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It’s Bandcamp Friday, and we have five new surprise songs for you, in the form of two digital singles from Red River Dialect and James Elkington. Bandcamp is once again waiving its revenue share today, July 3, and we will do the same for all other digital Bandcamp sales, passing proceeds along to artists. 

The Overabundance EP follows Red River Dialect’s 2019 full-length Abundance Welcoming Ghosts (PoB-046) and includes three studio outtakes from that acclaimed album. The Guardian hailed Abundance Welcoming Ghosts as “alert, anti-colonialist folk” (and their Folk Album of the Month), and Pitchfork praised it as the band’s “most ingenious and immersive mix of folk and rock yet … finding joy in sensory pleasures as well as in the mystical inquests that music allows.” These songs by “the most underrated folk-rock band in Britain” (MOJO) are suffused with longing and raw loss. “Front Row” describes the emotional end of an evening after missing a Bill Callahan show, while “Old Afternoon” recalls a final meal with a father. “Slinky” is a moody instrumental.

Songwriter, singer, and guitarist David Morris writes:

Three songs couldn’t make it to the Abundance Welcoming Ghosts LP and have haunted it these past months. This EP contains perhaps the most intense and most free-flowing Red River Dialect moments, and the album feels somehow incomplete without them. At the same time they stand apart, being the three songs recorded during the album sessions that hark back to older times and well-worn themes.

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The Beechwood Park/Corridor Country single follows James Elkington’s 2020 full-length album Ever-Roving Eye (PoB-050) and includes one studio outtake from that acclaimed album as well as a cover of the Zombies classic. Both “Park” and “Country” are performed in solo settings. Uncut awarded Ever-Roving Eye a 9/10 rating, hailing it as a “triumph … an outstanding record from a humble collaborator” (and their Album of the Month), while Pitchfork, MOJO, The Guardian, and many others described it as Elkington’s best work to date.

James shares his thoughts about both “Beechwood Park” and his relationship to memory and the past:

I’m not really a nostalgic person, but I write about the past a lot as if it happened in a dream and that I’m merely reporting on it. “Beechwood Park” by The Zombies has that same feel to me. On the face of it, it seems to be an idealized view of the past that’s almost trite in its remembrance of “summer rain” and “country lanes,” but the winding chord sequence and spidery guitar tone makes it feel like it’s happening in a different dimension, and I’m always drawn to music that does that.

I worked up this version last year when I was sitting in a studio in upstate New York, waiting for a cab. The band I’d been working with had already left that morning, and the studio engineer was elsewhere, so I was on my own for some time. I can’t remember what prompted me to start working on it, but I do know that the studio was on a country lane, and it was raining, late summer. 

All proceeds from purchases of “Beechwood Park” b/w “Corridor Country” today via Bandcamp will be donated to Black Lives Matter Chicago. 

Elkington has also shared a playlist of songs and artists that inspired Ever-Roving Eye.