One of the highlights of seeing the Villagers play live in Oxford about 18 months ago was the final song of the set, a poignant and heartbreaking song called Cecelia Her Selfhood. It turns out it has long been a live favourite, but only recently has it been finally recorded in the studio and an accompanying video made. Although we are a little late with it, we wanted to post it because the video (which is more of a short film) is truly superb. It even lives up to the press release blurb: “The film charts the development of a young man as he navigates his way through an impressionistic landscape in search of an elusive monster which is intent on destroying his childhood home”
And so it does – in brilliant animation which provides the perfect visuals for the song.
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Main image courtesy of Jon Mackay photography.
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The last Friday of 2011. And so begins a slow walk to the end of another year.
Back in March we 
Redanda is a full-on, fully greased up member of the garage rock brotherhood. This, of course, is a very good thing indeed as far as we’re concerned.
Had enough of the rellies already? Sick of turkey? Fed up with Granddad hogging the TV remote and having Only Fools & Horses re-runs on at full volume?
Meryll is the project of Andrew Hernandez (who is also the touring sound engineer for Balmorhea).
Shortly before Christmas The Lower 48 released their new album Where All Maps End, a beautifully judged album of warm, organic folk that joyfully takes its main influences from the 1960s.
