Waterfall

Rule #21 - Momento Mori

Ferryman By Shayfer James and Willy Wood

Violet

Look Away

Dr. Horrible - Slipping

The Last Werewolf

Me and Mr Wolf

﻿﻿Shut Eye is the first single to be taken from Stealing Sheep's forthcoming debut album on Heavenly Recordings.

The single comes backed with an exclusive track entitled 'We Like The Dark'  and is available as a very limited 7" and digital download.

Download:
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/shut-eye-single/id528666684

7":
http://www.roughtrade.com/site/shop_detail.lasso?search_type=sku&sku=352130

We are also thrilled to announce the release of 'Into The Diamond Sun', the long-awaited debut from Stealing Sheep, Available from 3rd September 2012 on cd, download and limited glitter vinyl.  The album when purchased from an independent retailer also comes with a bonus 'The Melting Mountain Mix' cd featuring tracks the band were listening to when recording.  

You can pre-order the album from the following sites:

http://www.roughtrade.com/site/shop_detail.lasso?search_type=sku&sku=352979
(the first 200 copies are signed)

http://www.play.com/Music/CD/4-/33367378/0/Into-The-Diamond-Sun/ListingDetails.html
(these come with an exclusive badge back)

Animation by Rivkah Gevinson
http://vimeo.com/rivkah

https://www.facebook.com/stealingsheepuk

http://www.heavenlyrecordings.com

Into The Diamond Sun

Shut Eye

Stealing Sheep - Shut Eye

Released on October 28th, 2008. Written by Thomas & Paul Dutton. Produced & Mixed by Casey Bates.

Holy The Sea (ft. John Gourley & Kris Anaya)

Go check out The Crane Wives! They made this music!

Edit: Three years later and people are still talking about this post, kinda insane frfr. Anyway, PLEASE check out The Crane Wives on Youtube to see more of their content!

Foxlore

Curses by The Crane Wives

Beneath the Brine was recorded by The Family Crest, mixed by Jay Pellicci at Tiny Telephone in San Francisco, and mastered by Jason Ward at Chicago Mastering Services.  These tracks are unreleased. Please refrain from sharing outside your team. 

Beneath the Brine

A Sadness Runs Through Him - The Hoosiers

Counterfeit Arcade

Villainous Thing

From the onset, Liam McCormick, the mastermind behind The Family Crest, knew that Beneath the Brine was an audacious project. But so is The Family Crest itself.

The brainchild of McCormick, The Family Crest was started as a recording project in 2009 with co-founder John Seeterlin (bass). “We were in another band and had become disillusioned,” explains McCormick. “John and I were actually planning on leaving music at that point because we wanted something that in ten years we could be proud of.”

Instead of leaving music, they set out to reinvent how it could be created, starting The Family Crest. “We always liked making music with people — getting a bunch of people together and singing. So we put ads everywhere,” says McCormick. “We posted on Craigslist and emailed old friends from school.” The outcome was greater than the original duo imagined, with 80 people credited on the first recording the band produced. From that a band emerged, at the urging of the guest musicians, who wanted to hear the songs performed live. “We’ve worked with a lot of conservatory students as well as people who just sing in the shower,” McCormick adds. “It became a lot about giving these people a chance to express themselves without being locked into a commitment.”

The result is a seven-piece core band boasting over 400 “Extended Family” members who have contributed to the music.  The Family Crest released its album Beneath the Brine in February 2014 and, just with its previous recordings, the San Francisco band set out to capture a plethora of instruments — including bassoon, vibraphone and French horn — in unique places, such as living rooms, churches and cafes across the West Coast.

Beneath the Brine shows that McCormick’s ambition was well placed. The expansive breadth of arrangements – from dark, classical romanticism (“Beneath the Brine”) to horn-laden sounds akin to the Roaring 20s (“Howl”) — are complemented by the incredible range of McCormick’s voice. Beneath the Brine also showcases The Family Crest’s ability to infuse pop into complex arrangements, with songs like “Love Don’t Go” and LIVE105 favorite “The World.” The album is a sweeping soundscape befitting the oceanic theme of the title and what SPIN notes as “ambition wide enough to swallow you whole.”

Named #13 on Paste‘s “Best New Bands of 2014″ list and proclaimed NPR Music’s “Favorite New Artist of 2014,” The Family Crest is looking ahead to its next set of audacious projects. Paste founder Josh Jackson notes that “Even with just seven people on stage, The Family Crest’s sweeping orchestral pop can hardly be contained…. It feels like bigger venues are just around the bend.”

Beneath the Brine

The Family Crest

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