Goodbye Minnesota, by The Declining Winter (CD on Rusted Rail)

Description:	CD on Rusted Rail, Ltd repress in slightly different artwork edition of 200 copies	UK ORDERS OVER £50 SHIP FREE!
Format:	CD
Label:	Rusted Rail
Price:	£7.99
Catalogue number:	RR14
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Rating: ecstatic This record left our BRIAN D feeling ecstatic.

A long suffering customer of ours popped in yesterday, marveling at how we keep going & complementing us for our enthusiasm, even posting reviews in from the other side of the world. Well, this is only Armley! I live very near the towers, so near they block out my sunlight. That's when we get any. Funnily enough, the sun has just popped out it's fat, orange head for a minute whilst I stretch my head looking for "great verbage" to describe Pudsey's wonderful The Declining Winter. This for the uninitiated is Richard Vincent Adams from Hood and assorted cohorts. The older of the two brothers who proudly proclaims himself as a "Stricken office worker" I guess the meaning behind the title 'Goodbye Minnesota' and that helps understand the delicate, organic & wistful beauty behind these tingling downtempo grooves. A mingling of simple acoustic guitar codas, dub textures, star gazing ambient electronics that give you goose bumps, melancholic 1 note keyboard lines, sad, graceful drums & reserved, tender vocals. I reckon that we've got ourselves an altogether sensual, pure & quietly exhilarating album that will delight fans of (especially) mid period Hood & the legendary Bristol indie underground. Also, if The Occasional Keepers album from last week did you then you must get this! Includes help from his lil' bro Chris (track 6, a more upbeat & cerebral number could just be a classic Hood track!) and Manyfingers' Chris Coles on peerless backing duties. All dressed in a recycled house mounted with photo on Ireland's Rusted Rail recordings. -Brian Check the Myspaces out here http://www.myspace.com/thedecliningwinter http://www.myspace.com/rustedrail

What the label says:

The Declining Winter is the solo musical project of Richard Vincent Adams of Leeds, England, a co-founder of Hood.

“Goodbye Minnesota” is his debut album under this guise, following an acclaimed 7” on Misplaced Music and a sold out remix project on Moteer. Ranging from epic claustrophobia to rustic folk-dub explorations, with spectral atmospheres anchored to pastoral roots, “Goodbye Minnesota” delivers hypnotic melancholia via abstract hiphop, shoegaze, dub and post rock explorations. Along the way there’s also rain-drenched pop and globally warmed electronic folk.

These are ghostly songs filled with absence, longing and seasonally affected melodies - the sound of cassette tapes spilling out of the glovebox of a 1970's Datsun Sunny somewhere in the north of England, captured on Super 8 film. This record features contributions from Chris Adams (Hood, Bracken) and Chris Cole (Many Fingers, Matt Elliott) and is housed in a recycled card sleeve in keeping with the environmentally-concerned nature of the project.

The Declining Winter are now a fully fledged 5 piece live outfit and will be playing dates with Stars of the Lid in May and further shows throughout the spring and summer.

The first 100 copies will come with a free individually numbered and stamped postcard and a badge. This offer is exclusive to Norman Records and the Rusted Rail online store.

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