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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.

Ten White Horses

Pieces is the 1st single from Rhythm On The City Wall, the new album by Dan Wilde, set for release on the 29th July  2016 on Wild Sound Recordings

Pieces

DOWNLOAD THIS SONG FROM HERE 
Or you can get the whole EP on bandcamp for free
https://richardbower.bandcamp.com/album/the-box-room-sessions-ep1

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Tourniquet

Best Thing - Track from Debut EP 'You Should Know' - Release Date - 15/04/16
Listen to the full EP over on spotify - https://open.spotify.com/album/5z5qPw1DzUKVVHRKJ9jGVZ


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Grand Hotel Tremezzo

After a month learning piano, here's my first effort of a cover of Ryan Adam's beautiful track  'La Cienega Smiles', recorded in GarageBand.

Big thanks to my talented pals:

Dave Redfearn for the guitar track
Martyn Hand for track mastering

Hard To Hear

RichardBower

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