Lost Map presents Weird Wave - 'Big Jetty'

RACHAEL DADD - Strike Our Scythes

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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Lazy Day - 'Portrait'

Firestations – Many White Horses

'Many White Horses' is a collection of sea-soaked acoustic songs and instrumentals, interwoven with field recordings and lyrics drawn from the immediate surroundings of a sailing expedition, all brought together with warm, textured production. It marks Mike Cranny’s first solo endeavour, playing a variety of instruments and self-producing, albeit one enriched by Laura Copsey’s contributions on flugelhorn, flute and vocals.

The album was conceived and largely written at the beginning of August 2024 on a sailing yacht (Sail Britain’s “Merlin”) in the Inner Hebrides. This was the location for a week-long art residency with seven fellow artist-explorers all keen to capture something of the essence of being at sea and viewing the land from the sea. The voyage, through high winds and waves, took in the mysterious Isle of Rum and the coastline around Arisaig, before Mike and Laura continued the journey for a further week; travelling around the Ardnamurchan peninsula, across the Isles of Mull and Ulva to end up off-grid on the remote Isle of Gometra. 

While the music, with its focus on quietly hypnotic, hushed acoustic instrumentation, may at first appear something of a departure from the last five-piece band Firestations album ‘Thick Terrain’, it remains closely related and recognisable by Mike’s song writing style. It also occupies a similar space to the ‘Sunken Versions’ – quieter and slower songs (featuring on the ‘Automatic Tendencies’ EP series in particular) that focus on the more meditative, stripped back side of the band.

The title track ‘Many White Horses’ was the first song to be written, making use of an aging sea-warped boat guitar that Mike discovered could only be played in an open tuning, with a capo higher up the fret board. Mike says: “The limitations of this guitar proved to be a gateway to other songs – the chord progressions and melodies had to be simple to avoid tuning nightmares, and where I might have ordinarily decided that a song was too straightforward, on the boat I didn’t have a choice but to persevere with simple song ideas. It turns out that limitations can be liberating”. The first single from the album ‘A Weight Starts To Lift’ was written a bit later and shows Mike exploring the possibilities of the open tuning “maybe the trickiest fingerpicking I’ve ever attempted”. 

The communal living conditions on the boat and the camaraderie developed through the everyday routine, and in other artist’s processes, made for a fertile environment. Laura, as expedition leader, provided a series of creative prompts, shaped by archipelago poetics. Moments and provocations that filtered into lyrics and rhythms included a collaboration with a square meter of earth, seeking out an audience on a micro scale, and reading laminated sheets of poetry in the sea. Field recordings and found instruments also give the compositions a strong sense of place and carry the listener across rough seas and onto remote islands.



Biography

Firestations (Lost Map Records) span genres from shoegaze to alt-pop and harmony-driven psychedelia. Their second album, The Year Dot, released in 2018, was followed by sonic collage album Dream Home in 2020 and the Automatic Tendencies EP project in 2020-21. The latter took the form of three EPs over a six-month period, each including alternative “sunken” versions by the band as well as covers and remixes of the band’s tracks by other artists. Thick Terrain, released in 2023, saw Firestations return to album format with ten tracks ranging from hypnotic sci-fi landscapes to addictive dream-pop jangles, exploring ideas around identity, conflict, progress and sanity. Bandmembers are Mike Cranny, Laura Copsey, Martin Thompson (aka Bit Cloudy), Tom Hargreaves and Neil Walsh.

Firestations - All The Way Back Down Here

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The flawless new #PostMap single from Dominie Hooper.

Included in May's delivery of Lost Map's PostMap club. Join today from just £3 a month to get the exclusive postcard single:

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See Dominie Hooper live

4th May - Drewe Arms Community Pub, Drewsteignton
5th May - The Exchange, Bristol
6th May - SJQ, London (sold out)
28th-31st August - Smugglers Festival, Kent

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Words & Music: Dominie Hooper
Producer: Ben Hillier

Vocals & Cello: Dominie Hooper
Guitar: Phil Self
Drums: Dave Hamblett

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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'

Lost Map Records are excited to welcome the long-awaited return of Manuela, the London and Munich based project comprising of vocalist and songwriter Manuela Gernedel and multi-instrumentalist and producer Nick McCarthy (formerly of Franz Ferdinand and FFS). Released as part of Lost Map’s PostMap Club subscription service in the month of May and available to stream and share now, Manuela’s first brand new music since 2017, ‘Coniine’, is a bittersweet off-kilter pop song about poison, death, beauty and innocence, featuring guest vocals from Laetitia Sadier, singer with legendary Anglo-French avant-pop band Stereolab. Manuela are heading out on tour next week, supporting Stereolab at dates around Europe, with more new music set to follow later in 2025.
 
About ‘Coniine’ Manuela writes: 
 
“Coniine is a poisonous chemical compound, which can be found in the plant hemlock and causes a paralysis of the nervous system, starting from the feet upwards. Infamously Socrates was sentenced to death by drinking a cup of poison hemlock. I wrote this song for a friend of ours who very sadly passed away a few years ago. His struggle is described via a chase and scramble through a desolate plain. However, the overall tone of the song is distinctly sweet and rich as to celebrate the beauty and innocence of the person and his life.”
 
A joyous gem of addictive, eclectic, off-the-wall and instantly refreshing DIY pop, Manuela’s self-titled debut album was released on Lost Map in 2017 and is long-since sold out on 12” vinyl. Austrian Manuela and her British-born husband Nick have been making music together since they first met at a youth club summer party in the late 90s in Bavaria, Germany, where they both grew up. They moved to Glasgow together some years later after Manuela, who is a visual artist, was offered a place at Glasgow School of Art to study painting. While living in Glasgow, Manuela performed with the band White Nights, who released one 7” EP via Paul Thompson’s NEW! label. Nick went on to join Franz Ferdinand, sell millions of records and tour the world, all the while continuing to make music with Manuela as Box Codax together with their long-term friend Alexander Ragnew, releasing two well-received albums Only An Orchard Away in 2006 and Hellabuster in 2011.
 
Manuela’s self-titled debut album received widespread support and acclaim from the likes of Pitchfork, Stereogum, Drowned in Sound, The Line of Best Fit, The Skinny and more. Forthcoming new material from the band is some of their strongest work to date – wry pop tunes with playful humour, sparkling production and lush arrangements to get swept away in completely.

Manuela - 'Coniine' (ft Lætitia Sadier)

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M.O.S.S.

Owen & The Eyeballs - Baby

Owen & The Eyeballs - Moonhead

Leytonstone

Black Triangle

No More News

Apple/Alien

Everything Ends

Wedding Rites

Big Lake

The Archetype

Ishaaq Aarkistra - 'Grunderna'

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'

‘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'

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.

Bas Jan - 'Argument'

Firestations - Receiver

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)

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

Amy May Ellis, 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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