Available from 3rd September 2012 on cd, download and limited edition glitter vinyl, Heavenly Recordings are delighted to announce the release of ‘Into The Diamond Sun’, the long-awaited debut from Stealing Sheep.
The album when purchased from an independent retailer also comes with a bonus ‘The Melting Mountain Mix’ cd featuring tracks the band were listening to when recording.
Check below for full track listing.
You can pre-order the album from the following sites:
Rough Trade (the first 200 copies are signed)
http://www.roughtrade.com/site/shop_detail.lasso?search_type=sku&sku=352979
Play.com where the album comes with an exclusive badge back
http://www.play.com/Music/CD/4-/33367378/0/Into-The-Diamond-Sun/ListingDetails.html
Recorded at Mello Studios by Fred Ruddick and Sam Crombie, Stealing Sheep’s debut album proper is an Olympian leap forward, so much so that at points the record sounds like it’s arrived from its own private universe. Whereas on one track – White Lies — the group could be the much-missed Broadcast closing the main stage of the Green Man festival, on another they sound not a million miles from a properly wigged out Go Go’s (Genevieve). Elsewhere, ghostly piano codas (Bear Tracks) brush up against galeophobic warnings about the perils of the seaside (Shark Song).
Into the Diamond Sun is a glimmering, shimmering work, where Rebecca, Emily and Lucy’s unique visions of music warp into a singular whole. It’s also an exceptional addition to Liverpool’s celebrated lineage of unconventional art and music.
Summer live dates;
Sunday 1 July — CLITHEROE — The Beat Herder
Tuesday 3 July — HEBDEN BRIDGE — Hebden Bridge Arts Festival
Friday 13 July — CHELTENHAM — 2000 Trees Festival
Saturday 14 July — LIVERPOOL — Kazimier Summer Garden Party (Headline)
Friday 20 July — CORNWALL — Port Elliot Festival
Sunday 22 July — ABBOTS RIPTON — Secret Garden Party
Saturday 4 August — HERTFORDSHIRE — Standon Calling
Friday 10 August — LYMINGTON — Kneedeep Festival
Friday 17 August — GLANUSK — Greenman Festival
Saturday 1 September — LONDON — Rough Trade East (Instore album launch)
Saturday 1 September — KENT — In The Woods Festival
Saturday 8 September — ISLE OF WIGHT – Bestival
Saturday 15 September — PORTMERION — Festival No.6
Tracklisting:
1. The Garden
2. Shut Eye
3. Rearrange
4. White Lies
5. Genevieve
6. Circles
7. Gold
8. Shark Song
9. Liven Up
10. Tangled up in Stars
11. Bear Tracks
+ bonus cd available on pre order from all good Independent stores:
The Melting Mountain Mix.
1.Vernon Elliot (The Clangers Sound Track) – intro and Dialogue
2.Bjork (The Moumins Film) – The Comet Song
3.The Dirty Projectors – Stillness is the move
4.Coco Rosie – Brazilian Sun
5.Broadcast – Minus Three
6.Snoop Dogg – Drop it like it’s hot
7.Love – Orange Skies
8.Captain Beefheart – Blue Million Miles
9.Philip Glass – Koyannisquatsu
10.Can – Sing Swan Song
11.Ween – The Mollusk
12.Thurl Ravenscroft – That’s What Friends Are For (The Vulture Song)
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