Description
CD Release Date Friday 7th June 2024
LP Release Date Friday 21st June 2024
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.
Days of Shaking continues M G's exploration into the kitchen sink dramas
of modern suburbia but behind these songs of frustrated opportunities
and the mundane realities of day to day modern living is a world of
rumour and mystery, urban myths and the magical thinking we all use to
bring shape to our lives, expectations and hopes
Like a modern day book of wonders, the songs of Days of Shaking hint at UFO
sightings, potential cave gods and visitations of the dead in dreams, all adding to
the rich texture of people's wants and needs but ultimately our belief in hope. This
balance is seen in the title track and album opener where the protagonist
wonders whether he has witnessed a UFO but ends more prosaically with, "Where
is the party tonight?/To stand by a tiki bar with Christmas lights/I want something I
can't fnd/ we drive around dark tenements searching". Similarly the heroic fshing
photos of 'City Map' poke at deeper yearnings: "is it true you can wake up
somewhere new/ just shrug it off and transform?".
Often referred to as the artist's artist M G has been a much sought after
collaborator in the folk and Americana scenes, having signifcant tenures in the
Simone Felice Group, The Duke and the King, Emily Portman's Coracle Band, Blue
Rose Code, The Owl Service & Jon Boden's Remnant Kings.
Days of Shaking was produced by long time collaborator Andy Bell and features a
cast of fellow Hudson Records artists, Lucy Farrell (The Furrow Collective),
Harriet Bradshaw, Neil McSweeney, Helen Bell and Tom Lenthall, it was recorded
mostly at Red Kite studios in Wales.
CD Tracks: Days of Shaking / Quiet / 10 Habits of Successful People / Silver
Birches / Talk to Me of Water / James Mason / The Masterless Man / The Hotel
at Midnight / Fox Running / The Jaws of Nothing / City Map / Blonde Pine
LP Tracks: Days of Shaking / Quiet / 10 Habits of Successful People / Silver
Birches / Talk to Me of Water / James Mason / The Masterless Man / The Hotel
at Midnight / Fox Running / The Jaws of Nothing / City Map / Blonde Pine
LP Deep Purple coloured vinyl Tracks: Days of Shaking / Quiet / 10 Habits of
Successful People / Silver Birches / Talk to Me of Water / James Mason / The
Masterless Man / The Hotel at Midnight / Fox Running / The Jaws of Nothing /
City Map / Blonde Pine
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