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Endurance Soundly Caged

by Stick In The Wheel

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Bedlam 02:43
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Robot 04:24
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Villon Song 02:35
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Gold So Red 02:24

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Radical folk duo Stick In The Wheel announce a new special release for December 2022 - Endurance Soundly Caged. Limited edition transparent red vinyl, CD and digital.

Featuring fresh new arrangements of material spanning past releases, it was recorded live at the renowned Eastcote Studios, with Siân Monaghan on drums, George Hoyle on bass, along with Ian Carter’s trademark dobro and Nicola Kearey’s unmistakable voice.

Ian Carter: “The energy of the live band we put together has such a real, vital connection - which only a few people got a chance to see live - so we decided to take them into Eastcote to get it down on tape.”

Whereas Tonebeds for Poetry reflected their prolific studio experiments (and was #2 Guardian Contemporary AotY), Endurance Soundly Caged captures the intensity of the last two years’ live shows. The raw holler of Bedlam - recently featured in The Essex Serpent (AppleTV) - hardens through to a revitalized, heavier White Copper Alley’s sex-worker fable, drawing a line to a supercharged version of Villon Song, a 2020 favorite of both Iggy Pop and Marc Riley. Robot, taken from Tom Cox’s short story of the same name, is an all-new version of the menacing folk-horror saga that has mesmerised recent live audiences. An synth-led and autotuned As I Roved Out weaves a 10th Century charm into its other-worldly pastoral, whilst psychedelic Gold So Red conjures a final spell from one of the oldest surviving carols. The title is taken from a line in Bedlam, from the 1672 songbook “Pills to Purge Melancholy”.

The duo were asked by director-of-the-moment, and fan of the band, Clio Bernard, to perform music in The Essex Serpent, alongside Tom Hiddleston and Claire Danes. It meant being part of the show as 1890s itinerant street musicians, Bedlam soundtracking the villagers’ fear and unease against a mysterious force.

The last two years saw SITW release studio album Hold Fast (2020), and 2021’s more abstract mixtape, Tonebeds for Poetry (#2 Guardian Contemporary AotY), as well as the collaborative project Perspectives on Tradition (2022 with Nabihah Iqbal, Olugbenga & Jon1st). Their relentless approach to questioning traditional music forms is matched only by the energy with which they play it.

Praise for Stick In The Wheel:
“The most important band in the current British folk scene” ELE-KING MAGAZINE, JAPAN
“The Stick In The Wheel guerrilla: culture and contamination on a necessary record” EXPRESSO MAGAZINE, PORTUGAL
“Powerful - and deeply relatable” PITCHFORK
“Live, Stick In The Wheel are a diamond-hard machine” SONGLINES
“A remarkable voyage through a thousand years of London culture” UNCUT MAGAZINE 9/10

credits

released December 2, 2022

All music composed by Ian Carter and Nicola Kearey except tracks 1, 2 and 6 trad arr Kearey/Carter
Robot words by Tom Cox, Villon Song words from the poem by WE Henley
Recorded by George Murphy at Eastcote Studios
Produced and mixed by Ian Carter
Co-produced by Nicola Kearey

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Stick In The Wheel London, UK

Stick In The Wheel’s work is rooted in traditional music and song, informed by the modern electronic music that grew out of their hybrid East London heritage.

“SITW grab hold of folk music with both hands, dragging it through the 21st century city with no fear they might somehow break it.” THE QUIETUS

“The most important band in the current British folk scene” ELE-KING MAGAZINE, JAPAN
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