Mike Lindsay releases debut solo album 'supershapes volume 1' via Moshi Moshi Records
Mike Lindsay releases debut solo album 'supershapes volume 1'
Out now via Moshi Moshi Records
Stream album here
– Watch new video for "two blues" ft. Anna B Savage HERE –
Mike Lindsay celebrates the album release tonight (14 June) with an in-store at Rough Trade East and tomorrow night (15 June) @ WhereElse? in Margate
September tour dates include London’s ICA - on sale now HERE
STREAM, 'supershapes volume 1':
https://lnk.to/supershapesvolume1
VIDEOS / SINGLES:
"two blues"
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"pretender to surrender"
"table"
"lie down"
VINYL, 'supershapes volume 1':
https://bio.to/mikelindsay
“Marrying the synthetic and organic in a warm, appealing way.”
Brooklyn Vegan
“Emphatic…oozes rhythmic intricacy and jazz-tinged textures”
Wonderland Magazine
“Breathy woodwind and soft saxophones weave through the analogue polyrhythmic shapes”
The Line Of Best Fit
“Best Songs of The Week”
Under The Radar
“…many layers of instrumentation and vocals... it’s like being in your living room but suddenly it’s as if the floor has become the wall, the coffee table is on the ceiling and someone is calling you from a basement you didn’t know you had”
Beats Per Minute
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(14 June) Acclaimed Margate-based producer and artist Mike Lindsay releases his eagerly anticipated debut solo album 'supershapes volume 1' today via Moshi Moshi Records.
One half of LUMP with Laura Marling and co-founder of pioneering UK acid folktronica band Tunng, elsewhere Mike Lindsay is also known for producing Speech Debelle's Mercury Music prize winning album 'Speech Therapy', along with his work with Jon Hopkins, DuBlonde, Songhoy Blues and more recent production for Dana Gavanski, Meadow Meadow and William Doyle.
Lindsay's debut album is the first instalment in a series of solo records that will explore “the miraculous in the mundane”, with 'supershapes volume 1' looking widely at “everyday domestic objects, the daily rituals that shape us, heavily focusing on the majestic in the domestic”.
At first, Mike Lindsay had thought 'supershapes volume 1' would be purely instrumental album. As time went on though, Lindsay felt the songs were still missing a voice, as he explained: "The more the songs developed as instrumentals, the more I could imagine the tones of Anna B Savage. I had already worked with Anna on her album in|FLUX which was a wonderful experience. She is a true poet of the everyday emotions. Over four or five days together in my new studio in Margate, the supershapes started to come alive!”
On collaborating with Mike Lindsay on 'supershapes volume 1', Anna B Savage said:
"Working with Mike on his supershapes project will forever be one of my favourite endeavours. Any excuse to work with him more was gonna be leapt on by me, and in particular to think he wanted me to work on something is just too much for my little heart to handle. We had (and have) so much fun. What more could you want."
Then Lindsay would bring in multi-instrumentalist Ross Blake, adding breathy woodwind and soft saxophones which weaved through the analogue polyrhythmic shapes, along with saxophonist Robert Stillman (of The Smile's live band). “I had just worked with Robert on the Nick Drake cover of 'Saturday Sun' I did with Guy Garvey,” Lindsay recalls. “Robert is an incredible saxophone player and musician. He has this beautiful thick and warm wild tone. I asked him to come in for a couple of days to bring his magic to the shapes.”
Others came on board too, including drummer Adam Betts, who Lindsay had seen play as part of Three Trapped Tigers, Squarepusher’s Shobaleader One, and his own Colossal Squid solo drum show in Margate. “I thought perhaps he could bring something to the shapes, which of course he did, weaving in and out of the sampled objects.”
Lindsay built the foundation of 'supershapes volume 1' at his 120-year-old dining table. Inspired by his wife Lily’s MA studies in fine art, Lindsay mulled over the idea that objects have memories and their own consciousness.
Other influences included: “contemporary productions like Foodman’s ‘Yasuragi Land’, a Japanese experimental manic scatter sample electronica artist who blows my mind. Kate NV: I love her bass sounds and twisted melodic rhythms. Also, I was listening to Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s ‘Keyboard Fantasies’” Lindsay continues.
“This record is one that I’m very proud of,” he concludes. “I hope that people are immersed by the record and feel the journey. I hope that they give their own table some love.”
Mike Lindsay's new solo album 'supershapes volume 1' is out now, released 14th June via Moshi Moshi Records. Mike Lindsay will tour the album this September with live vocals from Anna B Savage, dates below. Mike plays an in-store tonight at Rough Trade East in London and tomorrow night in his hometown of Margate at WhereElse?
'supershapes volume 1' track list
1. lie down
2. ruins in reverse
3. table
4. pretender to surrender
5. kachumber
6. two blues
7. it's all for you
8. do what
9. content
10. i was the thief
LIVE DATES
14th June – Rough Trade East, London (In-store)
15th June – WhereElse?, Margate (In-store)
10th September – South Street Arts, Reading
11th September – Strange Brew, Bristol
12th September – Belgrave Music Hall, Leeds
13th September – Mono, Glasgow
15th September – ICA, London
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