081: searows - martingale
If you listened to searows' debut album Guard Dog, then you already know what to expect from this one. If you didn't listen to Guard Dog, then carve some time out of your day to do so immediately, it's one of the finest lofi singer-songwriter album's of the last few years, haunting and pretty in equal measure.
The solo project of Alec Duckart, searows returns this week with a brand new standalone single, released as a warm-up to a long run of UK/EU shows that takes place next month (find the full run of dates below).
As plaintive and confessional as we've come to expect, new song .martindale' finds Duckart in suitably affecting voice, the immediacy of the emotive weight landing its grip on you from the outset, never relinquishing. Indeed, Duckart's ability to derive such a feeling of intense emotion from such basic tools of voice and melody remains as something quite remarkable, something inherently magical.
And this is full of magic once more, no matter the force of sadness that underpins it, no matter the shadow it comes buried within.
Live Dates:
Wed. 28 Aug. – Amsterdam, NL @ Tolhuistuin
Thu. 29 Aug. – Utrecht, NL @ EKKO
Fri. 30 Aug. – Vlieland, NL @ Into The Great Wide Open Festival
Sun. 1 Sep. – Brussels, BE @ Le Botanique
Tue 3. Sep. – Paris, FR @ La Maroquinerie, Paris
Thu. 5 Sep. – Bristol, UK @ Thekla
Fri. 6 Sep. – Manchester, UK @ Academy 3
Sat. 7 Sep. – Dublin, IE @ Button Factory
Mon. 9 Sep. – Glasgow, UK @ Oran Mor Auditorium
Tue. 10 Sep. – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club
Thu. 12 Sep. – London, UK @ Village Underground (SOLD OUT)
Fri. 13 Sep. – London, UK @ Village Underground
Sat. 14 Sep. – Brighton, UK @ Chalk
Mon. 16 Sep. – Cologne, DE @ Gebaüde 9
Tue. 17 Sep. – Berlin, DE @ Hole44
Wed. 18 Sep. – Hamburg, DE @ Reeperbahn Festival
Sat. 21 Sep. – Warsaw, PL @ Niebo
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