Love your sound etheral folk and yes, dreamy americana is a perfect description!

Thoughtful lyrics and beautiful sound; super work!

The debut single from Western Lows, taken from their forthcoming album Glacial, out on Highline Records in the UK and Europe on September 9th, 2013.

Western Lows - Grapevine

Liu Bei
Infatuation / Atlas World
7th July 2014
Ltd 7” vinyl and digital release

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfQf6VGD_Ig&feature=youtu.be


“We heard something on the radio about Liu Bei, a Chinese warlord who was known as an amazing strategist and a really caring, benevolent leader. He was also eight feet tall and had ears so big he could see them. Seemed like something to aspire to.”

Liu Bei (“Lou Bay”) explains frontman Richard, was born out of a desire to move away from years of solo acoustic songwriting and embark on something entirely new. In August 2013, on the brink of retiring from live music and concentrating fully on an already successful career writing music for TV shows and ads, Richard embarked on a collaborative project with a few friends which eventually led to the full formation of a band.  After falling in love all over again with the likes of Slowdive, Ride and Mazzy Star, he felt an urge to create something epic and timeless. 

The first song to come was Infatuation – a shimmering, reverb soaked lament charting “how dedication and unconditional love can so quickly turn into something dark and sharp toothed, an aggressive obsession.” You can hear the life cycle of the band within - it retains the reflective, introverted character of its early acoustic form, but builds those raw emotions into something more panoramic, a wash of delayed guitar and building drums reminiscent of the Cocteau Twins. 

The accompanying video - a compact cinematic epic - was created by London-based filmmaker Jake Dypka, who upon hearing an early demo of the song knew he had to be involved: “Jake heard Infatuation and said it transported him to his adolescence – to that time and place where every teenage crush eats you alive. He wanted to shoot something that conveyed that – in the end we actually went to the town where he grew up, we even filmed in his childhood home.”

Infatuation was recorded and mixed by James Kenosha (Pulled Apart By Horses, Rhodes, Dancing Years) at The Lodge studio in East Yorkshire during the first days of 2014.

Liu Bei play Servant Jazz Quarters in London on July 10th 2014. 
Tickets are available here: http://billetto.co.uk/liu-bei

Buy the 7” from the paradYse store: http://paradyserecords.bigcartel.com/ 
Vinyl and Tickets Bundle: https://www.musicglue.com/rockfeedback-1/
iTunes: http://georiot.co/1cXu
Website - http://www.liubeiwins.com	
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/liubeiwins
Twitter - https://twitter.com/liubeiwins	
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Liu Bei - Infatuation

"...breathtaking, sort of hushed folk music that’s both beautiful and mesmerizing while still capable of being called pop music..." - Austin Town Hall 

"Dreamy Americana..." - Damn Arbor

"Check this out if you like acts like Bon Iver..." - Listen to the Mitten

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Forget Their Names

Picture by Tero Ahonen.
Video here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBqYnzPpdtg

Empty

Devil In You

Still

The Rope (Radio Mix)

Drifting far away
Where are we now?
Hiding in this crazy space
Nothing left to say
We ease our minds
Floating high above this place

Here we'd get through
There are no decisions to be made
I'd still have you
Our love and trust would never fade

No I won't come down
The world is beautiful up here
No I won't come down
There's too much pain beneath us dear
I know we ought to finally let it go
But on the ground I'm nothing without you

By the morning
You will be gone
And so will all the vows we made
Time is calling
You will move on
And I'll be heading back again

Down there I'm through
Those games are too hard for me to play
I would miss you
Knowing that I wasted us away

No I won't come down
The world is beautiful up here
No I won't come down
There's too much pain beneath us dear
I know we ought to finally let it go
But on the ground I'm nothing without you
I know we ought to finally let it go
But on the ground I'm nothing without you

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Far Away

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Spotify - http://tinyurl.com/goodlove-spotify
Artwork by Jolon Cullinan

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Good Love

Walk With Me

Off 'I Climbed a Tree' EP order here:

EP http://davegerardandthewatchmen.bandcamp.com/album/i-climbed-a-tree

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Hesitate

"Dreamy Americana..." - Damn Arbor

"...breathtaking folk music that’s both beautiful and mesmerizing..." - Austin Town Hall

"Check this out if you like acts like Bon Iver..." - Listen to the Mitten

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Sleepy Holler is the musical project of songwriters M. Evans and JT Wilcox. The duo live in Austin, TX and Washington, DC. 

Contact:
sleepyhollermusic@gmail.com

Forget Their Names

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