@st-manuel: Aw thank you dude! You are much too kind :-)

mighty,, mighty, mighty wonderful tuneage!!!!  glad to hear it, and thanks for the dl!!!!

utterly beautiful - once in a full moon in return to The Son(s) and the music never ceases to enchant me.

You created a charmed space.
Bye old man x

Open The Gates

I'm pretty sure it was here.
you and a quiz machine and beer
when I fell fell fell for you
Well I could see us in your eyes. I needed a stronger alibi
then I fell fell fell for you
When we give. Then we get. Yeh we all said things that we never meant
But since you ask. Yeh I'd go back.
And fall for you . Again

Housefly

30% battery is fine
when all my birds have flown
i will take the 81 home 
(avoiding Loanhead)

The 81

Volitions & Choir 230107 [sketch]

..A man may write and not be right..

Featuring Isla Sarson on vocals and Stuart Sarson with drums and mastering. 
And artwork by Isla.
Thank you both so much x

My Undoing

Utopia

Pete Josef - Utopia

Sweet Tooth: Ondes & On 230714 [rough idea]

Thanks to a cast of unlikely characters, the fantastic support of Creative Scotland and the ever wonderful Olive Grove Records we have a new 10 track album to release named "The Things I Love Are Not at Home". 

The sleeve features artwork courtesy of acclaimed artist/photographer Alastair Cook and there are collaborations with RM Hubbert (courtesy of Chemikal Underground) and Pete MacDonald from our label mates The State Broadcasters. 

"The Things I Love Are Not at Home" will be available to buy on October 27th in record shops and online via Olive Grove Records & our Bandcamp on heavyweight 12 inch vinyl (and download).

Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Simon Johnston, Blind Spot Audio Recorded in Granton, Leith, Portobello, Gorgie, Shandon, Edinburgh & Aberdeenshire! 

Cover photography by Alastair Cook (www.alastaircook.com) 


Death, With Castanets

All the Reaching Trims

A late-stage rehearsal straight to cassette for reference. Recorded shortly before going into the studio, probably at John Henry rehearsal rooms. This is Mark on guitar, Lee on drums, and myself on piano and organ (the bass was always addressed in the studio once the basic track was down, which is why it doesn't feature here).
It's best to take the 8 minutes out and listen to the end, preferably in headphones, and in a quiet space,

Eden rehearsal cassette

Once there were three.

The Son(s) released their self-titled album with Olive Grove in 2011 to much critical acclaim (thank you Drowned in Sound). 

The subsequent ten track mini LP, ‘Leviathan', recorded overwinter in an empty Edinburgh tenement, is a thing of real beauty and includes The List single of the month ‘If I Hear You Talk Apostrophes Again’ - “untrammelled DIY glam-strop” - (kudos Nicola Meighan).

The Son(s) second album, 'The Things I Love Are Not at Home' followed in 2014, which included collaborations with SAY Award winner RM Hubbert and Pete MacDonald (Randolph's Leap/State Broadcasters) and single ‘Death, With Castanets’ - “a giddy, all-too-brief slice of bookish, psychedelic pop”.

In 2018 & 19 a new line up of The Son(s) played several low-key shows supporting the likes of Kathryn Joseph, Randolphs Leap & RM Hubbert in Glasgow & Edinburgh - road testing a new set of songs. These songs are due to make up a new Son(s) LP, due to trouble your ears sometime before the apocalypse hits in the early 2020’s.
 

The List - "Grammatical funk, cross-dressing blues and skewed-folk despotism never sounded so full of the joys of spring" 

Daily Record - “So well crafted and honey-dipped in harmonies that it's hard to stay tethered to your home"

The Herald - “A psychedelic-folk wonderland, with vocals gorgeously behind the beat and music intrepidly ahead of the pack.”

Drowned in Sound - "...like the menopause in surround sound..”

Death, With Castanets

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