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Bobby Womb – Epiphany Day
Wise Blood Industries’ very own Bobby Womb, aka Jon McCall of ex-Y’all is Fantasy Island has issued his new EP Epiphany Day via Bandcamp.
If you aren’t familiar with Womb’s music you are in for a treat: instrumental sound collages with clarinet, percussion and stylophone melting into a psychedelic mish-mash of fragmented memories from a dimly remembered autumn in 1989.
Free to stream and download for nowt now from here, make sure you have an Epiphany Day.
A LP release on tape and limited edition CD is planned for summer on WBI…
Recent Reviews
Some lovely words hath been written about the recent Stafford/Radio Trees Jaunt across the North, read them below:
“The intensity of a slow-motion preacher…” – Manic Pop Thrills live review
“He can build songs from one guitar line or one vocal part and have them loop back… creating mesmerizing, complex songs that are utterly brilliant…” – Glasgow Podcart live review
“His ability to make stunning music through looping his voice and/or his guitar at times looks and sounds like some sort of trick on your ears and eyes being performed by a member of the Magic Circle…” – The Vinyl Villain live review
Stafford plays two Glasgow dates in May:
May 10th - Mono, King’s Court w/John Knox Sex Club, 8pm
May 19th – Stagg & Dagger Festival, The Captain’s Rest, Afternoon show at 4pm
A CD re-release of Build a Harbour Immediately is planned for later this year.
All bookings or press requests please email info{at}wisebloodindustries{dot}com
Sonny Carntyne on Wise Blood
It is with great pleasure to announce that Dundee-based Sonny Carntyne issues his debut EP Unicorns & Ghosts on Wise Blood Industries.
Initially self-released last year, the set displays Carntyne’s beautiful song craft, evoking early Red House Painters & Vic Chestnutt.
Download the EP for Free here & Stream from Bandcamp here!
“Beautiful.” – Kristin Hersh, Throwing Muses
End of Year lists & Live Video
Adam Stafford’s LP Build a Harbour Immediately has turned up on a number of End-of-Year lists in the blogging community. Thank you to everyone who bought the LP and supported Adam during 2011.
#1 LP of the Year – Peenko
#1 LP of the Year – Ayetunes (#3 LP in Reader’s Poll)
#2 LP of the Year – Scottish BAMS
#4 LP of the Year – Jockrock
#13 LP of the Year – GoldFlakePaint
#18 LP of the Year – Isthismusic?
Vic Galloway’s LP’s of the Year
The Herald‘s LP Round-Up 2011
#32 LP of the Year – Sweeping The Nation
#50 LP of the Year – The Skinny Magazine
Best Records of the Year – Glasgow PodCart
#7 LP of the Year – Songs Heard on Fast Trains
#7 LP of the Year – Fresh Air FM
#30 LP of the Year – The Tidal Wave of Indifference
#30 LP of the Year – Dead Sound
#45 Songs of the year (Festive 50) – Song, by Toad
If you haven’t heard it – please buy the album HERE!
Build a Harbour Immediately
Adam Stafford (formerly Y’all is Fantasy Island) issues his new solo LP Build a Harbour Immediately on Aug 15th (digitally) & 22nd via Wise Blood. Co-produced and recorded by Paul Savage (ex-Delgados & Mogwai producer) at Chem 19 in Hamilton last year, the album features contributions from Emily Scott and Zoey Van Goey’s Kim Moore among others.
Stream, buy & download the album digitally from the WBI Bandcamp page.
Praise for Build a Harbour Immediately:
“But this is the thing – it’s not a problem except for reviewers – that Stafford’s oeuvre is hard to define…” – 5/5 isthismusic? review
“Like Bjork’s ‘Vespertine’ and Radiohead’s ‘Kid A’, this will be slotted firmly in as one of the albums of my generation…” – The Glasgow Podcart Reveiw
“Between Y’All is Fantasy Island and various other projects, he’s amassed quite the discography. This surely ranks high amongst them, with tracks frequently setting off in one direction, before Stafford whips around to challenge assumptions…” 4/5 – The Skinny Magazine review
“Stafford’s album is lyrically vivid, vocally striking and roundly impressive…” 4/5 – The List Magazine review
“…It is like a journey which begins composed and relatively straightforward but gradually fragments and drifts in to more abstract territory. After all that is what any good album ought to be…” – The Sonic Reverie Review
“Close to some of his finest work here, Stafford is a remarkable songwriter capable of delivering chillingly observed and sometimes far from easy-to-digest stories, whether in the shape of tight, literate pop music or the more expansive and experimental elements he employs…” – Songs Heard on Fast Trains review
“Powerful, beautiful tracks that range from sing-along crowd pleasers to dreamy soundscapes to down right jaw dropping craftsmanship leave us just waiting to experience this live.” – The Rave Child review
You can also buy the album on ultra-rare yellow cassette from our online distributors Insularis Records here (unfortunately now SOLD OUT!).
Listen to the lead single Fire & Theft below:
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