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Record Label: Fire Records Style: Indie Rock

Record Label: Fire Records Style: Indie Rock

Artist: VIRGINIA / XAM DUO WING Label: Fire Records

Artist: VIRGINIA / XAM DUO WING Label: Fire Records

There is a calmness in its melancholy, a beauty in its blues. These are songs that see the mystical beyond the material, abstracted folk ballads awash in memory" ****MOJO. Forming out of a recording project via Scotland and Lancashire, the band first came together in 2015; 'I played in his band and he played in mine' composer and singer Emily Scott says of Rob St John. A natural move saw her similarly recruit Pete Harvey (King Creosote, The Leg) and Joe Smillie (Call To Mind). Inspired by an antique Victorian harmonium that eventually found its way from Northern Ireland to Scotland, Modern Studies' debut album 'Swell To Great', aptly named after an organ stop, was unusually written with the malfunctioning instrument at the centre of their songwriting. A stimulating approach that melds the old and new through their instruments, delicate harmonies and rich compositions that are steeped in traditional and contemporary folk music. The restrictive process even had their wheezy founding member, the harmonium, controlling the pitch as the intrepid band members tuned their tools accordingly. T+he quartet's songs are embedded in the sea and the landscape of the shoreline. Emily Scott's tender lead vocals soar over the sweeping cello, bellowing harmonium and gentle percussive crashes on 'Black Street', 'Bottle Green' and 'Sleep', while hidden in its depths Rob St John, experiments with tape loops that are buried within the layers of their orchestral arrangements. St John, known for his field recordings and art-science projects, cites as his guiding inspiration Brian Eno's experimentalism and pop sensibilities. Unfurling bucolic stories come with Scott's lyrics for each song. Includes an exceptional ode to Shirley Collins' rendition of traditional song 'Bold Fisherman' that featured on 'Shirley Inspired' compilation Record Label: Fire Records Style: Indie

LP coloured vinyl. Fire Records are delighted to be releasing the new album from A.C. Newman in Europe. "Shut Down The Streets" is the most powerful and personal solo work to date from THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS' founder. While Carl Newman long ago staked a claim for being one of North America's finest pop craftsmen, "Shut Down The Streets" represents a change in tone and a bigger change in subject matter. A year of joy and sorrow in the Newman household has inspired an album of understated elegance and strength. Fantastic lyrical chops and musical invention aren't new territory for Carl, but writing so directly about the most important events in his adult life - the death of his mother and the birth of his first child - certainly are. Recorded in Woodstock, NY and featuring longtime colleague Neko Case, "Shut Down The Streets" bears the influence of classic 0s folk and pop songwriters ranging from Gerry Rafferty to "Daylight Katy"-period Gordon Lightfoot. Summoning lush sonics with sweeping string & synth backgrounds that are miles away from his main band, THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS' signature sound, "Shut Down The Streets" is brutally honest, open and affecting in a way Newman has rarely been in the past. Carl Newman founded THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS in Vancouver, Canada, bringing together an octet of ridiculously talented musicians including Dan Bejar (DESTROYER), Neko Case, Kathryn Calder, John Collins, Kurt Dahle, Blaine Thurier and Todd Fancey. Having formed in 1997, they almost immediately recorded the classic song "Letter >From An Occupant" and went on to release five wondrous albums. They received wild critical and public acclaim and they continue to enjoy bigger and bigger audiences around the world. Carl made his solo debut as A.C. NEWMAN in 2004 with "The Slow Wonder", which he followed up with "Get Guilty" in 2009. The new album is bookmarked by starkly contrasting songs, starting with the blissful "I'm Not Talking" and ending with the title track, gorgeous and devastating in equal measure, which concerns the recent death of Newman's mother, revealing one of the saddest, most direct and heartbreaking song he's ever written. But coping with death is only part of the message here; most of the rest of the songs celebrate new life, in the form of the birth of his son, Stellan, and the bucolic life Newman is carving out for his family in Woodstock, New York - what he calls "my private new world." The shuffling gait and plinking keyboards of "You Could Get Lost Out Here" make clear that he is lost out there, and a little nervous for it, but also not a little exhilarated. The true heart of hut Down the Streets' might be "Strings" and "Hostages," both exquisite and infectious, both expressly about Stellan, the latter described by Newman as "a straight-up joyous song," the former based on this premise: "We wanted to have a baby so much that I made a promise to the world that I would never complain again if this wish was granted to us. Now that we've been given this, I constantly have to remind myself not to be full of shit and live by the promise that I made." With hut Down the Streets', Carl Newman demonstrates his considerable songwriting skills, with gorgeously constructed pop songs imbued with wit and intelligence. With exquisite, sugary melodies and expertly melded boy-girl harmonies provided courtesy of Neko Case, the album showcases Newman as one of the most important and gifted songwriters of the new millennium. Vinyl, LP, Album

