{"title":"Goldheart Assembly","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"wolves-and-thieves","title":"Wolves and Thieves","description":"\u003cp\u003egoldheart assembly release their debut album 'wolves and thieves' on fierce panda records. and you can't say it hasn't been a long time a' coming: since forming at the close of 2008 the sextet have spent much of their spare time carefully nurturing an ebullient live fanbase via the bbc introducing stages at glastonbury and reading \/ leeds and ravishingly received performances at latitude, the camden crawl, swn and in the city, not to mention a mini-tour with the low anthem and a sold out borderline in october. all this off the back of little more than one limited 7\" single release, 'so long st christopher' on heron recordings, and the sort of seemingly carefree approach to live performances where the charm comes first and the tunes impact later. fittingly then 'wolves and thieves' was recorded by the band themselves in a makeshift studio amongst the old steam engines at the forncett industrial steam museum in norfolk in the middle of 2009. it was then finished and mixed with laurie latham (echo and the bunnymen, squeeze, ian dury and the blockheads) at helicon mountain studios in greenwich. the key to goldheart assembly could well be that they are music lovers first and wannabe rock stars second. this means that they can be playful, even knockabout in their approach to live shows but in the studio there is fearsomely disciplined side which pays minute attention to the details of the drum sound, the hum of the harmonies...the near-invisible things that the passionate musician dwells upon. and this means that the likes of 'hope hung high', 'the last decade' and lead-off single 'king of rome' can sound epic without being pompous, poppy without sounding trashy and blindingly cool with apparently very little effort. the end result is a timeless-sounding but extremely modern rock record which combines that charm and those massed harmonies with a mischievous sense of noise and a beguiling way with a massive lighter-waving chorus.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50471059325259,"sku":"322784","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/8b390226-bdf3-4271-8305-81147b8cbf9b_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727389960"},{"product_id":"long-distance-song-effects","title":"Long Distance Song Effects","description":"\u003cp\u003eNamed after a Guided by Voices song, Goldheart Assembly's music is known for it's pastoral soundscapes and rich harmony led songs, but, that that is too simple to be true. Recorded in Luzern, Switzerland, 'Long Distance Song Effects' was shaped over a period of two years. Back and forth the band went from London to Luzern, desperate, aiming to suck at least some of the marrow from an otherwise seemingly senseless existence. With the curiosity of what could be harvested in this global tax haven neverland, Goldheart Assembly discovered their raison d'etre and plowed into the studio with a Swiss musician \/ producer Tobi Gmur, a man with a studio and little else. Having met Gmur on a European tour Goldheart Assembly made full use of his offer to make the studio available to them, modestly furnished though it was, it nonetheless became a sanctuary of supportive late night sessions and mutually expressed ideas. Back in London after having recorded 25 tracks, and argued incessantly over running orders and the prudence of releasing a double album, recording was concluded with the addition of strings, horns and other high-brow musical fluff. Whilst not wishing to appear ungrateful, this one does not sound like the British Fleet Foxes (lazy Luke says to someone equally savvy and enlightened). 'Long Distance Sing Effects' does perhaps sound like The Beatles, Wilco maybe, with a helping of Scott Walker, and hold your nose, a shading of Cluster and NEU! Or that's the way we see it. Among the songs included are combative complaints of 'nu-folk' comparisons (Billy in the Lowground), Spector-esque epics (Sad Sad Stage, Behind this Lonely Sun), vaudeville whimsy (Stephanie and the Ferris Wheel), existential mumberlings (Linnaeus), psychedelic pop (Into Desperate Arms, Transit) and plaintive ballads of regret (Harvest in the Snow) and obsession (Bird on a Chain). You could say the resultant album 'Long Distance Song Effects' fuses a disparate array of influences, both ambitiously lush and elegantly understated, a sprawling yet cohesive whole. 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