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Cold Seeds

Matthew — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:14:59 +0000

CD only, buy on 12″vinyl: here.

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This album was recorded over a couple of weekends at our house last year. Frances from Animal Magic Tricks recorded three songs with Neil and Pete from Meursault, and then Kenny came around for the second weekend to add his songs to the mix. This album really wasn’t planned, it’s just that by the time Frances had added her touches to the three Meursault songs on the second Sunday, everything just seemed to belong together.

It’s all messy as hell, there are clicks and noises and all sorts going on, there’s even a cameo performance from our idiotic cat Floyd in the first song, and yet the resulting album is one of the strangest, most beautiful records I’ve heard in a very long time.

1. Leave Me to Lie Alone in the Ground
2. King
3. Bubble
4. Sleet
5. Crank Resolutions
6. By 11 O’Clock She’d Left
7. The Perfume of Mexican Birds
8. Soil
9. Please Don’t Send Me Home

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All Creatures Will Make Merry

Matthew — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:56:50 +0000

The new Meursault album is being released on the 24th May 2010, but we will be making a limited run of hand-printed copies, which will be available from this site and at live shows from their album launch on the 10th April onwards. If you pre-order from here, you’ll get one of those copies the week of the launch party.

This album is rather different from its predecessor, and I genuinely have no idea what Meursault’s growing army of fans are going to make of it. It’s denser in many ways, dirty and noisy, and yet as sad and heartbreaking as you’d expect from the band.

When we were writing all the press blurb, Neil decided to describe the album as ‘epic lo-fi’ and even though that is an almost totally meaningless term, it still seems to describe All Creatures pretty well. With two new band members joining, there was a danger that the cello or the electric guitar would end up swamping this record, but it’s all been handled very carefully.

I think the first time I heard this album through I pretty much summed up what I felt about it in a single sentence: there’s not so much as a weak twenty seconds on here, anywhere.

1. Payday
2. Crank Resolutions
3. All Creatures Will Make Merry
4. Weather
5. One Day This’ll All Be Fields
6. What You Don’t Have
7. Another
8. New Ruin
9. Sleet
10. Song for Martin Kippenberger
11. A Fair Exchange

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Cold Seeds

Matthew — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:09:16 +0000

Buy on CD: here.

Digital Downloads: iTunes – eMusic – Amazon mp3 (coming soon)

1. Leave Me to Lie Alone in the Ground
2. King
3. Bubble
4. Sleet
5. Crank Resolutions
6. By 11 O’Clock She’d Left
7. The Perfume of Mexican Birds
8. Soil
9. Please Don’t Send Me Home

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William Henry Miller Pt.1/The Dirt & the Roots

Matthew — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:28:38 +0000

These two singles were recorded as a pair because, erm… well because we all really love vinyl and we wanted to have some to our name before the band disappear for three or four months to record the new album in the new year.

The singles include new recordings of William Henry Miller Parts One and Two with the full band, including new members Phil Quirie on guitar and Pete Harvey on cello. Dan Willson from Withered Hand and Bart Owl from eagleowl provide guest vocals on Parts One and Two respectively. The resulting recordings are really dense and layered, and some of my favourite things I’ve ever heard from the band.

1. William Henry Miller Part 1 (Single Version)

2. The Dirt & the Roots

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Buy as a pair £6 – These two singles are being released together because we see all four songs as going together, so you can buy them as a pair by clicking the buy button below.

A Few Kind Words/William Henry Miller Pt.2

Matthew — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:28:15 +0000

The singles include new recordings of William Henry Miller Parts One and Two with the full band, including new members Phil Quirie on guitar andPete Harvey on cello. Dan Willson from Withered Hand and Bart Owl from eagleowl provide guest vocals on Parts One and Two respectively. The resulting recordings are really dense and layered, and some of my favourite things I’ve ever heard from the band.

1. A Few Kind Words
2. William Henry Miller Pt.2 (Single Version)

Digital Download – iTunes – eMusic – Amazon mp3

Buy as a pair £6 – These two singles are being released together because we see all four songs as going together, so you can buy them as a pair by clicking the buy button below.

Nothing Broke

Matthew — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:17:37 +0000

This acoustic EP is a little on the morose side, barring the pop gem William Henry Miller Pt.1, but I love sad music, so there you go. This is only available here and at gigs until the middle of July. Oh, and that’s a hand-painted and detailed egg there on the cover. And I wrote the Nothing Broke bit too. It’s like being back in primary school arts & crafts all over again.

1. Nothing Broke
2. Red Candle Bulb
3. Love or Limb
4. William Henry Miller Pt.1
5. William Henry Miller Pt.2

Digital download – iTunes – eMusic – Amazon mp3.

Pissing on Bonfires / Kissing With Tongues

Matthew — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:37:46 +0000

This is pretty much my favourite album of this year, and we’ll be releasing The Furnace on 7″ vinyl later in the year, so keep an eye out for that.

1. Salt, Pt. 1
2. Statues of Strangers
3. The Furnace (Alternate version for preview.)
4. Pissing on Bonfires/Kissing With Tongues
5. Salt, Pt. 2
6. The Dirt & the Roots
7. A Few Kind Words
8. A Small Stretch of Land
9. Ampersand After Ampersand
10. Lament For a Teenage Millionaire
11. Oh, Neighbourhood!

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