Posts Tagged ‘Lost Map Recordings’

FIRESTATIONS – ” The Circular ” Single Of The Week

Posted: January 19, 2021 in MUSIC
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Firestations continue their Automatic Tendencies project with the release of brand-new track ‘The Circular’, which is available on digital services now as well as included as part of Lost Map’s PostMap Club subscription service in February together with two exclusive bonus tracks (‘No Commonground’ and ‘Phantom Fire’). ‘The Circular’ is taken from the forthcoming EP Melted Medium, which will be released on limited-edition CDR with exclusive hand-made artwork as well as via digital services on March 5th, 2021. It represents the second instalment in a trilogy of three EPs, following the release last November of the Automatic Tendencies EP

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Released January 19th, 2021

MARTHA FFION – ” Want You To Know “

Posted: June 5, 2020 in MUSIC
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Martha Ffion first came to our attention back in 2015 when she put out a single through the Turnstile label. Martha then picked up a much larger audience with her 2018 debut album, “Sunday Best”, released through the ever wonderful Lost Map Records, which was nominated for the Scottish Album of the Year Award. Having returned from a period of radio silence recently with the excellent single, After The Fact, Martha has this week confirmed a new album, Night To Forget will be out later this summer, as well as sharing the latest offering from it, Want You To Know.

Inspired by, “the delusional nostalgia celebrated by the MAGA / ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ sets”, Martha first came up with the chorus for Want You To Know almost a decade ago, before putting it to tape in, “an uncharacteristically hot Glasgow summer”. The result has a delightfully summery feel, the whole thing engulfed in an almost heat haze, dripping with wistful memories and a gently psychedelic quality. As with After The Fact, there’s a subtle re-imagination of Martha’s sound going on; the sounds of 60’s-pop and Americana that were the hallmark of Sunday Best replaced by a newly technicolour sonic pallet, as easy guitars, processed vocals and twitching electronics come to the fore.

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Amid all the nostalgia and electro-pop perfection, there lies a certain sense of unease, the feeling that a bubble is about to burst, clinging onto the past can only last so long, a change is undeniably coming your way: “come, witness the end of pageantry, the cult is coming to your street”. Like all the best pop-songs the gorgeous sheen is masking something here, when Martha Ffion unveils her Nights To Forget it might well be one of the year’s most eye opening musical highlights.

Nights To Forget is out August 14th via Lost Map.

ED DOWIE – ‘Red Or Grey’

Posted: February 23, 2018 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Ed Dowie learned the piano and the organ as a child from his father, before becoming a chorister and an organist in Dorset. His music career began in earnest in 1998 when his Bournemouth-based psychedelic-dub-pop band Brothers in Sound – stablemates of the legendary Beta Band on cult Parlophone subsidiary Regal Recordings  released three EPs and the album Family Is For Sharing, all of which were met with considerable critical acclaim. After Brothers in Sound’s untimely demise, Ed spent several years studying experimental music in Leicester, Montreal and York, before moving to London in 2008 and joining puppetry/animation/film company The Paper Cinema as a composer for various theatre, short films and art projects. He has played at venues including the Tate Britain, the Barbican and the National Portrait Gallery, as well as further afield at festivals in France, Denmark, Portugal, Spain and Azerbaijan.

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Ed’s debut album The Uncle Sold takes its title from the 1995 Kazuo Ishiguro novel The Unconsoled, a unique and inspirational book that takes the reader on a continually evolving, dream-like journey around a non-specified city. Recorded in London at studio spaces in Dalston and Haringey, it’s a sometimes wistful, sometimes sad, sometimes uplifting and at all times surprising listen that paints a picture of a range of characters struggling for certainty in a metropolis beset by continually changing forces, be they political, personal or financial.

Openers ‘Verbarhemiopia’ and ‘Red or Grey’ are gently prismatic wonders each, variously encompassing dreamy multi-layered voices, firework field recordings, static hiss, twirling fairground ride melodies and a playful, vaguely Gallic sounding accordion solo. A slowly crashing wave of heavy-hearted electronica with ethereal yet understated vocals summoning the spirit of Robert Wyatt and Arthur Russell, ‘Yungpawel’ is a song about “a couple of very good friends of mine who sort of represent an ideal of how it’s possible to be,” says Ed, “inspiring, intelligent, active, self-aware, conscious, caring”. Set to a field recording of pouring rain, ‘Bastard Harbour’ is a hauntingly melancholic piano meditation on ageing and death. Climactic closer ‘Richard’, a drowsy collage of needling guitars and sparkling synths with hints of Spiritualized and Super Furry Animals, brings a note of acceptance to the album’s final phase as the song’s titular drifter finally comes home.

