ALTER is the brand-new solo album by queer musician & producer Susan Bear (FKA Good Dog) – a much respected and sought-after stalwart of the Scottish music scene and a lynchpin of Lost Map Records. Whether as bassist and keyboardist, producer, songwriter, sound-designer, or something in between, Suse has variously worked with Lost Map artists including Tuff Love, Pictish Trail and Martha Ffion, as well as The Pastels, Tracyanne & Danny, Malcolm Middleton, Poster Paints, Karine Polwart, Amandah Wilkinson (Bossy Love) and on a variety of theatre projects.

Played, recorded, produced and mixed entirely by Suse in her Glasgow studio, the album is introduced by the first single, ‘M6’ - a hazy lo-fi pop gem about reflecting on bad decisions in the past.

ALTER will be released on June 10, 2022 on limited-edition vinyl and digital platforms.

TRACKLISTING

1. Alter
2. M6
3. Mario Golf 2
4. Challenge
5. Slack
6. Projection
7. Sorry
8. Swimming Lessons
9. Alexandra
10. New Ghost

Of the story behind ‘M6’, Suse writes:

“Tangled memories of driving up and down from London in my wee Volkswagen Polo at a time when my first proper band did a lot of ‘one off’ gigs in London. We’d often play then drive straight back up after, which now I think is totally mad. I enjoy long distance driving, it’s kind of mindful (although terrible for the environment).

“I went on a weird holiday to Tuscany that summer with some friends. I was in my early twenties, not making very good decisions. I became nostalgic for that time recently, even though I wasn’t very happy, and my life wasn’t going very well… I think it is nostalgia for recklessness or something, or decisions feeling like they had fewer consequences. When you’re younger it feels like there is more opportunity for ‘trial and error’ with life a little bit. Of course, decisions had consequences back then, I was just too irresponsible to feel them.

“The song’s about that, and observing memories from a safe place (the present).”