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Led by enigmatic Fyfe Dangerfield, UK four piece Guillemots are thrilled to announce their third album, Walk The River will be released in Australia on May 13 2011.
A startling marriage of melody and atmosphere, Walk The River combines layers of harmony and other-worldly instrumentation that give way to fragile songs of hope and loss. Fyfe Dangerfield’s lyrical visions of a lost, stranded soul in search of a home lead a passionate and soulful band whose sound ranges from stripped to the bone to wildly ambitious and uninhibited.
"The songs had to sound as if they were being heard through the night sky", explains Dangerfield, "sleepwalking their way onto tape. But they also needed to survive on a piano or acoustic guitar and still grip you, still have a rawness and directness that would move you without relying on the arrangements. We wanted to make a record that would completely surround you as you listened to it, fill you with warmth."
Through Walk The River, Guillemots create their own universe which seems both familiar and unexpected. Echoes of Roy Orbison in a multitracked choir (‘Tigers’) and psychedelic hints of the Righteous Brothers (‘Sometimes I Remember Wrong’) , line up alongside the spiky energised pop of ‘Ice Room’ and the freewheeling chaos of ‘The Basket’, the first single to be taken from the album.
The subsonic pulse and energy of ‘I Must Be A Lover’ joins ‘Dancing in the Devil’s Shoes’, which builds from an aching, fragile lullaby into a majestic anthem. ‘Vermillion’ opens with lo-fi home-recorded acoustic strumming, but soon morphs into a throbbing, interstellar slice of Fleetwood Mac-inspired genius, laying the groundwork for the uplifting but heartbreaking ‘I Don’t Feel Amazing Now’
Guillemots’ Walk The River is both beautiful and bold - a troubled but determined journey and an album to hold close.
