Out Feb 2016 on Drifltess

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Matt Kivel - Janus

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

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Faith Eliott - Pyrite Ammonite

Written June - Sept 2016.
Sung in Bristol, 15 Sept 2016. 
Text: Supported by the word by John Newton, 1778.

Lightwater

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

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