"ships on the horizon / left to ride along the bulge of the world / staring out to sea / waving back at me..."
LINER NOTES (excerpted / bracketed):
[The new album (out March the 6th) is co-released by Scottish label Lost Map and Swedish label Sing a song fighter. Recorded at studios in London, St Leonards-on-Sea and Margate and fine-tuned in his own home studio in Walthamstow, the list of collaborators includes string-arranger and multi-instrumentalist Emma Smith (Pulp, Beth Gibbons), drummers Chris Vatalaro (Anohni, Radiohead) and Aram Zarikian (Grasscut), and horns player Joe Auckland (Madness, Oasis), Additional production and engineering comes from by Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno, Jon Hopkins) and Mike Lindsay (Tunng, Lump). Abrahams also mixed the album.]
[The album’s title track and new single is an emotional centrepiece -‘Ships’ - takes its unabashedly romantic chorus from a Tracy Emin neon artwork on Margate harbour, and sails on a breeze of sweeping, delicately detailed progressive pop worthy of prime Brian Wilson.]
[Seamus (whose music was played the other day by Iggy Pop on his radio show) says: "I think there’s a few miserable songs on the new album for sure – obligatory at this stage,” he grins, “but to my mind there’s something strangely uplifting about this collection, more so than anything I’ve released before. I know I have it better than most people but I still find it hard to persevere and keep going and that’s probably the main theme of the album. It’s honest in a way that my other albums haven’t always been, which is why I’m so sure it’s going to be a massive hit.”]
[Seamus (whose music was played the other day by Iggy Pop on his radio show) says: "I think there’s a few miserable songs on the new album for sure – obligatory at this stage,” he grins, “but to my mind there’s something strangely uplifting about this collection, more so than anything I’ve released before. I know I have it better than most people but I still find it hard to persevere and keep going and that’s probably the main theme of the album. It’s honest in a way that my other albums haven’t always been, which is why I’m so sure it’s going to be a massive hit.”]
"Ships" in the final analysis is the kind of song that will inspire other artists to make their art whether it is a song or two or maybe even a full fledged movie or episodic tale. I feel this in my bones.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Seamus Fogarty's poetic, experimental songs combine folk-rock and more rustic traditional folk with electronic elements including synthesizers and sound effects. His full-length debut, God Damn You Mountain, saw release in 2012. While continuing to rely on instruments like guitar and banjo, he leaned more heavily into synths, samples, and field recordings on albums including 2020's A Bag of Eyes. A native of County Mayo, Ireland, London-based musician Seamus Fogarty started offering his first tour CD-Rs, including Home Game EP and Haarfest EP, circa 2010. His first proper album arrived on the U.K.'s Fence Records in 2012. Titled God Damn You Mountain, the self-recorded release featured appearances by vocalists Dorota Konczewska and Emma Smith. An expanded edition followed a year later on Lost Map Records. Among other short-form releases, the 2014 EP Computer Graph was slightly reworked as Ducks and Drakes for Lost Map in 2015. Fogarty's early recordings made a fan of Domino, which signed him for his second album, The Curious Hand, issued in 2017. It was co-produced by Leo Abrahams (Regina Spektor, Sam Amidon). The EP The Old Suit followed in 2018. Again featuring Emma Smith as well as Abrahams and singer/songwriter Meilyr Jones, among other contributors, the full-length A Bag of Eyes arrived on Domino in November 2020. ~ Marcy Donelson, Rovi
The Chicken Wheel will take you to the AP Go Fund Me- and any amount is so appreciated!
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https://www.instagram.com/seamusfog
https://seamusfogarty.com/
https://singasongfighter.bandcamp.com/track/ships
https://www.facebook.com/singasongfighter/
Seamus Fogarty's poetic, experimental songs combine folk-rock and more rustic traditional folk with electronic elements including synthesizers and sound effects. His full-length debut, God Damn You Mountain, saw release in 2012. While continuing to rely on instruments like guitar and banjo, he leaned more heavily into synths, samples, and field recordings on albums including 2020's A Bag of Eyes. A native of County Mayo, Ireland, London-based musician Seamus Fogarty started offering his first tour CD-Rs, including Home Game EP and Haarfest EP, circa 2010. His first proper album arrived on the U.K.'s Fence Records in 2012. Titled God Damn You Mountain, the self-recorded release featured appearances by vocalists Dorota Konczewska and Emma Smith. An expanded edition followed a year later on Lost Map Records. Among other short-form releases, the 2014 EP Computer Graph was slightly reworked as Ducks and Drakes for Lost Map in 2015. Fogarty's early recordings made a fan of Domino, which signed him for his second album, The Curious Hand, issued in 2017. It was co-produced by Leo Abrahams (Regina Spektor, Sam Amidon). The EP The Old Suit followed in 2018. Again featuring Emma Smith as well as Abrahams and singer/songwriter Meilyr Jones, among other contributors, the full-length A Bag of Eyes arrived on Domino in November 2020. ~ Marcy Donelson, Rovi
Seamus Fogarty, singer-songwriter, musician, folk rock, indie rock, traditional folk, new folk, nu folk, "Ships" (Official Video), folk pop, broad pop, American song book, rustic, dense lyricism, New album "Ships",
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