Welcome Strangers – Indies Only Modern Studies SKU: FIRELP524X Barcode: 809236152435 23.00 £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Fire Records Released Date: 18th May 2018 Buying Format: 180g 1LP Gatefold Sleeve Includes Download Code Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info ‘Welcome Strangers’ is the second record by feral pop outliers Modern Studies. Elegiac and haunted, life-giving and triumphant, this beguiling return digs deep into landscapes both real and imagined, internal and external, in a work that might perhaps best be described as “kosmiche choral” or, if we’re pushing it “arts-und-crafts-werk”. Or, put simply, glorious pop music. It is an elemental and often spectral world of contrasting tones and hues that is found within ‘Welcome Strangers’, one whose lyrical vocabulary is of loss, light, air, sun, growth; of spires, seeds and phosphene dreams. Here is the Britain of visionaries such as Kate Bush, Broadcast or PJ Harvey, a nation of dark magic, confict, celebration and confusion, all at the same time. Witness the incandescent chamber-pop of ‘Get Back Down’: underpinned by complex jazz rhythms, and string and brass ?ourishes, it manages to be both understated and epic as it explores a similar sonic terrain to Wild Beasts. Or there’s ‘Horns And Trumpets’, a haunting musical perambulation that burrows deep into Britain, a warm-hued hymn for future generations, and ‘Let Idle Hands’, which abandons restraint halfway through and, in a moment of musical epiphany, runs joyously to the horizon. Meanwhile on ‘Phosphene Dream’ the honeyed harmonies of Emily Scott and Rob St. John wrap themselves around each other like Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood had they holidayed in draughty Glasgow tenements. Or perhaps – as on ‘Disco’ – they come closer to Kylie and Nick Cave. “It’s an ever changing thing – an organism,” explains principle songwriter Emily of Modern Studies’ collaborative creative process, “there is space for each of the band to experiment.” Shared band listening habits include Yamasuki, Van Dyke Parks, Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass, Matthew E White, Basil Kirchin, and Nanci Griffith. Working at Pete’s Pumpkinfield studio in rural Perthshire through 2017, the band used a Creative Scotland grant to hire a chamber orchestra and a remote village hall to record them in. Contributors include sisters, wives, toddlers, freeform saxophonists and The Pumpkinseeds, an ensemble featuring violins, violas, cellos, trombones and vocals, brought together to play Pete and Emily’s collaborative string, brass and vocal arrangements. Truly, a family affair. As well as further ?eshing out the sound with analogue synths, tube organs, drum machines and mellotrons, some inventive techniques were deployed – a decayed tape loop of Emily’s vocals used to create the stuttering rhythm in Mud and Flame for example, or prepared guitars recurring as percussion and drones. Now they proudly present ‘Welcome Strangers’, an album of modernist pop weirdness for the 21st century, a bricolage where classicism meets experimentalism and repeated listening unearths new stories for this contemporary age. More elaborate and expansive than its predecessor, this is music as cartography, Modern Studies mapping their own multi-dimensional internal world. ‘Welcome Strangers’. Welcome all. Modern Studies are: Emily Scott (vocals, organs, piano, double bass). Rob St. John (vocals, guitars, synths, harmonium, tape loops). Pete Harvey (cello, bass, piano). Joe Smillie (drums, mellotron, vocals). Artist Modern Studies Genre Rock And Pop Label Fire Records Buying Options 180g 1LP Gatefold Sleeve Includes Download Code Format 180g , 1LP , Gatefold Sleeve , Includes Download Code Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings 1 Get Back Down 2 Disco 3 Mud and Flame 4 Let Idle Hands 5 It's Winter 6 Young Sun 7 Horns and Trumpets 8 Fast As Flows 9 The House 10 Phosphene Dream Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Modern Studies and more from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View Modern Studies We Are There Rock And Pop | Fire Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 18th February 2022 £20.00 - £21.00 Select options Modern Studies We Are There £20.00 - £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Fire Records Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 18th February 2022 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Modern Studies The Weight of the Sun Rock And Pop | Fire Records | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 8th May 2020 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Modern Studies The Weight of the Sun £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Fire Records SKU: FIRELP598 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 8th May 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Modern Studies Welcome Strangers Rock And Pop | Fire Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 18th May 2018 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Modern Studies Welcome Strangers £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Fire Records SKU: FIRELP524 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 18th May 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Modern Studies Swell To Great Rock And Pop | Fire Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 27th October 2017 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Modern Studies Swell To Great £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Fire Records SKU: FIRELP502X Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 27th October 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Doobie Brothers, The The Captain & Me Rock And Pop | Friday Music | 180g, 2LP Released 9th February 2012 £40.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Doobie Brothers, The The Captain & Me £40.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Friday Music SKU: FRM9005 Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 9th February 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Hall and Oates Private Eyes Rock And Pop | Mobile Fidelity | 180g, 1LP Released 22nd January 2014 £50.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Hall and Oates Private Eyes £50.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Mobile Fidelity SKU: MFSL1412 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 22nd January 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Albert Hammond Jr. Melodies on Hiatus Rock And Pop | Red Bull Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 23rd June 2023 £23.00 Select options Albert Hammond Jr. Melodies on Hiatus £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Red Bull Records Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 23rd June 2023 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Undertones, The Hypnotised [Red Colour Vinyl] Rock And Pop | BMG | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 19th May 2023 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Undertones, The Hypnotised [Red Colour Vinyl] £25.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: BMG SKU: 4050538863291 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 19th May 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Sandra Nkaké Tangerine Moon Wishes Rock And Pop | Jazz Village | 2LP Released 15th September 2017 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sandra Nkaké Tangerine Moon Wishes £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Jazz Village SKU: JV3357014445 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 15th September 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Sea Girls Open Up Your Head Rock And Pop | Polydor | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 14th August 2020 £16.00 - 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