Debuted in my weekly personal chart on November 26, 2017 edition :)

love this song love the decending run of notes throughout the song great vocals too

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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.”

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Savage Mansion - 'Present Tense'

A meditation on ageing drawing inspiration from the poetry of Dave Berman and the esoteric pop of Arthur Russell, ‘There Goes My Habit’ is the addictive new track from Glasgow-based slanted indie-rock five-piece Savage Mansion. 

'There Goes My Habit' is streaming now and included as an exclusive postcard single as part of October's delivery of our #postmap club.

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Savage Mansion - 'There Goes My Habit'

Two White Cranes - 'City Streets'

‘It’s You’ is the brand-new track by queer pop producer Susan Bear (FKA Good Dog), a much respected and sought-after stalwart of the Scottish music scene and a lynchpin of Lost Map Records. The standalone single marks a new direction for Suse after two well-received albums, by leaning further into her electronic side – still melancholy, tape-y vibes, but this time upping the energy, taking influence from club and dance music. “‘It’s You’ is about going on a mad nostalgia trip,” says Suse, “and your brain tricking yourself into thinking the past is always better than the present.” It comes with a video visualiser by Glasgow 3D artist/designer and DJ VAJ.Power, and is backed with an exclusive remix by award-winning avant-garde musician Lara Jones.  
 
Whether as bassist, keyboardist, guitarist, producer, songwriter, sound-designer, or something in between, Suse has variously worked with Lost Map artists including Tuff Love, Pictish Trail and Martha Ffion, as well as The Pastels, Tracyanne & Danny, Malcolm Middleton, Poster Paints, Karine Polwart, Amandah Wilkinson (Bossy Love), Goodnight Louisa and on a variety of theatre projects. Her debut solo album Creature was released in 2020 and featured the Spotify and Apple Music playlisted song ‘Floating’ (“Gentle, dreamy mood music” – The Scotsman). It was followed in 2022 by the album Alter, which received support from BBC 6 Music’s Radcliffe & Maconie and Amy Lamé and BBC Radio Scotland’s Vic Galloway and Roddy Hart. More new music from Susan Bear will follow in 2024.

Susan Bear - 'It's You'

Stillness EP

Firestations - 'Stillness' (Sulk Rooms Remix)

Victoria Hume - 'Bad Lover'

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

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

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Lost Map Records are excited to announce the brand new single from Kid Canaveral, ‘First We Take Dumbarton'. It’s the first track to be previewed from the Glasgow and Edinburgh-based band’s third album Faulty Inner Dialogue – due for release this summer – and represents the first official new music Kid Canaveral have released since 2013’s Now That You Are A Dancer. The band will embark on a
short Scottish tour in May and appear at festivals this summer including Long Division in Wakefield (see below for a full list of dates).

SAT, APR 30 @ DIY POPFEST 2016, SHACKLEWELL ARMS, LONDON
SUN, MAY 8 @ HENRY’S CELLAR BAR, EDINBURGH (ACOUSTIC)
THU, MAY 26 @ HOOTANANNY (MAD HATTERS), INVERNESS
FRI, MAY 27 @ AN TOBAR, TOBERMORAY, ISLE OF MULL
SAT, MAY 28 @ THE HUG AND PINT, GLASGOW
SUN, MAY 29 @ DOWNSTAIRS, ABERDEEN
SAT, JUN 11 @ LONG DIVISION FESTIVAL, WAKEFIELD

Kid Canaveral - First We Take Dumbarton

A dizzying and very danceable dispatch of ghostly electro all about attempted discourse with the dead and accepting that what is gone is gone, ‘Dead Connection’ is the latest track to be previewed from Pictish Trail’s forthcoming new album FUTURE ECHOES.

The album comes out on Friday September 9th, and is available to pre-order on gatefold LP (on clear vinyl), or deluxe CD from Lost Map's website: http://lostmap.com/products/pictish-trail-future-echoes

Future Echoes

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Pictish Trail - 'Dead Connection'

Savage Mansion - 'Do You Say Hello To Your Neighbours?'

Firestations - 'Build A Building'

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'

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.

Firestations - 'Build A Building'

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