Seamus Fogarty God Damn You Mountain Vinyl LP Yellow TShirt Colour Due Out 21/03/25
Please note this is a pre-order item due for release 21st March, 2025
Yellow T-Shirt Colour
Tracklist:
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It’s accompanied by a selection of exclusive bonus remixes and live tracks, by Geese, Pictish Trail and Seamus himself. Seamus will perform God Damn You Mountain in full for the first time at a special show in London, on Saturday, March 22 at the Broadside Hacks Folk Club at Theatreship, Canary Wharf.
Seamus Fogarty grew up in County Mayo in the west of Ireland, raised on Irish folk music and experimental electronica. His songs are a strange and hearty stew, taking traditional structures and compositions and amping up, warping, distorting, and misshaping them with layers of electronic dissonance and interference, found-sound spoken-word samples and other assorted rogue audio curio. Featuring lyrics about T-shirt stealing mountains, women who look like dinosaurs and various other unfortunate incidents, God Damn You Mountain was given its “full release” in 2014 by Lost Map, and received widespread critical acclaim, including being hailed by the Irish Times as “one of the best Irish albums of recent years”.
Recorded over the course of two years between 2010 and 2012, God Damn You Mountain is streaked with many different colours and textures: the lush greens of ‘Appletrees’, the flowing blues of ‘By The Waterside’, the sodden yellow T-shirt stranded atop its title track (Seamus took it off because he was hot from climbing the mountain and forgot to put it back on; the T-shirt’s still up there to the best of anyone’s knowledge). ‘The Undertaker’s Daughter’ finds traditional guitar, bouzouki and haunting folk harmonies twisted into unfamiliar skeletal shapes. ‘Rita Jack’s Lament’ effectively remixes and folds in upon itself, all spiralling tape loops squiggling next to digital feedback and warped delay, wrapped in Seamus’s mesmeric vocals and guitar. By the final tune, ‘The Evening Lay Down Upon Us’, everything is brought full circle with Seamus teasing in samples and summoning all manner of odd noises and audio ghosts. You’ll want to play this album over and over again to be sure it wasn’t some kind of weird dream.