A Pyke Of Patina Slate

Description

'A Pyke of Patina Slate' is Pea Sea's third studio album which has been a long time in the making and was recorded, in part, in Berlin, Sunderland and Oxford. The album completes a trilogy following 2017's 'Lonnin Life' and 2013's Field Music assisted 'The Debatable Land'. Tom English (Maximo Park) and Peter Brewis (Field Music) contributed drums and production with additional help from Tim Greaves & Adam Serafini. The songs are a mixture of introspective ballads (Now that You're gone, Home from the Hill) and more folk-tinged narratives (The Loam, The Dominie's Log) to stomping rockers (Silloth Green, Youth Unit). There is even an exercise in primal screaming (Lascaux Motifs) as an inverted paen to Rollen's other band, BBC6 Music's Marc Riley favourites, Les Cox Sportifs. As with previous Pea Sea efforts there is the ever present poetic story telling but this time the mood is darker with an existential reportage of hard times, as exemplified in Mother England Parts 1 & 2. Pea Sea have been championed by Maximo Park, Field Music, The Futureheads, Cornshed Sisters as well as BBC6 Music's Marc Riley (recorded a session in 2013) and Lauren Laverne. Pea Sea has performed gigs with Gruff Rhys, The Vaselines, Calvin Johnson, Roddy Womble (Idlewild) and more. For fans of: Jonathan Richman, Richard & Linda Thompson, Jake Thackray, Bill Callahan, The Cramps.