Firestations – Many White Horses

'Many White Horses' is a collection of sea-soaked acoustic songs and instrumentals, interwoven with field recordings and lyrics drawn from the immediate surroundings of a sailing expedition, all brought together with warm, textured production. It marks Mike Cranny’s first solo endeavour, playing a variety of instruments and self-producing, albeit one enriched by Laura Copsey’s contributions on flugelhorn, flute and vocals.

The album was conceived and largely written at the beginning of August 2024 on a sailing yacht (Sail Britain’s “Merlin”) in the Inner Hebrides. This was the location for a week-long art residency with seven fellow artist-explorers all keen to capture something of the essence of being at sea and viewing the land from the sea. The voyage, through high winds and waves, took in the mysterious Isle of Rum and the coastline around Arisaig, before Mike and Laura continued the journey for a further week; travelling around the Ardnamurchan peninsula, across the Isles of Mull and Ulva to end up off-grid on the remote Isle of Gometra. 

While the music, with its focus on quietly hypnotic, hushed acoustic instrumentation, may at first appear something of a departure from the last five-piece band Firestations album ‘Thick Terrain’, it remains closely related and recognisable by Mike’s song writing style. It also occupies a similar space to the ‘Sunken Versions’ – quieter and slower songs (featuring on the ‘Automatic Tendencies’ EP series in particular) that focus on the more meditative, stripped back side of the band.

The title track ‘Many White Horses’ was the first song to be written, making use of an aging sea-warped boat guitar that Mike discovered could only be played in an open tuning, with a capo higher up the fret board. Mike says: “The limitations of this guitar proved to be a gateway to other songs – the chord progressions and melodies had to be simple to avoid tuning nightmares, and where I might have ordinarily decided that a song was too straightforward, on the boat I didn’t have a choice but to persevere with simple song ideas. It turns out that limitations can be liberating”. The first single from the album ‘A Weight Starts To Lift’ was written a bit later and shows Mike exploring the possibilities of the open tuning “maybe the trickiest fingerpicking I’ve ever attempted”. 

The communal living conditions on the boat and the camaraderie developed through the everyday routine, and in other artist’s processes, made for a fertile environment. Laura, as expedition leader, provided a series of creative prompts, shaped by archipelago poetics. Moments and provocations that filtered into lyrics and rhythms included a collaboration with a square meter of earth, seeking out an audience on a micro scale, and reading laminated sheets of poetry in the sea. Field recordings and found instruments also give the compositions a strong sense of place and carry the listener across rough seas and onto remote islands.



Biography

Firestations (Lost Map Records) span genres from shoegaze to alt-pop and harmony-driven psychedelia. Their second album, The Year Dot, released in 2018, was followed by sonic collage album Dream Home in 2020 and the Automatic Tendencies EP project in 2020-21. The latter took the form of three EPs over a six-month period, each including alternative “sunken” versions by the band as well as covers and remixes of the band’s tracks by other artists. Thick Terrain, released in 2023, saw Firestations return to album format with ten tracks ranging from hypnotic sci-fi landscapes to addictive dream-pop jangles, exploring ideas around identity, conflict, progress and sanity. Bandmembers are Mike Cranny, Laura Copsey, Martin Thompson (aka Bit Cloudy), Tom Hargreaves and Neil Walsh.

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Here's a new single by me. I also put together and designed the cover art. (Source photo: Life Magazine, Jul. 14, 1961 edition, pg. 12)

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Lyrics:

If you're tough, well, then get going
Ennui's not ever slowing
Mindset keeps ebb and flowin'
Why must I keep feeling this way?
One stop shop, no blood flowing
It's hopeless where we're going
And everything I like about you is flowing into me

When the levee breaks, the blood curdles
And this year of heartaches creates hurdles
I've been searching far and wide, aching for a pesticide
Do you think that will do the trick?
You'll wallow in my own sick

We're going nowhere slow
A road to nowhere home
And everyone's eloped
Except the best in show

For the wish you kiss
Away come birthday's bells beckon a forlorn mist
Impenetrable fist of Armageddon
Are we getting wiser or denser?
The dunce cap stays on tighter

Do you want to know a secret
While everybody knows how to fake it (fake, fake, fake)
You and I, we're different, we're different
Maybe I'm not the smartest
Have to work twice as hardest
Can't put the sloth on a harness
It's ajar far away

We're going nowhere slow
A road to nowhere home
And everyone's eloped

And when you come to, you'll feel it
Was it all untrue?
Your playhouse is built of bone
Renders his words untrue (what he says to you)
Walloped from winter's blows
The sullen heads of people careening from their highs and lows
You're in a drought
No, you can't get out
And though you sulk and pout
They want you to just shout, "Hello, you!"

Serendipitous prose
Mining the gunk outside of my cubbyholes
Scratch and sniff me clean
Whatever do you mean? (What do you mean?)

We're going nowhere slow
A road to nowhere home
And everyone's eloped (everyone's eloped)
We're going nowhere slow
A road to nowhere home
And everyone's eloped (everyone's eloped)
Except the best in...

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