CRUELTY Presents:
Artist...: Epic45
Album....: Weathering
Label....: Make Mine Music
Size.....: 86,6 MB
Source...: CDDA
Playtime.: 53:18 min
Genre....: Indie
Release..: May-11-2011
Encoder..: LAME V3.98.4 -V0
Quality..: avgkbps 44,1Hz Joint-Stereo
TrackList:
01 07:08 People Say this Place is Slowl
02 06:38 The Village is Asleep
03 02:31 Evening Silhouettes
04 06:22 With Our Backs to the City
05 02:42 Summer Message
06 01:50 Afternoon, Shadowed
07 02:58 The Weather is Not Your Friend
08 03:05 These Walks Saved Us
09 02:34 Ghosts I Have Known
10 08:41 Weathering
11 08:49 Washed Up
Release Notes:
There is a long tradition of pastoral music capturing a quintessential Englishness, running from
Vaughan Williams through the English folk tradition to more recent names like Robert Wyatt and
Talk Talk. Further down this line you'll find Epic45.
Ten years after their formation in a small rural Midlands village, a decade in which the nucleus of Ben
Holton and Rob Glover have redefined and refined the band's sound, Epic45 release ôWeatheringö,
their new album and definitive statement. Epic45's last full-length album ôMay Your Heart Be The
Mapö in 2007 was described as ôthe best English summer album everö by Word Magazine, and was
later included in their albums of the decade. ôWeatheringö takes the same elements, but is a more
mature, reflective and subdued work with a far broader sonic palette.
The album mourns the loss of a way of life that Ben and Rob's generation were the last to witness.
Over the last twenty or thirty years, many English villages have become subsumed by the growth of
neighbouring towns and cities and their identity has been lost. It was the intention to convey a sense
of the ravaging effects of time on places, objects and lives, and to reflect these ideas of change and
decay through the textures and lyrical themes.
ôWeatheringö boasts an impressive set of guest singers and musicians. Stephen Jones of Babybird
lends his trademark falsetto to the beautiful ôWith Our Backs to the Cityö, a track co-written with
Jones after he contacted the band, impressed by a cover of his song ôLosing My Hairö that Epic45
had been performing live. The track is unquestionably one of the album's highlights. Rose Berlin, the
daughter of Curve's Dean Garcia, adds her delicate vocals to ôSummer Messageö, a duet she wrote and
performs with Ben. Meanwhile, regular contributor Antony Harding of July Skies, sings and plays
clarinet on the Durutti Column-esque ôGhosts I Have Knownö. Instrumental contributions come
from a wide cast including Richard Adams of The Declining Winter and Hood, who adds guitar and
hammered dulcimer, electronic duo The Remote Viewer, EL Heath and Brave Timbers/Declining
Winter violinist Sarah Kemp.