Matthew Sawyer & The Ghosts - How Snakes Eat

Fire are psyched to releasing Mathew Sawyer's new album "How Snakes Eat". The enigmatic Mathew Sawyer is a man with many facets. He is an internationally respected visual artist, he played drums for the influential post-punk band the Television Personalities, and he is the lead singer and songwriter with his own musical collective, Mathew Sawyer And The Ghosts. “Yeah. I love this record.” Everett True on Matthew Sawyer and the Ghosts’ previous album ‘Blue Blood Ghosts’. After the cult success of ‘Blue Blood Birds’ in 2008, Sawyer and his Ghosts are back again with their debut for Fire Records, eleven new songs and as he laments on ‘The Revenge Of The Extra From Zulu’: “I tore a map into two, to make a jigsaw for you/ showed the way to my heart… you fucked the directions.” But this is no indie schmindie slab of tweecore. ‘Mynah Bird’s Call’ is a cello heavy hymn with overtones of Ennio Morricone arranging for The Pastels. ‘Diamond’ summons up the missing spirit of Lawrence from Felt to add vocals to something that is part herky jerky new wave and part English folk. And ‘She The Farey Tree’ with its pots and pans rhythm section and clanking backwards reel presents Sawyer as an English Tom Waits. Albeit an English Tom Waits with an iron deficiency. But in the contours, peaks and troughs of ‘How To Eat Snakes’ there is real, earthy beauty. Give yourself up to the spectral charms of Matthew Sawyer and the Ghosts. Press looking strong on this album, reviews confirmed in Mojo, Uncut, Rocksound, Stool Pigeon, Artrocker, NME, Clash, Drowned in Sound, Q, Record Collector, Organ. Broadsheets likely but TBC at this stage.

Track listing : 1. Myna Bird Calls 2. Diamonds 3. Revenge Of The Extra From Zulu 4.She, the Farry tree 5.The Bully Died 6. There Is No Royal Road 7. To Pour Like English Taps 8. Caroline 9. Chicory 10. Blue Birds Blood 11. About A Whale Song

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