Fossil Scale Georgia Ruth SKU: DIV056LP Barcode: 5060187000496 20.00 £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Diverse Records Released Date: 31st January 2017 Buying Format: 180g 1LP Gatefold Sleeve Includes Download Code Fossil Scale quantity Add to basket Reserve Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Welsh singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Georgia Ruth has announced a new album Fossil Scale, due for release on CD October 7, 2016 via Navigator Records with the vinyl to follow in early December on Diverse Records. The record is the follow up to 2013’s Welsh Music Prize winning Week Of Pines – a feat Georgia never contemplated she’d achieve for her critically acclaimed, bilingual debut album. The record prompted the Guardian to tip her as ‘One of the British folk discoveries of the year’, with Georgia going on to be twice nominated in the 2014 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, alongside radio support across Radio 1 and 6Music. UK live dates to support the release of Fossil Scale are expected to be announced shortly. Fossil Scale was written in Caernarfon, a town in North Wales defined by its space and tranquil landscape that Georgia, at the time, called home. The ancient surroundings of the town– its body of water and the neighbouring Snowdonia mountains – came to exert as strong a bearing on Fossil Scale as the hours of Beck, Radiohead and Bowie albums that tracked this writing period. Though it wasn’t until Georgia stumbled upon a news article about a mysterious ‘mutant-fish’ – with reptilian head & fossilised scales- discovered by Russian fishermen, that she began to quantify her own life in relation to her immutable surroundings. This fish became something of a representation of those constants, as Georgia began to explore the detachment from them that modern life had brought about. Switching out her previous go-to writing tool- the harp- for a piano in search of a more expansive yet ambient sound, Georgia headed into the familiar setting of Snowdonia’s Bryn Derwen Studio in January 2015, to lay down the foundations of what would become Fossil Scale. When the sale of the studio just 5 days into recording threw plans awry, recording time was then split between studios in London and Cardiff – in the case of the latter, at friends and collaborators Manic Street Preachers’ Faster Studios (Georgia sung on ‘Divine Youth’, a track that featured on the Manics’ Futurology album). The album was finally pieced together in Mwnci Studios, co-produced with Italian producer Marta Salogni (Phil Selway, Eliot Sumner) and long-time collaborator David Wrench (Caribou, Bat For Lashes) some 11 months after those initial sessions began. During the year long period of recording, Georgia herself also relocated from Caernarfon to Cardiff- a move she considers pivotal to the album’s development, enabling her to further explore themes of detachment as she moved and lived around the world’s quiet constants. The comparative clamour of city life prompted those songs written in the quiet of Caernarfon to shed skin and inhabit a different world, mirroring Georgia’s own move. Thus, Fossil Scale is a marked progression in song-writing and style, driven heavily by keys, synths, guitars and layered recorders, alongside an Indian stringed instrument called the sarangi. The latter came about following an introduction to Hindustani classical music during time spent on The British Council’s ‘Folk Nations’ project in Kolkata, where Georgia met James Yorkston-collaborator Suhail Yusuf Khan, who fittingly went on to play the instrument on Fossil Scale. In particular, tracks like the brass-capped ‘Good Milk’ and the album’s playful title track bear the stunning effects of this augmented instrumentation and layering, marking an adept departure from the more traditional folk foundations of ‘Grand Tour’, and the songs which comprised Week of Pines. Georgia currently still finds time to present regularly for the BBC’s Welsh-speaking radio arm BBC Cymru, where the selections during her 3 hour weekly programme champion not only the camaraderie felt between Welsh musicians, but the language itself. It’s little surprise then, that Fossil Scale is imbued with both- Georgia dips into her native Welsh on a sparsely tender cover of Meic Stevens’ ‘Sylvia’, whilst school-friend Meilyr Jones sings on the title track, ‘The Doldrums’ and ‘When I Was Blue’. Ultimately, whilst Fossil Scale is a homage to the world’s, and life’s inscrutable constants, it is more pertinently a snapshot which captures Georgia Ruth as a young artist in unmistakeable transition. Praise for Georgia Ruth’s Week Of Pines: “A dazzling debut, rich with sweet pain and joy” The Independent **** “Her own debut is a wonder, full of longing and melody” MOJO **** “It could have been made in 1968, in the loveliest possible way” Indy on Sunday **** “One of the British folk discoveries of the year” (The Guardian) “Heaven.” (Lauren Laverne, 6Music) Artist Georgia Ruth Genre Rock And Pop Label Diverse Records Buying Options 180g 1LP Gatefold Sleeve Includes Download Code Format 180g , 1LP , Gatefold Sleeve , Includes Download Code Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings 01 The Doldrums 02 Cloudbroke 03 Fossil Scale 04 Grand Tour 05 When I Was Blue 06 The Bodies 07 Ice Age 08 Mas 09 Sylvia 10 Supermoon 11 Good Milk 12 China Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Georgia Ruth View Product Quick View Georgia Ruth Cool Head Folk | Bubblewrap Records | 2LP Released 21st June 2024 £26.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Georgia Ruth Cool Head 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