Fictionary

Dimple Discs is proud to announce “Fictionary”, the third album by Dragon Welding, the anagrammatical alias of Andrew “Andy" Golding, a multi-instrumentalist, programmer, videographer and all-round creative explorer from Essex, who started his musical path in the mid-80s as guitarist for C86 survivors The Wolfhounds. While that band’s singer Dave Callahan continues to release modern folk-rock classics, Andy’s focus hinges on a more electro-experimentalist tangent, combining pulsing synths, processed beats, shimmering guitar ambience and mischievous sonic textures. Recorded between 2020 and 2022, Andy notes...“For the previous two albums, I did a lot of ‘found sound’ recording and manipulations on mobile devices while commuting, but by early 2020, travelling on public transport had become a distant memory. I worked out how to use Logic Pro in a bit more detail and finished off most of the mobile phone tracks at home. I did some remote mixing sessions with Ant Chapman, which was a new experience, but most of the tracks I finished on my own”. An accomplished videographer who has produced videos for Jah Wobble, Cathal Coughlan, label mate Nick Haeffner and others, Andy has created accompanying video clips for several of the album’s key tracks, that will be premiered on key indie-music blogs and social media prior to release. Two singles will precede the album — “The Dark” (with vocals by Ant Chapman a.k.a. Collapsed Lung) and “Here Come The Rainbows”, both of which will find favour with internet radio shows, podcasters, and adventurous national voices like Gideon Coe and Stuart Maconie on 6Music, who have been huge supporters of previous Dragon Welding releases. For fans of Mogwai, Plaid, Mouse On Mars.