James Yorkston - When The Haar Rolls In - VINYL LP

The Path of the Clouds, Marissa Nadler's ninth solo album, is the most stylistically adventurous, lyrically transfixing, and melodically sophisticated collection of songs in her already rich discography. Gripped by wanderlust while suddenlyhousebound at the start of the pandemic in 2020, Nadler escaped into writing, and came back with a stunning set of songs about metamorphosis, love, mysticism, and murder. Blurring the line between reality and fantasy and moving freely between past and present, these 11 deeply personal, self-produced songs find Nadler exploring new landscapes, both sonic and emotional.Nadler tracked the skeletons of the songs at home and then sent them to some choice collaborators, including experimental harpist Mary Lattimore and Simon Raymonde, the Cocteau Twins bassist and her Lost Horizons collaborator. Multi-instrumentalist Milky Burgess, having recently worked on the soundtrack to the film Mandy, adds intricate melodic power throughout the album. Jesse Chandler, Nadler's piano teacher (as well as a member of Mercury Rev and Midlake), plays winding woodwinds and plaintive piano to luminous effect. Fellow singer-songwriter Emma Ruth Rundle contributes a slinky guitar solo on InchTurned Into Air,Inch while Black Mountain's Amber Webber steps in as a vocal foil to Nadler, a ghostly apparition in the distance of InchElegy.Inch Seth Manchester, known for his work with Lingua Ignota, Battles, and Lightning Bolt, mixed the album at Machines with Magnets in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Manchester added dimension to the songs' atmospheric beauty with screeching feedback and distorted guitars. Stripped of the ethereal reverb that often swaddles her resonant vocals, Nadler's delivery now stings and pierces with newfound immediacy and confidence.The Path of the Clouds showcases the power of an artist at the peak of her powers nearly 20 years into an acclaimed c

Confounding genre expectations as ever, The Year Of The Leopard sees James Yorkston write a truly beautiful album, allowing his sparse instrumentation to be produced by former Talk Talk member Paul Webb, giving the album a warm-but-not-too-cosy feel.1. Summer Song2. Steady As She Goes3. The Year Of The Leopard4. 5 a.m.5. Woozy With Cider (Original)6. I Awoke7. The Brussels Rambler8. Orgiva Song9. Don't Let Me Down10. Us Late Travellers

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