly sold-out on vinyl following its release in May. Alabaster dePlume is touring widely in coming months, including a newly announced headline show at Hangar in London on Saturday, February 2 – his biggest headline show to date. 

As Alabaster explains, ‘What Do We Want’ is a song about “our refusal to include people from disadvantaged backgrounds in our society, while celebrating competitive accumulation of wealth… which implies that there is something we all want, that’s better than our general wellbeing, better than one-another. What is it?” The track’s theme about society-at-large’s fear of immigration, and refugees, is reflected in the artwork, a retelling of the poem as a sinister, bureaucratic government form.


* LIVE DATES *
THU, OCT 18-FRI, OCT 19 @ JAZZ & THE CITY, SALZBURG, AUSTRIA
SAT, OCT 20 @ GIB LAUT FESTIVAL, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
THU, OCT 25 @ KALTERN POP, SOUTH TIROL, ITALY
SAT, OCT 27 @ ATELIER 201, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
FRI, NOV 9 @ KIN, ARNOLFINI, BRISTOL
SAT, NOV 10 @ LE GUESS WHO? FESTIVAL, UTRECHT, NETHERLANDS
SAT, DEC 1 @ WEST HILL HALL, BRIGHTON
SAT, DEC 8 @ PYMÉ THEATRE, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
SAT, FEB 2 @ HANGAR, LONDON

Alabaster dePlume - 'What Do We Want' (Hiro Ama remix)

V I S I T ▲ T I O N S // 0 1 0 3

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SLOW TREE's blissfully somnambulant soundscapes are the work of Neil Hamilton Wilkinson and Abi Fry - two residents of the neighbouring Isle of Skye, and members of indomitable pastoral-rock titans, British Sea Power. 

This final act in our first series of V I S I T A T I O N S captures the drawing light and darkened heavens of the mid-November mists under which it was recorded. Across four tracks of cinematic dream-folk, Slow Tree manipulate the natural reverb of the island’s caves, allowing hushed vocals, ethereal piano and sweeping viola to glide alongside the strains of swirling birds in song. “Let’s go on a journey to the last island of beauty”

Slow Tree - 'May All Beings'

ISLE OF EIGG. MUSIC, MUSIC, PARTY TIMES, MUSIC, PARTY.

BAS JAN, Alabaster dePlume, Firestations, Josie Long, Tuff Love, Insect Heroes, Rozi Plain, Kid Canaveral, Seamus Fogarty, Randolph’s Leap, eagleowl, Monoganon, Victoria Hume, Ichi & Pictish Trail.

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