Plays Hard To Get
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Short Stretch of Day 2:19
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You'll Wade 4:34
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Try Hard 2:55
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Pinballs 4:54
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Bar 37 Will Shock You! 3:54
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I Shouldn't Have Watched The Film What Lies Beneath (When I Was Twelve) 3:33
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Blue Sky Sinking 3:07
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Least Violent Time 2:32
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Ah 7:10
Released May 25, 2018
Chris W Ryan - Vocals, Drums, Production
Nathan Rodgers - Bass, Effects
Ryan Burrowes - Bass, Effects
Tom Tabori - Saxophones, Effects
Paul O’ Reilly - Clarinets, Saxophones
Thibault Barillon - Saxophones
Simon Templeton - Piano
Laura McFadden - Cello
Richard Hadwen - Viola
Clare Hadwen - Violin
Maebh Martin - Violin
Patrick Gardiner - Vocals
Sean Joseph - Vocals
Johno Whittington - Additional Engineering, Percussion
Chris Brazier - Additional Engineering
Stephen Quinn - Mastering
Timothy Farrell - Artwork, Layout
Supported by The National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
"This record was written and recorded at the same time so there is a lot of figuring-out present in the recordings. I think it was a reaction against the idea that you should only record what you can feasibly play live. I was listening to a lot of Beach Boys and Talk Talk and realised that if you just try to make something cool, it could remain interesting long after your band breaks up and you stop playing live. Some of the weirdness includes: For one bar in Pinballs the entire mix goes through two Ampeg 8x10 bass amps and then cuts back... Blue Sky Sinking was an attempt at making a bunch of clarinets and saxophones sound like a granular synthesizer. Least Violent Time has a snare drum layered by a cat 'meow' from a casiotone keyboard. It took us about a year of playing these songs live before we could actually play them properly OOPS sorry to the people who saw us live that year. Fun fact: two of the songs on this record have lyrics about eating in a Nepalese restaurant in Belfast" - Chris, April 2020
Nathan Rodgers - Bass, Effects
Ryan Burrowes - Bass, Effects
Tom Tabori - Saxophones, Effects
Paul O’ Reilly - Clarinets, Saxophones
Thibault Barillon - Saxophones
Simon Templeton - Piano
Laura McFadden - Cello
Richard Hadwen - Viola
Clare Hadwen - Violin
Maebh Martin - Violin
Patrick Gardiner - Vocals
Sean Joseph - Vocals
Johno Whittington - Additional Engineering, Percussion
Chris Brazier - Additional Engineering
Stephen Quinn - Mastering
Timothy Farrell - Artwork, Layout
Supported by The National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
"This record was written and recorded at the same time so there is a lot of figuring-out present in the recordings. I think it was a reaction against the idea that you should only record what you can feasibly play live. I was listening to a lot of Beach Boys and Talk Talk and realised that if you just try to make something cool, it could remain interesting long after your band breaks up and you stop playing live. Some of the weirdness includes: For one bar in Pinballs the entire mix goes through two Ampeg 8x10 bass amps and then cuts back... Blue Sky Sinking was an attempt at making a bunch of clarinets and saxophones sound like a granular synthesizer. Least Violent Time has a snare drum layered by a cat 'meow' from a casiotone keyboard. It took us about a year of playing these songs live before we could actually play them properly OOPS sorry to the people who saw us live that year. Fun fact: two of the songs on this record have lyrics about eating in a Nepalese restaurant in Belfast" - Chris, April 2020