LP coloured vinyl. Fire Records are delighted to be releasing the new album from A.C. Newman in Europe. "Shut Down The Streets" is the most powerful and personal solo work to date from THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS' founder. While Carl Newman long ago staked a claim for being one of North America's finest pop craftsmen, "Shut Down The Streets" represents a change in tone and a bigger change in subject matter. A year of joy and sorrow in the Newman household has inspired an album of understated elegance and strength. Fantastic lyrical chops and musical invention aren't new territory for Carl, but writing so directly about the most important events in his adult life - the death of his mother and the birth of his first child - certainly are. Recorded in Woodstock, NY and featuring longtime colleague Neko Case, "Shut Down The Streets" bears the influence of classic 0s folk and pop songwriters ranging from Gerry Rafferty to "Daylight Katy"-period Gordon Lightfoot. Summoning lush sonics with sweeping string & synth backgrounds that are miles away from his main band, THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS' signature sound, "Shut Down The Streets" is brutally honest, open and affecting in a way Newman has rarely been in the past. Carl Newman founded THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS in Vancouver, Canada, bringing together an octet of ridiculously talented musicians including Dan Bejar (DESTROYER), Neko Case, Kathryn Calder, John Collins, Kurt Dahle, Blaine Thurier and Todd Fancey. Having formed in 1997, they almost immediately recorded the classic song "Letter >From An Occupant" and went on to release five wondrous albums. They received wild critical and public acclaim and they continue to enjoy bigger and bigger audiences around the world. Carl made his solo debut as A.C. NEWMAN in 2004 with "The Slow Wonder", which he followed up with "Get Guilty" in 2009. The new album is bookmarked by starkly contrasting songs, starting with the blissful "I'm Not Talking" and ending with the title track, gorgeous and devastating in equal measure, which concerns the recent death of Newman's mother, revealing one of the saddest, most direct and heartbreaking song he's ever written. But coping with death is only part of the message here; most of the rest of the songs celebrate new life, in the form of the birth of his son, Stellan, and the bucolic life Newman is carving out for his family in Woodstock, New York - what he calls "my private new world." The shuffling gait and plinking keyboards of "You Could Get Lost Out Here" make clear that he is lost out there, and a little nervous for it, but also not a little exhilarated. The true heart of hut Down the Streets' might be "Strings" and "Hostages," both exquisite and infectious, both expressly about Stellan, the latter described by Newman as "a straight-up joyous song," the former based on this premise: "We wanted to have a baby so much that I made a promise to the world that I would never complain again if this wish was granted to us. Now that we've been given this, I constantly have to remind myself not to be full of shit and live by the promise that I made." With hut Down the Streets', Carl Newman demonstrates his considerable songwriting skills, with gorgeously constructed pop songs imbued with wit and intelligence. With exquisite, sugary melodies and expertly melded boy-girl harmonies provided courtesy of Neko Case, the album showcases Newman as one of the most important and gifted songwriters of the new millennium. Style: Independent