A more uplifting and optimistic album than Modern Hinterland’s predecessor, a call to not waste life…to escape your metaphorical personal diving bell and breathe in the air. Accept the gift with open arms.
Listen to ‘California (August 16th 1998)’, the new single from Modern Hinterland, from their new album ‘Diving Bell’ out in January 2021. Don’t miss their live stream show this month.
Watch Modern Hinterland performing ‘Right Here In My Heart’ as a part of a BBC Introducing Live Session. It’s taken from their new album ‘The Longest Part of The Night’.
Watch the final in a series of acoustic sessions from Modern Hinterland featuring music from their latest album The Longest Part of the Night – here they are performing a stripped back version of Just Be Sitting With You.
Watch the second in a series of acoustic sessions from Modern Hinterland featuring music from their latest album The Longest Part of the Night – here they are performing a stripped back version of I’m Not One of the Free.
Watch the first in a series three new acoustic sessions from Modern Hinterland featuring music from their latest album – We stripped them right back to basics and built up new versions using a few of the acoustic instruments we had kicking around our flats.
Modern Hinterland return with The Longest Part of the Night, delving into the heart of divided modern Britain, fraught with anxiety and uncertainty and look at how this impacts on people’s relationships.
Watch Modern Hinterland’s new video for ‘The Girl Just South of Hackney’, part of which was filmed at The George and Vulture in Hoxton. They play the Servant Jazz Quarters on Wednesday 7th November 2018.
While the album may, as a whole, be hung with the shadows of adult life, there’s something here about the blissful innocence of childhood and a future yet unmapped.
Named after “a massive fairground that appears on Newcastle Town Moor every summer”, listen to Modern Hinterland’s lead single ‘Take You To The Hoppings (To Do Wrong)’, from their forthcoming album which takes its name from the fair.
