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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'

Kinbote - 'Rotate'

‘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)

Dub Series w/ Kairogen & Niamh Jobson - Radio Buena Vida 05.04.24

Forthcoming PostMap Club release, out February 1st - with two exclusive b-sides.

'The Circular' is taken from Firestations upcoming Melted Medium EP - which will be released on March 5th 2021. Pre-orders will be available soon.

Firestations - 'The Circular'

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.

Firestations - 'The Circular'

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