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…

“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

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

Download the 4-track EP (with cover art) for FREE here!

1. Ramona

2. 24 (A)

3. Lies Framing Snapshots

4. Unicorns & Ghosts

Written, arranged and performed by Sonny Carntyne. Produced by Reeds. Artwork by Michelle Souter. All rights reserved. Exclusive licesence to Wise Blood Industries 2012.

Bobbywomb on his music:
“It was the year that wearing a CD on a chain around your neck first became popular.  I plugged a microphone into a computer and checked the recording device was set to ‘Blue Snowball.’  My father laughed loudly when he realised what I was doing, then demanded golf magazines be brought from a dentist’s waiting room.  Since then I’ve been striving to capture the sound of slowly whirring metal balloons, steep hills and cold legs.  I live in London and am survived by my wife-to-be, two parents and three siblings.”

Download Womb’s 2 EPs for FREE:

Dwarf Management

Cona Glen Falls

#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!

The Threads of Sound label have also issued a single of two brand new Live Stafford tracks - download them HERE!

Check the video performance of Add Mask at the same show HERE!

Read some notable articles on Build a Harbour below:

“Cult pop-hero emerges from cultural vortex…” –  The Glasgow Herald Interview

“Build a Harbour Immediately… marks the creative rebirth of a talented and much-loved musician. However it’s funded and however it’s played live, we think it’s a little bit special.” – The Scotsman Radar interview

“I’ve realised that you can’t second guess an audiences taste at all…” The GoldFlakePaint Interview

“I do think what I do is good, otherwise I wouldn’t do it!” – The Falkirk Herald interview

“Adam Stafford has crafted an album of pure joy that is going to take a lot beating for my album of the year…” – Peenko Build a Harbour Track-by-Track

“The disparate parts are limbs all connecting to the same body…” – Argos Barks, an interview with Adam Stafford

Bookings for Stafford: info[at]wisebloodindustries[dot]com

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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Recorded and mixed by Paul Savage at Chem 19 Studios Nov. 2010.

Funded by The Scottish Arts Council (Recording Grant 2009).

Stream/buy/download the LP from our Bandcamp page HERE!

Buy a physical copy on limited edition bright yellow cassette (with download code) HERE (SOLD OUT!)!

Adam Stafford – Fire & Theft (Single)

Download the zipfile containing 2 mp3s and album artwork for FREE here!

1. Fire & Theft

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2. Shot-down You Summer Wannabes (Miaoux Miaoux remix)

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Credits: #1 written by Stafford. Produced, recorded & mixed by Paul Savage at Chem 19 in Nov. 10. Backing vocals by Louise Ward and Robbie Lesiuk. From the LP Build a Harbour Immediately on Wise Blood Industries Aug 22nd 2011. All rights reserved Wise Blood Industries 2011.

#2 written by Stafford. Remix produced by Miaoux Miaoux (J. Corrie) July 2011. Original version from the LP Build a Harbour Immediately. All rights reserved Wise Blood Industries 2011.

Following 2009′s Outside World Strategies Vol.1, MJ has found time to record its companion piece, Vol. 2.

Leaping between a wide cross-section of genres, from electro-pop, to expansive ballads, to noisy over-driven indie guitar Vol.2 might just be one of the most exciting additions to the WBI catalogue.

Download it for FREE here, and check out the brilliant This Head is Not For Sale below.

This Head is Not For Sale