A collaboration. The riff to Checkpoint Charlie; allowed to germinate in Berlin into a parallel evolution.

Checkpoint Charlie - Armstrong/Litter

Guitar driven menace laded instrumental mayhem
The same riff was used in the collaboration experiment below; with parallel evolution.

Checkpoint Charlier - The Speed Of Sound

A surreal foggy dream sequence of crunchy psychedelia.
One sideDouble-A-side single (c/w Girl On The Roof)limited edition physical 7" 45rpm single and also digital download.

Maid Of The Grey - The Speed Of Sound

Day In Day Out will be a bonus track on the new The Speed Of Sound album; there is a big difference between being alive and merely existing, routines and the grind of time pressures can kill the spark, fight back. Actively live life don't just pass through it.

Day In Day Out (acoustic pre-master stereo mix)

Specially written for our gig at Elizabeth Gaskell's house and performed there in the drawing room, which Charlotte Bronte would have recognised and marking 200 years since her birth. The song deals with the anxiety attacks she frequently suffered and draws parallels between herself and Jane Eyre. Perhaps unsurprisingly it turned out quite gothic and glowering. Playing live in a room with a physical connection to her and that has hosted contemporary music over 160 years was like being in a 'time bubble'. Press play.

Charlotte - THE SPEED OF SOUND (drum-less demo)

Always Seems To Fall
The 24 hour city and rain, always rain. The bustle of perpetual traffic around the Rio de Janeiro ring road on a trip in 2015 sparked this not very obviously Brazilian influenced song, my first day in South America had a tropical downpour of impressive proportions. Circular themes of rushing and life’s cycle and the pace of the 21st century came together with the rain, some unresolved chords and Manchester. Recorded at Seed Studios and Bryn Elwy

Always Seems To Fall - The Speed of Sound

At first this seems to be a song about a departed lover, but Karin B was a ship loaded with toxic waste refused access to ports and unable to dock, the story had echoes of the Flying Dutchman legend.  Toxic waste was frequently dumped on a secluded beach in an 'off radar' country or the ship would simply disappear with its cargo, an unmarked grave.

Karin B

"New Wave, Post-Punk blood, powered by a heartbeat of 1960's influences" - Louder Than War
Colliding the 1960's and the Now since 1989. 
Co-releasing on Big Stir Records in California and Be Records in Manchester UK.
Two Double-A-Side singles in 2020 and plenty more on the way for 2021.
A hybrid vinyl/CD format album, three 7" vinyl singles, and three CD albums are already available via the website shop and at Bandcamp, CDbaby, Amazon, iTunes etc wherever you would normally look.

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