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Simon Raymonde plays Disconnected (Shrinkwrap Remix) Listen Here:

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:25:00 +0100

Simon Raymonde plays Disconnected (Shrinkwrap Remix) Listen Here:

Disconnected played on Radio 2 by Dermot O'Leary today - Listen Here:

Sat, 11 May 2013 21:37:41 +0100

Disconnected played on Radio 2 by Dermot O'Leary today - Listen Here:

Huw Costin - Disconnected (Stefan Cordery Remix) will be...

Fri, 10 May 2013 14:13:22 +0100

Huw Costin - Disconnected (Stefan Cordery Remix) will be available on the forthcoming Beatlounge Compilation.

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Wed, 08 May 2013 12:07:22 +0100

22.04.13 I’m really happy to announce that on 10th June, I will...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:42:00 +0100

22.04.13

I’m really happy to announce that on 10th June, I will be releasing my new album ‘Something/Nothing’.
Please head over to The Quietus now for a little taster… they’re premiering the beautiful video of title track ‘Something/Nothing’, made by the very talented Emma Reading…

http://thequietus.com/articles/12040-huw-costin-something-nothing-video

The full story here:

Huw Costin
Album Release: ‘Something/Nothing’
10th June 2013

“Huw Costin makes classic records with an attention to detail not often heard anymore - achingly beautiful, direct and gentle poetry”
Mark Lanegan

It doesn’t take Huw Costin and his second solo album, ‘Something/Nothing’, long to get to the heart of the matter. Less than 45 seconds, in fact. Amidst grand orchestral sweeps and cannon shots of brass, the Nottingham based singer, songwriter and producer delivers the killer line: “Yes, I believe that we are doomed”. It’s not the most optimistic opening to an album, but anyone who’s heard Costin’s debut, ‘Regrets’, will know that lyrical transparency and candid sincerity are trademark qualities in his work.

‘Something/Nothing’ exhibits a true understanding of the ebb and flow of romance, recalling the rush and passion of both love and loneliness and carrying out sometimes painful but always heartfelt post-mortems on now disintegrated relationships.

Musically the album is expansive, eloquent, and honest. From the opening, grandiose strains of ‘Doomed’ to the fragile closing chamber strings of ‘Butterfly Girls’, ‘Something/Nothing’ is far more than a standard singer/songwriter album, having far more in common with some of the artists Costin admire most: Robert Wyatt and Roy Harper, Brian Eno and The Beach Boys, Julian Cope and Joni Mitchell. You can hear them all: in the details his lyrics offer, in the minutiae of his arrangements and harmonies, in the lack of self-consciousness he demonstrates.

There’s a longing in the delicate slow motion melody of ‘Move To The City’ and there’s comfort in the return to familiar faces and scenes that ‘December’ represents, its acoustic setting triumphantly swollen at the song’s end by brass. The title track is similarly soothing and ‘Disconnected’ is a sweet, wide-eyed tune that threatens to blow wide open with trombone and e-bow. The album concludes with the short but charming ‘Butterfly Girls’, a plaintive acoustic number.

Costin has worked with both Brian Eno and Mark Lanegan but mostly his musical journey has been a ramble around the more obscure reaches of the indie world. He’s as influenced by folk, country and rock of the 60’s and 70’s as the Nottingham ambient scene of the early 90’s and has been compared to the likes of Big Star, Elbow and Jeff Buckley.

Video - Torn Sail at the Reverb Project 23.02.13

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:29:35 +0000

Video - Torn Sail at the Reverb Project 23.02.13

I met some lovely people at a gig I played in Birmingham at the...

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:12:24 +0000

I met some lovely people at a gig I played in Birmingham at the Ort Cafe. Turns out they were a band, and a band that plays beautiful, heartfelt, sincere music too…so I’m looking forward to taking Torn Sail down the Motorway to this gig with The Micky Greany Band. I’ve always enjoyed my trips to Birmingham, maybe because it was one of the first Cities outside of my own to welcome my old band Earth The Californian Love Dream to great little gigs at the Railway where we were allowed to be disrespect the other bands and the furniture, blag extra lager and still be welcomed back. Maybe it’s because so much of my favourite music was born here - the music of Black Sabbath, ELO, The Moody Blues, Napalm Death & UB40. In my time I’ve been lucky enough to play through Geezer’s old amp, and hang out with Shane Embury a few times. I was playing bass mostly at the time, so bass-heads will especially be able to guess at the awe these occasions inspired in me. Anyway…hope to see you there.

Available as a very limited 7” single in clear vinyl, or...

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:51:00 +0000

Available as a very limited 7” single in clear vinyl, or as a free download:

My Christmas single. I was trying to fix a broken heart, trying to escape it, climbing up out of the Rhondda, up on to the Bwlch, through the thick snow, on Christmas Eve, feeling wretched. It’s a cliche, but time does heal. If you survive. This is a song about time.

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A chilly Sheffield night with a warm crowd. 30.11.12 at the...

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 23:08:43 +0000

A chilly Sheffield night with a warm crowd. 30.11.12 at the Shakespeare.

Huw’s band Torn Sail’s new single...

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:25:54 +0000

Huw’s band Torn Sail’s new single ‘Treasure’.

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Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:23:00 +0100