Name: Welcome Strangers
Brand: Modern Studies

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2018-05-18

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Standard:20

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809236152428

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

firelp524

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Standard Vinyl housed in Gatefold Sleeve with Download.

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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180 Gram Vinyl housed in Gatefold Sleeve with Download.

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Modern Studies

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Indie Pop / Shoegaze

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Fire Records

Fire Records is an independent record label headquartered in London, England, UK. Founded in the mid 80s, Fire Records has been a prominent force in the music industry for decades. They have released early records from Pulp, Teenage Fanclub, Spacemen 3, Blue Aeroplanes, and many other influential artists. In the early 90s, the label was home to notable acts such as Neutral Milk Hotel, The Lemonheads, Built to Spill, and Urge Overkill.With a rich history of discovering talent and nurturing their careers, Fire Records remains dedicated to supporting groundbreaking musicians across various genres. Their diverse roster showcases both established names and emerging talents who push boundaries and challenge conventions.

Modern Studies is a folk rock band hailing from Scotland, specifically Perthshire, Glasgow, and Lancashire. The band consists of Emily Scott on vocals, organs, piano, and double bass; Rob St. John on vocals, guitar, synths, harmonium, and tape loops; Pete Harvey on cello, bass, and piano; and Joe Smillie on drums, mellotron, and vocals.

Their unique blend of instruments creates a captivating sound that draws inspiration from various genres such as folk rock. With *Emily Scott's* enchanting vocals leading the way alongside the mesmerizing melodies produced by *Rob St. John*, Modern Studies delivers an unforgettable musical experience.

If you enjoy artists like Pictish Trail or Kathryn Joseph or if you appreciate the sounds of Modern Nature or Lightning In A Twilight Hour then Modern Studies is sure to be your cup of tea. Their music has also been compared to Death and Vanilla and Constant Smiles among others.

Welcome Strangers is the second record by feral pop outliers Modern Studies. Elegiac and haunted, life-giving and triumphant, this beguiling return digs deep into landscapes both real and imagined, internal and external, in a work that might perhaps best be described as “kosmiche choral” or, if we’re pushing it “arts-und-crafts-werk”. Or, put simply, glorious pop music. It is an elemental and often spectral world of contrasting tones and hues that is found within Welcome Strangers, one whose lyrical vocabulary is of loss, light, air, sun, growth; of spires, seeds and phosphene dreams. Here is the Britain of visionaries such as Kate Bush, Broadcast or PJ Harvey, a nation of dark magic, conﬂict, celebration and confusion, all at the same time. Witness the incandescent chamber-pop of Get Back Down: underpinned by complex jazz rhythms, and string and brass ﬂourishes, it manages to be both understated and epic as it explores a similar sonic terrain to Wild Beasts. Or there’s Horns And Trumpets, a haunting musical perambulation that burrows deep into Britain, a warm-hued hymn for future generations, and Let Idle Hands, which abandons restraint halfway through and, in a moment of musical epiphany, runs joyously to the horizon. Meanwhile on Phosphene Dream the honeyed harmonies of Emily Scott and Rob St. John wrap themselves around each other like Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood had they holidayed in draughty Glasgow tenements. Or perhaps – as on ‘Disco’ – they come closer to Kylie and Nick Cave.

LP - Standard Vinyl housed in Gatefold Sleeve with Download.

LP+ - 180 Gram Vinyl housed in Gatefold Sleeve with Download.