A lullaby to soothe a weary, jaded stranger longing for the comfort of home, written at the end of a cold, dark winter day.

10 - Cobblestones

A song about grief, irreplaceable, much-missed old friends and the physical spaces they still inhabit in our imagination.

09 - Wingman

Conceived at the foot of the Black Mountains in Wales, this song explores the age-old relationship between man and untameable nature; how we can find and lose ourselves in landscapes.

08 - Black Mountain

The first co-written song by the album’s writers explores the ordinary magic of new love. This temporary madness transforms a cold, misty urban landscape into an angel chorus.

07 - Moonbeams

An upbeat and irreverent plea for healing in a love relationship that has faced too many storms and lost its anchor.

06 - Landslide

Written in a shepherd’s hut buried in the countryside of South Wales, this song maps the unravelling of a love affair with lyrically forensic detail.

05 - Hangman's Moon

A timeless, mature love song that draws its imagery from geological time and phenomena to capture a union that will outlive its writer. The inspiration for this song came from the marvellous book, Underland, written by the wonderful Robert MacFarlane.

04 - Deep Time

This classic country barroom ballad with a twist is an imagined conversation between History, the embittered, tired old voice of experience, and the narrator’s foolish yearning for love.

03 - History

An autobiographical song shaped by memories of the writer’s much-loved grandfather, Jack, who loved to walk in the Lancashire hills, even when she insisted on trailing behind him.

02 - Pendle Hill

This song was inspired by a conversation about the lost potential and the roads we don’t travel. It follows two dreamers who never leave their town of birth but journey by stargazing.

01 - Stargazing

A healthy dose of Americana with a tablespoon of Alternative Folk, Stargazing is the debut release from cosmic country supergroup Meltwater Ghosts.
Songwriters Rev Hammer and Sanchia Ryan and top flight producer Tim Powell-Morris are wonderfully supported by Ian Jennings on bass, Rupert McDonald on guitar and John Matthias on Fiddle and string arrangements. These ten songs, written in shepherd's huts and black mountainsides, tell tales of the wild southwest and roads less travelled, childhood memories and barroom encounters, love spanning geological epochs and friends gone but not forgotten. Let’s go stargazing along the west way.

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