{"title":"Moundabout","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoundabout is an accomplished artist with a unique sound that blends elements of rock, folk, and indie pop. With a career spanning over a decade, Moundabout has released several critically acclaimed albums and has gained a dedicated fanbase worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKnown for their introspective lyrics and captivating melodies, Moundabout's music resonates with listeners on a deep emotional level. Their songs often explore themes of love, loss, and self-discovery, creating an intimate connection between the artist and their audience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith their soulful vocals and masterful guitar skills, Moundabout delivers powerful live performances that leave audiences wanting more. Whether performing in small intimate venues or on large festival stages, Moundabout's energy and passion shine through in every show.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"flowers-rot-bring-me-stones","title":"Flowers Rot, Bring Me Stones","description":"\u003cp\u003eMoundabout is the new folk project of Paddy Shine of Gnod, recorded with Phil Masterson in Ireland, but the words ‘new’ and ‘folk’ need to be treated with care here. Listening to \u003ci\u003eFlowers Rot, Bring Me Stones \u003c\/i\u003eis like entering a trance state while staring at one of the Knowth spiral carvings. Like following a ridged epidermal loop inwards, tracing the spiral of an ammonite towards the centre or peeling back the layers of an onion, immersion in this great album sees you travelling both temporally backwards and spatially inwards simultaneously. The listener is invited to see folk – orally transmitted music often concerning national identity and culture played on traditional instruments – as a glowing helix of a continuum stretching way back beyond the revival of the 1950s and 1960s to an eternal vibrancy that predates classical antiquity and Irish civilisation itself.As the album moves the listener, they are taken on a geographical and geological journey as well as psychological and spiritual, traveling inwards from the coast (‘The Sea’), as well as down beneath the strata (“How many bog bodies are waiting to be found?”) And when you have been primed, they take you all the way back to commune with older gods on the album’s epic centrepiece, ‘Dick Dalys Dance’, creating the kind of prehistoric drones and trance-inducing rhythms that the echoing, celestially aligned corridors of the Brú na Bóinne were built to amplify. This is not new music but the deep sensations it provokes will be new to most listeners.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Brown | LP","offer_id":50463148605771,"sku":"1147391","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/9188611e-f9bc-42c3-b75e-4ea05c260bc6_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727262174"},{"product_id":"an-cnoc-mor","title":"An Cnoc Mr","description":"\u003cp\u003eMoundabout’s glorious second long player is named after Cnoc Mór na nGaibhlte (or The Big Hill Of The Galtees) an imposing sandstone and shale peak in Munster, from which vantage point the horizon retreats to impossible-seeming distances. Paddy Shine, of psychedelic powerhouse GNOD, and Phil Masterson, of cult groups Los Langeros, Damp Howl and Bisect, chose this as base camp for their latest expedition into a new form of psychedelic Irish folk music. Getting lost in liminal zones, at thresholds, where boundaries merge is key to the Moundabout sound. The Galtees is an Irish mountain range where the counties Tipperary, Cork and Limerick amalgamate, Shine adds: “We seem to have found ourselves recording and finishing albums in places where the boundaries have become blurry.” The set up of Shine on acoustic guitar, Masterson on electric guitar, both on vocals and sparse electronic accompaniment from antique Hammond drum machine Shine found in his auntie’s attic and old analogue synth, plus field recordings, remains the same as their debut but this time the pair push further out on tracks such as ‘Step In Out Of That’ which calls to mind Egypt-based free psych trio The Dwarfs Of East Agouza and reaches its apogee on the glorious, sunburst of New Weird Éirana ‘Instinct, Eye And Mind’ which treads in the footsteps of Michael Chapman at his most ragged and echoes the borderless fourth world guitar peregrinations of Mike Cooper. If the voyage that Flowers Rot took us on was one out of modernity into a vibrant megalithic antiquity, it feels like An Cnoc Mór is taking us even further back. Masterson says: “These hills were hills long before homo sapiens set foot on them, gave them names and stories and insulted them with egotistic concepts such as ‘conquering them’.” The pair agree that getting out into the environment is an essential ingredient in the Moundabout process. Moundabout has always been about getting out in the surroundings, hiking, swimming, chatting and experimenting with certain substances. An Cnoc Mór was recorded with all those influences… just minus the substances.” Sun, snow, hail and wind, there was no choice but just to be out in it \u0026amp; be inspired. “\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Clear LP","offer_id":50508884181323,"sku":"2030012","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/An_Cnoc_M_C3_B3r_60f2baf3_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727862303"},{"product_id":"goat-skull-table-na","title":"Goat Skull Table","description":"\u003cp\u003eRocket Recordings’ new Black Hole Series is a place where the unorthodox, otherworldly and esoteric can flourish, and there could be no more fitting first release for it than the most powerful metaphysical travelogue yet from Moundabout. Journeying still further into and beyond the landscapes from which this duo have unearthed inspiration, ‘Goat Skull Table’ is a transmission to give flight to spectral visions and include trance-states in abundance.The vibrations and manifestations of the duo of Paddy Shine(GNOD) and Phil Langero (Los Langeros, Damp Howl, Bisect) has always resonated within a very specific sense of place, transcending linear narratives and astral planes in a quest to unite timeless spirits with inner space. This third release for Rocket Recordings sees them colluding with the landscape of their surroundings, transcending linear narratives and astral planes in a quest to unite timeless spirits with inner space.The title track marks a focal point here; a Shamanic rite on which Langero’s charismatically charged mantras collude with an audial landscape somewhere on the map between the abstract spell-casting of Nurse With Wound and the druidic gnosticism of Julian Cope. This is Moundabout at their darkest and most ritualistic. Elsewhere, the hypnotic repetition of the twin ten-minute extrapolations ‘Blood On My Blanket’ and ‘Wagon’, and the potent incantatory chants of ‘Am I Not’ and ‘Brave New World’ glow with a rugged and charged dynamism redolent of the Swedish Psychedelia of Träd, Gräs \u0026amp; Stenar, uniting a minimal aesthetic with maximal impact. Dauntless, feverish, and reaching new heights of primal intensity ’Goat Skull Table’ is a formidable field guide to the earthen and other\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":51527173177675,"sku":"R5737-8326","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/208526-moundabout-goat-skull-table.jpg?v=1742977991"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_dd462724_thumbnail_4096_2d052e02-fd8a-4ef0-86ef-e9ee8a6e4ff4.jpg?v=1727262154","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/moundabout.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}