Dear Satellite

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Cat No: XMR114CD

Release Date: 08 April 2016

Label: Xtra Mile Recordings Ltd. / Xtra Mile Recordings

Packaging Type: Super Jewel Case (SACD)

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 5056032300491

Genres: Rock Alternative

Description
Mull Historical Society (Colin MacIntyre) will celebrate his birthday this year, on 8th April 2016, by releasing his seventh album 'Dear Satellite' through Xtra Mile Recordings.

''Dear Satellite', the seventh album from Mull Historical Society, was produced by Grammy award-winning Don Morley, known for his work on Amy Winehouse's Back To Black, as well as working with Adele, Grinderman and Sting. He also produced Colin's first album on Xtra Mile Recordings, 'City Awakenings', released in 2012.

Dear Satellite is ten tracks of floating, positive, texturally diverse pop songs. The spring morning brightness spread across 'Sleepy Hollow' and 'This Little Sister' may leap you into optimistic, slightly cheerful abandon but 'Why Do They Go So Soon' wrings a little melancholy into the warmth. The odd off-key whistling underpinning the rhyming acoustic pop of 'Bones' meshes the weird elements you'd have expected from MHS of old, while the chiming synth-drive of 'The Ballad of Ivor Punch' reaches into indie rock circa 2005. 'All the Love Remains' and 'Each Other' captures the sweet and serious strumming that MHS has made his own, while the album closes with the reflective, sky-and-soul-searching 'Farewell to Finisterre', continuing the seeming interest of Xtra Mile Recordings' bands in space and star gazing.

Colin says: "I couldn't be happier with the album. It is 10 songs, 36 minutes, and it feels like a perfect distillation of what I can do, and my best work. I've really pushed myself as a songwriter and tried to challenge myself to evolve sonically and capture a unique atmosphere within the album. There is a lot of space in it, lushness, but also it feels punchy and melodically pop. It is about home, getting home, leaving home, finding home, whatever planet or street or field you live on. Whatever home means to you. I'm so excited to see it enter the world. It looks bloody good too!"

'Dear Satellite' follows a mammoth 2015 for Colin which saw him celebrate 15 years since his first MHS release 'Barcode Bypass', unveil his first 'Best of' collection on double vinyl for Record Store Day, and publish his first novel, The Letters of Ivor Punch, which also won the Edinburgh International Book Festival's First Book award. It will be released in paperback edition the day before his birthday and the release of 'Dear Satellite'.
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