As you may know, Ruth is currently taking a break from music to be with her gorgeous, and remarkably coiffured, new baby. We are now playing with a fabulously talented young man from Leeds by the name of Joe Cox. Joe has recently graduated from Leeds College of Music with a 2:1 in jazz (would an 11:8 not have been more appropriate for a jazz degree?) and he certainly has a bright future ahead of him.
Our quest for a drummer took us in several directions in the early part of 2013. We had a few enjoyable gigs with Gary Stewart and then Aid of Drum Machine on the sticks. Then Albert became acquainted with Joe on Instagram. We seem to have a knack of finding drummers via social media, having previously found Jonny Newell on Myspace when that network was the bee’s knees a few years ago. But when we started our search for a drummer earlier this year we wouldn’t have anticipated a photo sharing network would ultimately bring us together with a drummer. But it did, and we are very happy about it indeed.
We have already had a handful of gigs and a church session with Joe over the summer. We are also working on some new songs with him and we have enough ideas to form the follow up to our Molehills Out Of Mountains album. We haven’t started recording yet but we are road testing some of the new songs, so if you are coming to see us live over the next few months you will hear some of them.
Our album, Molehills out of Mountains, is now finally available across a range of digital stores, and the initial reviews have been pretty encouraging. As if this in itself isn’t exciting enough, we are also giving away a special album bundle. More on that towards the bottom of the page. We have also got a brand new promo video for the album:
The video you have (hopefully) just watched here is hosted on Vimeo, but if you are more into Youtube, you will also find it there. In fact, the entire Molehills out of Mountains album is (in one form or another) in this Youtube playlist. If you want to add a comment on, and/or share, your favourite song from the album, please do. We’ve also got 3 more full song videos in the pipeline. More news on those in the coming weeks.
Anyway… back to this week’s album release. Molehills out of Mountains has been available directly from us, as well as from Crash Records and Jumbo Records in Leeds for several weeks, but now it has a wider release. The album is now on the following digital stores. Simply click any one of these to be taken straight to our album:
The album is probably on other digital stores too, so if you see it anywhere else, please use the comments section at the bottom of this page to let us know where you have seen it for sale. You can also now stream the album on Spotify.
So far, we’ve seen five reviews of Molehills out of Mountains, and each one has had good things to say about it, and there have been some interesting observations. We’ve included quotes from all five reviews on the What People Say page of our website. Here is just one excerpt, from the Leeds Music Scene review:
“The carefully crafted and intricately arranged album is astonishingly good…An all round winner and an album I can tell I’ll return to when I’m in need of some perspective.”
Now, as mentioned at the top, to celebrate the widescale digital release of Molehills out of Mountains, we are giving away a signed vinyl copy of the album, including the full CD, a t-shirt and a badge set.
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