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LAZY DAY – ” Hiccup “

Posted: August 13, 2017 in MUSIC
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Lost Map Records are delighted to welcome the return of London lo-fi dreamy-grunge quartet Lazy Day with their shimmering and soaring new track ‘Hiccup’.

‘Hiccup’ is second thrilling taster of their forthcoming EP Ribbons, which is due for release on 10” vinyl format on September 15, 2017. The EP also features previous single, ‘With My Mind’.

‘Hiccup’ follows Lazy Day’s now long-since sold-out Record Store Day 2015 split 7” single with Tuff Love,‘Portait’ / ‘Groucho’, and the ‘Disappear’ 7” single, which was accompanied by a stunning and trippy video then hailed by DIY Mag as “yet more evidence of Tilly’s growing ambitions, as she amps up with a full band, and hits down on the accelerator”.

Lazy Day began life in 2014 as the bedroom solo project of Tilly Scantlebury. Self-recording her tracks on Garageband and making them available to hear via SoundCloud, she quickly gained extensive attention and praise from many respected music websites and blogs. Since expanding to a four-piece band currently featuring drummer Beni Evans, guitarist Liam Hoflay and newest member bassist Jake Head, they’ve gone on to twice be long listed for Glastonbury’s Emerging Talent Competition, appearing at festivals including LeeFest: The Neverland, SWN Festival and the Beacons Festival .

“I wrote ‘Hiccup’ two summers ago when I found myself in a romantic situation that I wasn’t ready for,” says Tilly. “The song is about not knowing what someone else is thinking and ending up in your own head. I wanted to play with the idea of a ‘hiccup’ – a weird involuntary bodily reflex that causes disruption, even if only for a second. A hiccup is like an unpredictable bump in the road, and it was a way for me to express the lack of control I felt I had at the time. I had a lot of fun mirroring this in the music, especially with the band in the studio – chopping and changing the pace and feel of the song so you’re never quite sure what’s next.”

‘Hiccup’ was recorded by Bottle Rocket Recording at The Crows’ Nest Studios, mixed by Adrian Hall (Anna Calvi/Goldfrapp) at Clever Pup Studios and mastered by Andy ‘Hippy’ Baldwin at Metropolis.

TUFF LOVE – ” Duke “

Posted: December 22, 2015 in MUSIC
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10″ yellow vinyl + download the new EP  ‘Duke’, the new single from Glasgow’s Tuff Love. It’s the first track to be taken from the band’s forthcoming release, DREGS E.P. – which will be out November 6th 2015, on 10″ vinyl + download, via Lost Map Records.

Completing their triumphant trio of introductory EPs, one of Scotland’s most exciting new bands, Tuff Love, release their new EP ‘Dregs’. The follow-up to the critically-acclaimed, sold-out and for the foreseeable future digitally deleted EPs ‘Junk’ (“the makings of a very special band” -DIY Mag) and ‘Dross’ (“they’re a hell of a prospect” – The Skinny) as well as the Record Store Day 7″ single ‘Groucho’ (“a windstorm of fuzzed-out, sun-bleached exuberance” – Line of Best Fit), ‘Dregs’ is the latest, most confident-sounding and most compelling product of their increasingly sophisticated homespun craft – lo-fi in ethic but not in sound. From the distorted jangle of ‘Duke’, through the snapping ‘Crocodile’ with its wonderfully wonky outro organ solo and on to the woozily waltzing ‘Carbon’, Dregs is solid gold irresistible listening from first to last. For fans of The Breeders, Lush and Veruca Salt.

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TUFF LOVE – ” ‘That’s Right “

Posted: December 19, 2015 in MUSIC
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Glaswegian outfit Tuff Love raised a few eyebrows when they were announced as the main support act on Creation Records stalwarts Ride’s comeback tour in May. However, anyone that witnessed their dynamic opening slots were left in little doubt at their ability to shine on the biggest of stages. Which is no mean feat for a band who only put out their first record just over a year ago. Essentially the baby of core members Julie Eisenstein and Suse Bear, their sun drenched harmonies and simplistic melodies tied together by a lo-fi hail of fuzz and distortion remind us of Teenage Fanclub or The Shop Assistants at their most effervescent.

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First track from the forthcoming Dregs EP  released 6th November 2015