James Yorkston - The Year Of The Leopard - VINYL LP

Landlady's self-titled fourth album captures exactly that magic. Led by Adam Schatz (vox, keys, sax) and filled out by expertly layered drums, guitar and bass, the album documents four gifted improvisers who share a deep love for music and that connection it fosters. Tackling the evergreen topics of loss and joy, Landlady is a testament to that cosmic anchor formed by the seemingly simple act of playing in a band.This is also an album about survival, which Schatz writes about eloquently, and humorously, in a companion personal essay. He recounts a near fatal wreck while on tour when the Landlady minivan spun out 180 degrees on a highway on a 17-hour drive in a downpour from Seattle to San Francisco during the climax of Harvey Danger's InchFlagpole Sitta.InchThe recording session was an intense week-long retreat at the Outlier Inn in upstate New York's Sullivan County and was engineered by Schatz's longtime recording partner Jake Aron (Grizzly Bear, Snail Mail, Jamie Lidell) for a truly sublime record, at once raw and exploratory, surprising and visceral. Outside of Landlady, Schatz could be heard on tour with Sylvan Esso, Wye Oak and Japanese Breakfast, and appeared on recent albums by This Is The Kit and Becca Mancari, but Landlady is his ultimate excuse to make the sounds he wants to hear in the world, with the people he loves making them with. He wrote this final paragraph himself. There. No more secrets.

When The Haar Rolls In, the fourth studio album by James Yorkston is for sure a masterful thing. It is full of all the ambition, beauty and pathos of his previous albums - and he's even bought back the full, rich arrangements that popularised his early work.1. B's Jig2. Tortoise Regrets Hare3. Temptation4. When The Haar Rolls In5. Queen of Spain6. Midnight Feast7. Would You Have Me Born With Wooden Eyes8. Summer's Not The Same Without You9. The Capture Of The Horse

James Yorkston and The Second Hand Orchestra will The Wide, Wide River on January 22nd. The album came to be after the blossoming of a long-term friendship between James Yorkston and Karl-Jonas Winqvist, the Swedish music producer, leader and conductor of The Second Hand Orchestra. Recorded and mixed in Sweden over the course of three days with a selection of musicians Winqvist had brought together, including Peter Morén (Peter, Bjorn & John), Cecilia Ã-sterholm, Emma Nordenstam (piano & cello) and Ulrika Gyllenberg (violin). The Wide, Wide River is a soothing, warm and sublime listen, The record takes in past loves, advancing age and friends, now gone, whilst also containing some of the most sanguine songs Yorkston has ever made.Vinyl split Side A1. Ella Mary Leather2. To Soothe Her Wee Bit Sorrows3. Choices, Like Wild Rivers4. StruggleSide B1. There Is No Upside2. A Droplet Falls3. A Very Old-Fashioned Blues4. We Test The Beams