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New album "I Want to Open" comes out in Summer 2023

Call your mother up and ask her how to make that dish from your childhood
And I will scrounge the neighborhood
For wild herbs that taste as good as your memory
If you'll let me

And I've been the one to wash your feet in the bathtub of the apartment
I will keep the water warm
And we will sleep the whole night through this sickness
And be in another place

It'll take more, take more, take more, take more
It'll take more than this to be good

Getting tired of waking up in the same bed we went to sleep in
The world is foaming at the mouth
And dreaming's the only way to leave the bedroom
And be in another place

It'll take more, take more, take more, take more
Will it take more than this to be good?
credits

Take More

Winlaton (win-lay-ton) is the third single released by the Ilfords since their 2022 rebirth.

Our David on Winlaton: 'Winlaton was written during deep lockdown. Nothing was open and late night running was the only space I had to myself. I suppose it reflects on what methods you can try to use when you feel lost. On one late night trek however, I realised I wasn’t just lost mentally at that time but geographically as I’d managed to run all the way to Winlaton.'

Produced, Engineered and Mixed by Ady Hall and Lee McCarthy of Sugar House Productions
Recorded at Catalyst Studios, St Helens
Mastered by Nick Watson of Fluid Mastering

Winlaton

This track was written on the cusp of autumn, reflecting on how the changing in seasons can have such a visceral internal effect on us. I find that every year, the shift between seasons has a huge impact on my mood and outlook, and was in awe of how powerful nature is to move us so much. 'Evergreen' is an acknowledgement of how we have to embrace this, and that - no matter how hard we try - humans are no match for the forces of nature.

Evergreen

'Fishyman, Pt.1 (Flip Flop)’ and 'Fishyman, Pt.2 (Fishy Man)’ 

Written and performed by Gag Salon.
Recorded and produced by Chris McCrory.
Mastered by Sam Smith.
Artwork by Bette Blanchard.

Joseph Mumford - vocals, electric guitar, nylon string guitar, synth
Tom Dimmock - electric guitar, synth, mellotron, piano, backing vocals
Seb Bowden - bass guitar, percussion, backing vocals,
Ayden Spiller - drums, pig squeals

Also featuring 
Soren Bryce - violin, screams

Fishyman, Pt.1 (Flip Flop)

Little Boats

Anything Bad for Me

Don't Ever Hide Your Face

You're an Animal

I'm a Dinosaur

Debut Album from Ellie Walker & The Folly

Release date TBC

Go Home

Outside Looking In

Sinners Sing

Let me seduce you

Right Hand Man

Brassic

Wake Up

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Anything Bad for Me

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