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Winter Springs

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Tiny Tongues

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Thread to the Wheel

This Hand

Love You, Bye

Geese

Sweet One

Yeah, You See Her

Modern Studies' debut album Swell to Great is out on digital, CD and vinyl on Song, by Toad Records on the 12th September 2016.

https://songbytoadrecords.bandcamp.com/album/swell-to-great

Modern Studies are a chamber pop band from Glasgow-via-Yorkshire. Their quietly experimental landscape songs are played on analogue synths, cello, double bass, drums, guitars, a wine-glass orchestra and, at the creaking centre of things, a Victorian pedal harmonium.

The band came together in early 2015, when Glasgow songwriter Emily Scott recruited old pals and collaborators Pete Harvey (King Creosote, The Leg), Joe Smillie (boss of Glasgow’s The Glad Cafe) and Rob St. John.

Working throughout the year at Pumpkinfield – Pete’s rural Perthshire studio – the band shaped a set of Emily’s skeleton songs, drawing largely from the salt and spray of the sea. This communal arts-und-crafts-werk resulted in their debut LP ‘Swell to Great’ (named after a stop on the wheezing old harmonium), which will be released on Song, by Toad Records of Edinburgh, Scotland in September 2016.

The band also began an ongoing collaboration with London-based label Earth Recordings in 2015, contributing a Shirley Collins cover ‘The Bold Fisherman’ to the ‘Shirley Inspired’ tribute LP. More releases with Earth are planned for later in the year.

Modern Studies will play a selection of UK shows and festivals throughout 2016.

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Taken from Modern Studies' debut album 'Swell to Great', out on 12" LP, CD and digital on Song, by Toad Records on the 12th September 2016.

songbytoadrecords.bandcamp.com/album/swell-to-great

Modern Studies are a chamber pop band from Glasgow-via-Yorkshire. Their quietly experimental landscape songs are played on analogue synths, cello, double bass, drums, guitars, a wine-glass orchestra and, at the creaking centre of things, a Victorian pedal harmonium.

The band came together in early 2015, when Glasgow songwriter Emily Scott recruited old pals and collaborators Pete Harvey (King Creosote, The Leg), Joe Smillie (boss of Glasgow’s The Glad Cafe) and Rob St. John.

Working throughout the year at Pumpkinfield – Pete’s rural Perthshire studio – the band shaped a set of Emily’s skeleton songs. This communal arts-und-crafts-werk resulted in their debut LP ‘Swell to Great’ (named after a stop on the wheezing old harmonium), which will be released on Song, by Toad Records of Edinburgh, Scotland in September 2016.

Modern Studies will play a selection of UK shows and festivals throughout 2016.

modernstudiestheband.com

Divebombing

SOUNDING
20, 21, 22 August 2017
7.30pm (7pm doors) – 10pm
Stockbridge Church, Saxe Coburg Street, Edinburgh (Venue 317)
£12 (general) // £8 (conc)
Tickets: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/sounding-modern-studies-and-lomond-campbell-with-the-pumpkinseeds-chamber-orchestra

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In August 2017, two of the most progressive and highly regarded new Scottish acts will present their unique brand of pastoral and lyrical landscape pop at SOUNDING at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Sets by Modern Studies and Lomond Campbell will be accompanied by intricate arrangements played by renowned ten-piece string section The Pumpkinseeds, with brass and voices, in what promises to be a spectacle of contemporary indie talent.

After the success of debut album Swell to Great (★★★★ MOJO (#19 best LP of 2016), ★★★★ Scotsman, ★★★★ List), Modern Studies will present – for the first time – material from their ambitious follow-up LP (to be released early 2018).

Lomond Campbell’s 2016 album Black River Promise (★★★★ Scotsman, ★★★★ Record Collector, ★★★★ List) will be presented in its entirety.

To mark the occasion Triassic Tusk is releasing a limited edition, double A side, 7” vinyl single of the two acts covering each other’s music. 

This single will be the first in the 2nd volume of Triassic Tusk Tiny Vinyls - a series in which different artists do reciprocal cover versions of each other’s songs.

SOUNDING will take place over three nights – 20-22 August 2017 – during the Edinburgh Fringe, in the beautiful Stockbridge Church, a Georgian building with stunning acoustics.

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LABEL: TRIASSIC TUSK
CAT NO: TT4505
ARTISTS: LOMOND CAMPBELL / MODERN STUDIES FORMAT: 7” VINYL & DIGITAL DOWNLOAD
SPEED: 45 RPM
QUANTITY: 300
RELEASE DATE: 15th AUGUST 2017
AVAILABLE: TRIASSICTUSK.COM

TT4505

Every Florist In Every Town - Modern Studies

Father is a Craftsman - Lomond Campbell

Brico-la-di-da-ge Pop.

Emily Scott, Rob St. John, Pete Harvey and Joe Smillie.

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