From the album "Leith Love Songs" which was a wedding gift for my wife (2023)

Magic Thinking

Here again exploring influences.  Heavier, more Muse/Numan than Motorhead.  And again my obsession about light. 

Also there's a hint of Yeats ("the centre cannot hold") in there: "Pull me to the centre and hold". that's why in the end it's another love song.  Love is stronger than gravity.

From the album "Leith Love Songs" which was a wedding gift for my wife (2023).

Bend The Light

What happens when you walk on beautiful beaches of the east coast of Scotland with the one you love, listening to Lana Del Rey. This is a tribute to all of that.  From the album "Leith Love Songs", which I wrote for my wife as a wedding gift (2023).

Let The Light In

Sometimes you don't realise you're dead, at least dead inside.  Talking to yourself becomes a seance of sorts.  In a sense a bit of a tribute to Pink Floyd

Auto-Seance

A track I wrote about ten years ago in response to the Independence referendum.  Not about who won or lost but about taking part.  It's a hymn to democracy.

Dark Matter

Surface Tension

This is a tribute to my favourite bass player - Derek Forbes - and his playing on my favourite album - New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84).

My Immaculate Friend

Chart The Embers

We Are Golden

been flirting with the idea that every song on my third album should have a weird time signature.  This song is 13/8 and 4/4.

Imposter Syndrome

Lucky Me

sort of 2006 earnest indie ballad vibe here.  Clearly my odyssey to stop looking back and help find the future of music continues . . .

Shimmer

This track featured on my first album but received the fewest listens by far.  No idea why.  I think it deserved more so have remixed it.  A slightly odd mashup of Kraftwerk and Foreigner.

I Want To Know What Love Is (REMIX)

Cold Cold Sweat

went on a journey with this one.  Punk chords, then shoegaze, then something else - reverb odyssey.  But a positive message whatever.

There Is Only Life

Here We Go Again

wrote this for my beautiful daughter for her 18th birthday.  Her whole life is dreampop.

Dream My Own Life

red lines everyone, with others, with yourself.  You got to bring the walls down.  Unselfing, that's from Iris Murdoch.  Lesson one, get over yourself.

Red Wall Falling

In very dark times it's important to ask, is starlight ever enough?

Is Starlight Ever Enough?

I Didn't See It Coming

WangChung Vs Gary Numan.  License applied for.

Dance Hall Days

Shelley wrote “Rise like Lions after slumber, in unvanquishable number - shake your chains to earth like dew, Which in sleep had fallen on you, ye are many - they are few.”  I think there are too many lions and not enough lambs in the world.  Don't mistake your desire for fire.

Rise As A Lamb

A Glittering Prize

setting the mood for the album that follows.  There's a different take on almost everything that follows in terms of what and how they might have sounded.  The most obvious is it all being electronic.

OVERTURE - A Flash Of Light

Worry Doll

Richard Foggo is a songwriter, musician and producer living and working in Leith, Scotland.  Deeply influenced by early 80s synthy new wave and post-punk, Richard is now committed to bringing #LeithRock to the masses #postpunk #postrock

Included here are the three full albums -  Leith Love Songs, Leith Takes, and Leith Walls - which make up Richard's Leith trilogy.  Richard wrote and recorded the first as a gift for his wife when they were married in Summer 2023.  "Beneath all the alienation and despair, they're love songs really".   Leith Takes helped Richard do what he promised himself when he turned 50 - "stop worrying and just get all my music out my head".  And now the third album- a Leith hat trick - Leith Walls has been released.  It includes "Dream Your Own Life", a track Richard wrote for his daughter on her 18th birthday.

All played, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Richard in his wee basement studio in Leith, Edinburgh.  Richard also plays bass in the band The Peacemen. New tracks coming soon!

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