dMh has shared his formidable cowl homage ‘Songs From The North’ in full.
Out now, the document is years within the making, and stems from a fleeting thought to recast ‘She’s Misplaced Management’ by Pleasure Division. That one-off session rapidly spiralling, with dMh musing on how a technology of Northern artists rose to encourage him.
New album ‘Songs From The North’ is the appropriately titled consequence. Shifting from post-punk to Britpop through sweeping synth phantasias, every observe is fastidiously chosen.
So, you’ll hear The Smiths reimagined, Jethro Tull spun in a brand new path, and Scottish heroes The Blue Nile reworked. Shifting as much as Oasis, ‘Songs From The North is fringed by a want to have fun the outsiders, the voices who helped re-shape British music.
The art work comes from Nick Park – of Wallace & Gromit fame – with dMh commenting…
The thought for this album got here while tinkering with a model of She’s Misplaced Management by the famously northern Pleasure Division, and having beforehand launched a few singles which had been covers of songs from different bands with connections to the northern reaches of the UK (Jethro Tull, Blackpool, and The Fall, Manchester), plus having recorded a few years earlier an unreleased model of ‘Come Collectively’ by 4 scousers, I realised I used to be presumably subconsciously working my approach to an album’s value of covers by northern bands, and so being a northerner myself (Preston) determined it might be enjoyable to really full the duty and discover a bunch extra northern songs to be subjected to various levels of mutilation.
Tune in now.
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