NEW ALBUM 'DEAR
SATELLITE' OUT 8 APRIL 2016
Mull Historical Society (Colin MacIntyre) will
celebrate his birthday this year, on 8th April 2016, by releasing
his seventh album Dear Satellite through Xtra Mile Recordings. The album
was produced by Grammy award-winning Dom Morley, known for his work on Amy
Winehouse's Back To Black, as well as working with Adele, Grinderman and
Sting. He also produced Colin's first album on Xtra Mile Recordings, City
Awakenings released in 2012.
Listen
to the first taste of the album here - ‘The Ballad Of Ivor Punch’. The
song’s central character is also the main protagonist in Colin’s debut novel, The Letters
of Ivor Punch, published in hardback last year. It won the Edinburgh
International Book Festival's First Book award and will be released in
paperback edition the day before his birthday and the release of Dear
Satellite.
The album is ten tracks of floating, positive,
textually diverse pop songs. The spring morning brightness spread across
'Sleepy Hollow' and 'This Little Sister' may leap you into optimistic, slightly
cheerful abandon but 'Why Do They Go So Soon' wrings a little melancholy into
the warmth. The odd off-key whistling underpinning the rhyming acoustic pop of
'Bones' meshes the weird elements you'd have expected from MHS of old, while
the chiming synth-drive of 'The Ballad of Ivor Punch' reaches into Arcade Fire-esque indie rock. 'All the Love Remains' and
'Each Other' captures the sweet and serious strumming that MHS has made his
own, while the album closes with the reflective, sky-and-soul-searching
'Farewell to Finisterre', continuing the seeming interest of Xtra Mile
Recordings bands in space and star gazing.
Colin says:
“I couldn’t be happier with the album. It
is 10 songs, 36 minutes, and it feels like a perfect distillation of what I can
do, and my best work. I’ve really pushed myself as a songwriter and tried to
challenge myself to evolve sonically and capture a unique atmosphere within the
album. There is a lot of space in it, lushness, but also it feels punchy and
melodically pop. It is about home, getting home, leaving home, finding home,
whatever planet or street or field you live on. Whatever home means to you. I
think having a new music publishing deal with BMG/Xtra Mile Music has also made
me reach for higher. I’m so excited to see it enter the world. It looks bloody
good too!”
Tracklisting
01
Build Another Brick
02
Sleepy Hollow
03
This Little Sister
04
Why Do They Go So Soon
05
Bones
06
The Ballad of Ivor Punch
07
All the Love Remains
08
Each Other
09
Try To Be You
10
Farewell to Finisterre
This news follows a mammoth 2015 for Colin which
saw him celebrate 15 years since the release of his first single 'Barcode
Bypass' as well as his first 'Best of' collection on double vinyl for Record
Store Day which was celebrated with a sold-out tour performing his
Gold-selling MHS debut album ‘Loss’. With a tour in the Spring
supporting the album release still to be announced, 2016 is shaping up to be
another exciting year in Mull Historical Society’s extraordinary career.
Pre-order the album now here:
Xtra Mile Recordings: http://smarturl.it/DearSatellite-XMR
Twitter - @mullhistorical
posted by Press Counsel PR at
10:41
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