Salt Collective - Life - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

A Brief History of Blindness is a follow-up to Life, the critically acclaimed 2023 album debut from French songwriter-guitarist Stéphane Schück's international collaborative project, The Salt Collective. The new album features contributions from Aimee Mann, Mike Mills (R.E.M.), Andy Partridge (XTC), Matthew Caws (Nada Surf), Jason Falkner (Jellyfish), Mitch Easter (Let's Active) Pat Sansone (Wilco), & Chris Stamey (The dB's), among others.

On their third LP the band pay homage to their hometown of Hull and it's folk. North East Coastal Town is mature; it finds the band at the height of their powers as they carve-up a wide-screen, brooding body of work that is drenched in a sense of belonging and reflection but still impressively maintains their trademark swagger and ear for pop sensibilities and guitar hooks.InchHull and the surrounding area runs through our DNA and has shaped us, weathered us, empowered us, embraced us. When writing and recording this album it was important to us that this sense of belonging was also reflected in the album's craft and therefore we used local studios, equipment, gear, and the community around us to establish what it means to belong in a North East Coastal Town.InchThey began rebuilding with 'Friends Without Names' - the first glimpse from the album - which was added to the A-List at BBC 6Music, and was recorded in the dead of night and hums with a dark, brooding and passionate atmosphere. InchFriends Without Names is the anchor and blueprint for our next record. In a remote part of Eastern England, close to the river Humber, we performed this track as if we were in trance; vibrating in a constant musical crescendo. Our aim was to push ourselves and harness differing time zones whilst giving in to the moments of beauty, horror, love and chaos depicted by the song's lyrics.Inch (Mez Green, vocals)InchThis band are flexing their creativity for sure, This is LIFE we are talking about, they'll always have something to say, something to stand for, a band to get lost in for sureInch Jack Saunders, BBC RADIO 101. Friends Without Names02. Big Moon Lake03. Incomplete04. Almost Home05. Duck Egg Blue06. Shipping Forecast07. Poison08. Self Portrait09. The Drug10. Our Love Is Growing11. All You Are

Singer-songwriter and composer, Kate Stables returns with a wondrous new This Is the Kit album, Careful of Your Keepers, that chronicles a world of mistakes and mishaps, cruel circumstances, and universe-driven surprises. It's a record that embraces the concept of outrospection - the idea that you get to know oneself by developing relationships and empathic thinking with others - and brings the Paris-based, UK born bandleader's signature ability to move swiftly between cryptic poetry to honest inquisition to the fore. Guiding the ship through changing seas is producer Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals), who deftly enhances the innate shared language that Stables has with her band, capturing beautiful instrumental performances while leaving the space required for her robust, silken voice to lead. The music here is daring and soft, cutting and warm, a wild feat of complexity and combined dispositions. Surviving change is a constant throughout this record and This Is the Kit takes us to the front lines in InchMore Change,Inch where we celebrate the losing battle of fighting change with barbed dancing lyrics that whisk us from the mundane to the massive as a steady beat and delicate guitars wind in and out, down and around Stables words Inchlight bulb / life changing / found a friend... claw sanity back again.Inch The sonic brilliance always comes back to bite and the cascading melodies of InchStuck In A RoomInch plant the listener in the most familiar of recent quandaries, wanting to leave but being unable to. There are so many versions of InchleavingInch one might be attracted to in this disappointing modern age, and Stables works through them all. Conflict hits hard and with surprise but have the right people around you and you can escape by the skin of your teeth.