Amsterdamned Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 On Friday October 26th, Last Harbour return to Sheffield when they come to WagonWheel Presents… as part of their latest tour promoting critically acclaimed new album ‘Your Heart, It Carries The Sound’. Joining them at Shakespeares will be Tomorrow We Sail and more. Advance tickets priced at £4 are available from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/181133. Entry on the night will be £5. Doors open 8pm. ***LAST HARBOUR*** Based in Manchester, Last Harbour are an expansive collective playing “swooning dustbowl baroque” (Plan B) that is “rich and foreboding” (Drowned in Sound) . From dusty laments to doom- filled rock, from starkly beautiful duets to drifting clouds of looped noise, the only claims they make for their music are that it is honest and heartfelt. Their new album ‘ Your Heart, It Carries The Sound ‘ was written in isolation in a small Northumbrian cottage in October 2010 and recorded in April 2011 in St Margaret’s Church, Manchester. The songs are recorded almost entirely live, with producer Sam Lench employing the church as a soundstage. His approach carefully uses the architecture of the building to sculpt and shape the music, creating a sense of the band within the space. This new album sees a different approach from their previous album ‘ Volo ‘ (2010) , a dense, textured album co-produced by Richard Formby (best known for his recent work with Wild Beasts). For ‘ Your Heart, It Carries The Sound ‘, the band stripped back the arrangements and placed a mature, more direct concentration at the core of each song. The confident, intimate vocal of K Craig is at the centre, the instrumentation is sparser, and the band’s line-up has changed with piano, tenor guitar, heavily-processed guitar effects and organ to the fore. The addition of vintage analogue synths and waves of natural reverb give ‘ Your Heart, It Carries The Sound ‘ a timeless, ephemeral aspect. “This album sounds magnificent.” The Sunday Times “With their gothic archness and deathly strings, Last Harbour offer chilly, semi- orchestral comforts from the same tangled patch of briar as The Bad Seeds and Tindersticks.” Uncut “The sheer beauty of Last Harbour’s songs is hugely uplifting. Equals the best of Lee & Nancy.” What’s On In London http://www.lastharbour.co.uk ***TOMORROW WE SAIL*** Tomorrow We Sail is a group of seven musicians based in Leeds and Sheffield. Formed in 2009 they have spent time developing and honing their sound into what is now a vast landscape of reverb-soaked guitars, orchestral strings, piano, accordion and multi-layered vocals. Their influences are as far-ranging as folk, slowcore, neoclassicism and post-rock and their sound has been described as ‘glacial’, ‘ethereal’ and ‘epic’, drawing comparisons with bands such as Sigur Ros, Elbow, Her Name Is Calla and Gregor Samsa. http://www.tomorrowwesail.co.uk Facebook Event page: http://www.facebook.com/events/349394638477977 Last.fm Event page: http://www.last.fm/event/3367103 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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