Littoral States is the latest album from brothers Mik and Rich Hanscomb, a.k .a. JUNKBOY, which will be given a limited lathe cut vinyl release on February 9th via Wayside and Woodland Recordings. In his album review, Thomas Blake describes how they have “skirted the boundaries of folk, ambient, dream pop, post-rock and Ghost Box-style hauntology in varying degrees and, in recent years, have alchemised this tendency into something that is more definitively tied up with landscapes and the feelings they evoke.” He goes on to describe Littoral States as an engulfing and satisfying half-hour – melodic, intelligent, haunting music that slips in and out of genres but…their most place-centred album yet, and paradoxically their most ambiguous, dealing simultaneously with the Sussex coast and with universal feelings of grief and renewal.
Among the vocal tracks are pastoral instrumentals, Landlocked being one of them, which features in the promotional video below.
“…tweets and corvid croaks filter through a robust concoction of strummed and plucked guitars, while strings and organ give the piece a feeling of stateliness…”
Rich shares:
“The promo for the vinyl release was pieced together by Ben Holton from Wayside & Woodland Recordings. Ben used a variety of phone camera footage I’d taken over last summer. The idea was to capture some of the tranquility and splendor of living on the Sussex coast but also the mundanity and sublime drabness of life commuting between Seaford, Newhaven and Brighton. We celebrate all facets of it – our album Littoral State seeks to elevate the everyday and venerate the beautiful rituals of normalcy, the gallant ongoingness of life”.
The lathe cut, limited vinyl edition of Littoral States will be released on February 9th via Wayside & Woodland Recordings.
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