WAYPOINTS #158
15/05/20
"THE PRIEST WAS A NO-SHOW"
FEAT: MARTHA FFION, SAVAGE MANSION, GOOD DOG,
V I S I T ▲ T I O N S , RICK ASTLEY + MORE...
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Hello again and congratulations on getting through another half-month in cOrOnA hELL™ since we last saw you. Your eyes are wilder, your hair looks like a bear wouldn't shit in it and you're getting a bit on the shall-we-say heavy side – facing a mirror as we write this btw – but other than that, good work making it this far, have another entire family sized Swiss roll to yourself why don't you. Better yet here is some good news: the long-awaited return of Martha Ffion.
‘After the Fact’ is the brand-new single from the Scottish Album of the Year Award nominated Glasgow-based Irish singer-songwriter who confusingly isn't called Martha in real life at all but in fact is called Claire (McKay). Available to stream and share now via digital platforms, and also available as a postcard single as part of Lost Map’s PostMap Club subscription service, it’s the first taste of Martha Claire’s forthcoming much-anticipated second album Nights to Forget, which will be released on August 14, 2020 on 12” vinyl and via digital platforms. A harmonic sunshine pop song with a disquieting undertow, juxtaposing lilting vocals with dissonant stabs of off-kilter guitar, ‘After the Fact’ was written a couple of summers ago, at a time when Claire was, she says, “questioning things I could have done differently in the wake of a difficult event” (did she too regret comfort eating an entire family sized Swiss roll?).
“It’s a sort of rumination on the (often unhelpful) things you tell yourself and the platitudes that we sometimes offer up to others when we don’t know what else to say,” Claire explains. “Ultimately it’s about taking comfort in the idea that, no matter how bizarre or hard the thing you’re going through is, there’s probably at least one other person in the world who has been through it too.
“It began minimally – with just drums, bass and harmonies – but one day when Dave Frazer (who produced the album) and I were recording, he started messing about with these really angular, discordant guitar parts. I started suggesting putting them in on more off the offbeats, jarring with the rhythm and melodies. So most of those parts on the recording are his spontaneous playing on that day – testament to what an amazing guitarist he is.”
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SAVAGE MANSION LIVE-ISH IN SESSION
The unmistakable sensation of a stranger's sweaty crotch grinding against you in the crowd, warm dregs of a pint of what you hope is lager exploding against the back of your head, ears blasted, legs tired, endlessly dying for a piss... life just isn't the same without the unique pleasure of music concerts AKA "gigs". As we eagerly await their return in the year 2079, performed entirely by holograms except for Rick Astley who by some devious miracle of science is still alive and looking more youthful than ever, it has become necessary for artists to improvise clever online substitutes. So join us, if you will, Friday, May 29, for a night out (in) with Savage Mansion.
Not long before "lockdown" began – as some call this endless purgatory of sourdough bread breaking, yoga and/or wanking – the Savs had the impressive foresight to record an entire set live at the Hug and Pint in Glasgow. They've saved it up to soothe us just when we're all close to breaking point, ready to embark on a violent spree in the fruit'n'veg section of Tesco, defying the one-way system to stab people at random with a sharpened parsnip. On the last Friday of this month, we'll be streaming the set in full at a designated time TBA. We invite you all to watch it with us. Together, apart. Drinking steadily and solemnly but with renewed vigor and resolve in the lonely comfort of our own homes, deep into the night. To get you in the mood, a teaser of one song – 'Old Country', a standout track from Savage Mansion's outstanding latest album Weird Country – is available to watch now. We’re also releasing a postcard with the live versions of 'Old Country' and ' The International' as part of May's PostMap Club (see below).
