Soooo glad to have you back Neil! Heartbroken after Meursault came to an end, but this stuff sounds inventive, full of ideas and pretty darn beautiful!! Crossing fingers for some SW England visits in the future. Massive congrats on this and masses of best wishes! :) x

Something simply irresistible about this track

Visions (feat. Shield Patterns)

Ode To 'Gremlin

This sanctuary cannot be your home
so take comfort in this shelter before it's gone.

But what if morning cannot shake this thought?
What if the sun cannot dispel this feeling I have got?
How will I carry on?

Oh, the wind will blow
all the drowned aboard
for that final push
to that golden shore
and there will be no rest
and we will get to where we are going.

When we can go no further
and our hands are sore
from collecting the pieces
of the glass that broke
that once framed a picture
of some distant shore
we called home.

I know that the last thing the world needs now
is another song about the fucking sea.

But as you know I am heartbroken
and there is more of it than there is of me.

(For Cammy)

Ode To Gremlin

Debut album Pictures From the Blackout released 8th February 2016 on vinyl and download.

Album launch (with Frog): Wee Red Bar, Lauriston Place, January 29th 2016. £5.

Plastic Animals define themselves as atmospheric sludge rock, and that works pretty well for me. It's indie rock, I suppose, but flavoured with shoegaze and krautrock (particularly in some of the longer ones), and in fact, as can happen with this kind of music, some of the longest and most impenetrable tracks are probably the album's standout songs.

To say that things around Plastic Animals tend to move slowly would be an understatement. Apparently they've been around in one form or another for as long as Eagleowl, who are a sort of Edinburgh byword for taking your own sweet time with your music, but Eagleowl's debut album came out in 2013 and erm... here we still are.

It even affected us, in the end. This was recorded and the final mixes okayed over the course of almost two painstaking years, and STILL we spent months going back and forth over the tracklisting, and we're usually the kind of people who can get through that kind of job in a single evening.

Mario Cruzado: guitar/vox
Ben Slade: guitar
Jean Michel Morin: keys
Dave Wark: bass
James Lynch: drums

Buy on vinyl

Plastic Animals - Ghosts

Wreckless Eric releases his new album, 'amERICa', his first solo album in nearly a decade. 

He heads to Europe for a tour this winter.

Wreckless Eric 
05 Nov: Rough Trade Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
06 Nov: The Poppy & Pint, Nottingham, UK 
12 Nov: Bierstindl, Innsbruck, Austria
13 Nov: Chelsea, Vienna, Austria
15 Nov: Monarch, Berlin, Germany 
16 Nov: Nikkifaktur, Dresden, Germany
17 Nov: Hasenschaukel, Hamburg, Germany 
18 Nov: The Tube, Düsseldorf, Germany 
19 Nov: Patronaat, Haarlem, Netherlands 
20 Nov: Blau, Mannheim, Germany 
21 Nov: Swamp, Freiburg, Germany 
28 Nov: The Met, Bury, Lancashire, UK 
29 Nov: The Dulcimer, Chorlton, UK 
30 Nov: The Junction, Cambridge, UK 
01 Dec: Arts Centre, Colchester, UK 
02 Dec: The Komedia, Brighton, UK
03 Dec: The Old Church, Stoke Newington, London, UK 
04 Dec: Café Reflections, Southampton, UK 
05 Dec: Ritz Bingo Hall, Penzance, UK 
06 Dec: Marr’s Bar, Worcester, UK 
07 Dec: Zephyr Lounge, Leamington Spa, Leamington, UK 
08 Dec: The Old Church, Stoke Newington, London, UK 
10 Dec: CCA, Glasgow, Scotland
11 Dec: Citrus Club, Edinburgh, Scotland 
16 Dec: Kardomah 94, Hull, UK
17 Dec: The Musician, Leicester 


Wreckless Eric - Days Of My Life

On 26th September 2016 Song, by Toad Records will release the debut EP by Edinburgh artist and songwriter Faith Eliott on cassette and download.

The majority of the songs on this release were written over the course of three months, whilst Faith was living in rural Nebraska. Much of the dense and often-surreal lyrical content reflects this landscape, which is pancake-flat and dotted with collapsing barns, rotting farm machinery and teeming with insects. 

The EP consists of a diverse set of songs. The opening track ‘Pyrite Ammonite’ is poppy and dynamic, whilst the closer, ’Possum’, is a five minute spoken word track, awash with drones and the sound of screeching cicadas. The baritone guitars, mellotrons and vocal harmonies hint at something grandiose, but the songs retain a lo-fi quality. 

At its most raw, the EP includes the song ‘So Do I’, which was recorded in a barn in Nebraska using a dictaphone, with howling wind audible in the background. The remaining tracks were recorded by Alan McCormack (of Now Wakes the Sea), who also plays on the record, and whose experimental approach to recording and composition brings unexpected layers and textures to Faith’s acoustic/folk sensibilities. 

Faith grew up in Minnesota and moved to Edinburgh just over 10 years ago. Though they (Faith prefers gender-neutral pronouns) have taken part in numerous creative collaborations over the years (The Sea Is Salt, Withered Hand, Supermoon, etc.), this is the first time they have put together a release exclusively of their own songs. This has in part been down to the process of exploring outwards from visual art and poetry before fixating on songwriting three or four years ago. 

These days, Faith continues to make visual art and exhibits regularly around the city. They are also part of Edinburgh’s Far Yella Collective, a loosely collaborative collection of visual artists, musicians and writers

Faith will be playing a launch night in September in the Happiness Hotel, our new warehouse recording space down in Leith, as well as at our annual label Christmas party on the 2nd December.

Insects

Buy on cassette

Faith Eliott - Pyrite Ammonite

Loch Awe - I Will Drift Into 10,000 Streams

Hello, I am Meursault, I hope you are well.

All songs & illustrations by Neil Pennycook

Ode To Gremlin

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