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Slumber

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Dive into the vivid electronic world of Bristol-based music collective Bearcraft and their brand new ethereal single Slumber.

“So many hooks that you instantly stop everything you are doing and prepare for the onslaught of brilliant electro” The 405

“You may find yourself captured and held in this sorcerer's fortress before you even know it.” Bearded Magazine

[19th June 2020] Bristol-based collective Bearcraft led by artist/producer Dicky Moore and artist/singer Sam Sally releases the beautifully strange and ethereal new single ‘Slumber’ today - along with the announcement of their forthcoming electronically charged LP, ‘Fabrefactions’, is set for release this September on independent label Australopithecine Records.

Blending elements of synthwave and alt-pop with dreamy, abstract lyricism, ‘Slumber’ offers a tantalizing glimpse into the world of Bearcraft and the album from which it is lifted. Eerie sonic tendrils whisper searchingly against a backdrop of ghostly, swirling synths as featured vocalist Sam Sally explores the realms of dreams in this intoxicating electronic lullaby.

Speaking about the track, Dicky said, “I had been playing with these glass-cold synths and trying to create a gently unsettling forest soundscape. Sam came over to improvise some vocals. Straight away she came out with this wispish, dark story, with a folksy melody, set in a forest and it was perfect. It sent shivers down my spine. I could see the dirt and the mud and feel the bark of the trees as she sang it. I knew straight we had a beautiful track.”

Fabrefactions is Bearcraft’s second album following the debut Yestreen. Over the album’s ten tracks, Fabrefactions moves upriver along the Thames, from Margate, through Leigh-on-Sea and into the capital of England. That journey is mapped out in gorgeous organic electronics, in overheard ghost stories and half-remembered urban myths. Here are tales of runaways and banshees, estuary witches, acid trips and seafront car-cruising, set to sounds that evoke everything from bankside industry to underground dancehalls and the ambient push and pull of the shoreline.

Fabrefactions was written whilst staring out the window of a council flat in Dalston
after a diagnosis of acute hearing loss; recorded in the corner of an artist’s studio in
London Fields before being mixed next to the motorway in Bristol (over a period of ten
years). Fabrefactions was recorded with Joe Reeves (Shit Disco, Age of Consent), mixed
by Ali Chant (Gruff Rhys, PJ Harvey, This Is The Kit) and mastered by Anthony Chapman
(Franz Ferdinand, Future of the Left, Klaxons); all music by Dicky Moore. All vocals by Dicky
and artist/musician Sam Sally.

lyrics

Whilst you were sleeping
We went out late through the forest
We found her all covered in the deepest soils, down, damaged
Could she sail?
My love, he's drowning
In a slumber
Deep down by the hour
Calming it over
Lie down lover, loved
But could she sail?
Covered the trousers,
Your trousers,
Head down
My love.

credits

released July 30, 2020
Music written and performed by Sam Sally and Dicky Moore
Mixed by Ali Chant
Mastered by Anthony Chapman

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Bearcraft Bristol, UK

" an accomplished, intense slab of dramatic electronic pop."

"Straight outta Dalston, Bearcraft reckon their genre is ‘Campfire Disco’ although ‘Honey’ is neither as carefree and jaunty as that description implies nor is it as painfully cool as one might expect from their postcode" Edna Guinan - Groove Loves Melody


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