There'll be additional entertainment laid on in the form of a virtual pub quiz hosted by Craig from Savage Mansion (maybe). Rumour has it Romeo Taylor might support, if he hasn't been locked up by then for fighting the guy from Taste of Asia. It'll be just like a real life gig, then, except without the stranger's crotch in your ass and all the pint throwing. Unless you want to arrange that extra stuff yourself in which case fine, it's your house and we don't judge. |
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PRE-ORDER GOOD DOG'S DEBUT ALBUM + WATCH THE VIDEO FOR 'BUMBLEBEE'
- Solo project by Suse Bear of the Pictish Trail band, Tuff Love, The Pastels etc
- Debut album Creature out May 22 on ULTRA limited-edition CD-R
- Contains v. good song 'Floating', which has been added to Apple Music's Breaking Alternative playlist
- Woof
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WATCH A NEW TRAILER FOR
V I S I T ▲ T I O N S
Last summer five large American men in boiler suits and red beanies by the collective name of Arthur King came to Eigg and, when not crammed into a small bothy sleeping or getting completely wasted, they sampled the shit out of the island. The resulting record we've released as part of our V I S I T ▲ T I O N S series, a three-part set of special limited-edition EPs, written and recorded in residency in splendid isolation and rural seclusion on our Hebridean home. If you'd like to hear Arthur King explain their sample-tastic creative process in their own words, then have a watch of the first installment of a set of lil' teaser videos we've put together, featuring snippets of interviews from the Lost Map Podcast. Or alternatively just listen to the podcast? Or do both? Neither? Just stay in bed crying all day? Up to you.
Arthur King is a revolving collective of musicians, visual artists and filmmakers including Jason Lytle, frontman with alt-rock pioneers Grandaddy. Arthur King arrived on Eigg in the week leading up to our Howlin’ Fling festival last year. They stayed for a week and made a load of weird trippy visuals, some of which was projected onto the side of a house, and a load of weird trippy music featuring the sound of things like water and trees and sheep and flags, some of which is captured on their V I S I T ▲ T I O N S EP.
It's available now on both 12” vinyl (with download) or as a download only, exclusively as part of a subscription service, which can be signed-up to now from just £25. The other two EPs in the series by Rachel Aggs and Rozi Plain will be released respectively across the course of 2020, and are included in your subscription cost. It's a good deal, take the deal. Take it. |
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MAY POSTMAP CLUB MULTI-BANGER –
INTRODUCING: UNDERMEDVETENHETEN
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U WOT M8 we hear you ask, and yes fair enough you do have a point. Let us break it down for you – or try... Undermedvetenheten – that's UNDER-MED-VETEN-HETEN – is the new project by John B. McKenna, whom you ought to recognise as Lost Map long-timer Monoganon. Based in Malmö, Sweden, John has recorded a mesmerising ambient album which is the soundtrack for a science-fantasy role playing game, in which players take on the roles of humans aboard a space vessel, hurtling on an infinite journey into "the void" (not to be confused with "Dundee"). He recorded all the music; the concept is a collaboration with Richard Greenan from Kit Records. We’ll be co-releasing the album on vinyl in June with Kit and John’s imprint Foundation of the Teacherock. Still with us so far? Good.
You can get a little taste of the album as part of the PostMap Club this month, in the shape of the track 'Smörgåsbord', a nine-minute drone of warm synths and free-style goose honk. "The Undermedvetenheten," explains John, "is a strange government entity that has made contact with Carl Jung's collective unconscious (the name is a stupid bureaucratic Swedish pun of the 'collective unconscious'). But the music is truly very simple, like me playing with mud and sticks and it is really all about my strong desire to communicate with animals." No we don't really understand what he's on about either but it is a v. good album, trust us.
The other PostMap postcards for our May multi-banger include 'After the Fact' by Martha Ffion, live versions of 'Old Country' and 'The International' by Savage Mansion and possibly even another one by Happy Spendy if we get our shit together in time. Here's a reminder of the full benefits of being in the PostMap Club and the two membership tiers on offer:
REGULAR BREW
- (£3 + postage, per month)
- Postcards! At least two collectible PostMap postcards sent to your door at the end of every month – each containing download codes for a mixture of brand new music on Lost Map, alongside a random selection from our archives. When you sign up you'll also receive the previous month's postcards, completely free
- Badge! Plus a new badge for every year of your subscription
- Monthly newsletter! Containing hot goss / farmyard shite
- Discounts! On other Lost Map releases, merchandise and gigs
- Feelgood glow! Help support an independent record label to continue its business in challenging circumstances
GOLD BLEND
- (£5 + postage, per month)
- All of the above except with a bigger badge
- Invitation to all-night Zoom DJ session feat Carl Jung [deep house] b2b The Collective Unconscious [Euro trance]
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