Go for it big fella, click the goddamn link! Each copy comes with a sticker and a badge.Īll profits (£5+ depending on how much you pay for it) goes to Sense Scotland to help them continue their most excellent work supporting young people with deafblindness. Out now and available to buy from Bandcamp. A project that let me go off on a wee adventure in my head, into my surroundings, and through the land of limitless TV and neighbour-spotting that was/is my flat. Hand printed pages, thermal photo prints and short poems, one of each for each day of that week in November. In a bid to escape the anaemic monotony of recycled pandemic-life I thought I’d have a crack at getting back into writing poetry, if you could ever call it that. I’d just acquired a new wee thermal printer and was by this point printing everything I could, reasonable or unreasonable – phone photos, camera ones, shopping lists, meal lists, small notes to leave around the flat, printed answers to verbal questions on the couch. Cam aaaannnn.īack in November, I started a 7 day project, taking a photo and writing a short poem every day. The whole thing sounds hissy and warbly and pop/clicky as fuck. I mixed it on my Tascam 424mkIII before sending the files over to Mark Lough (Madame Engadine’s Party) to master using some nice analogue gear. And was just like when receiving one of the finished songs in the post, or coming up with parts in the first place. It was some good news that we’re all overdue. No necessary involvement of Jesus or whoever. I liked how the statement came with no qualifiers. The EP title comes from graffiti I spotted on an electricity box on Glasgow Green. The EP features collaborations with Lovers Turn To Monsters, Madame Engadine’s Party, thoughtfox ( Constant Follower guitarist Kurd) and Youth Group. All songs came from ideas I considered ‘throwaway’ or ‘just ok’, and they all ended up brilliant pieces of music. It was an opportunity to remind myself for the millionth time that others’ input makes your musical ideas so much better. I’ve been meaning to steal that idea for a while, and although Andrew is currently without a 4-track and had to sit this one out, I was able to assemble a winning cast of interesting types, and send them all a half-song in this way to finish. Produced by Blake Richardson.Friend and esteemed songwriter Andrew Howie once told me about this project he did with a friend, where he recorded the first 2 tracks or ‘parts’ of a song on a 4-track recorder (like the guitar chords and the vocal, or the keys and the drums etc) and then popped the tape in the post to a friend to record the remaining 2 tracks/’parts’ on his 4-track recorder and complete the songs. “Whatever” was written by Blake Richardson, Reece Bibby, George Smith, Ross Golan, and Jackson Morgan. This was the song and moment for us to change that around and not quit on what we had worked so hard for.” The song is mostly about the self-realisation that we can do better in all aspects of our life. It was a kind-of therapy session for the three of us to write down how we had all been feeling. “Call Me A Quitter came about when we were sat in the back of a cab in London, talking about how we were struggling with relationships during the pandemic. We are nervous for everyone to hear it,” New Hope Club said of the song. “We feel, as a band, that this is the most personal song we have ever released. “Call Me a Quitter” was written by Blake Richardson, Reece Bibby, George Smith, and Phil Simmonds, who also produced the track. Two songs are the follow-up to “Getting Better” and “Girl Who Does Both”, which were released back in June.
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