Cold Seeds by King Creosote/Meursault/Animal Magic Tricks
Out: Monday 20th September 2010
Cold Seeds don’t actually exist as a band. This album is actually a one-off collaboration between Kenny Anderson (better known as King Creosote), Neil Pennycook and Pete Harvey from Meursault and Frances Donnelly from Animal Magic Tricks.
It was recorded in our living room (hence the cat making an appearance on the first song) over two weekends back at the end of 2009 and has been out on 12″ vinyl for a little while now.
Neil, Frances and Kenny took turns improvising with each others songs, adding layers of noise, dictaphones, and anything else they could think of, and eventually integrating Pete’s gorgeous cello parts into the songs to create an album with surprising coherence and unity, given its slightly haphazard genesis.
Preview mp3s:
Leave Me to Lie Alone in the Ground
The Perfume of Mexican Birds
Meursault on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/meursaulta701
Animal Magic Tricks on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/animalmagictricks
King Creosote’s offical site: http://www.kingcreosote.com/
Buy here:
12″ vinyl: http://songbytoadrecords.com/meursault/cold-seeds/
CD: http://songbytoadrecords.com/meursault/cold-seeds-2/
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Duress Code
Out: Monday September 27th 2010
This is Inspector Tapehead’s 2008 debut album, or at least so they told me. Some two years later it’s finally finished and can at long last see the light of day.
Duress Code is perhaps about as upbeat and jolly an album as we’ve ever released on Song, by Toad Records, but the music is still messy as hell when you actually listen to it, so it may be a little different, but it definitely feels like a coherent part of the label’s catalogue.
In their words: “Older folk and blues melodies, fused with modern party rhythms and mucky synth licks.”
Preview mp3s:
Yarvil
Pherenzik Tear
Video for Pherenzik Tear:
Made by the band, and shot entirely on VHS for some inexplicable reason
Inspector Tapehead on MySpace:
http://www.myspace.com/inspectortapehead
Buy here:
http://songbytoadrecords.com/inspector-tapehead/duress-code/
