Still House Plants – Fast Edit

Still House Plants – Fast Edit

  • £19.78


Fast Edit is the second LP made by Still House Plants - the Glasgow and South London-based three-piece made up of Finlay Clark, David Kennedy, and Jessica Hickie-Kallenbach. Written aided by mobile phones, dictaphones, laptop recordings of rehearsals, conversations and live shows, Fast Edit is a collage of different fidelities and headspaces, most tenderly exhibited on album centrepiece ‘Shy Song’, and framed in the editions of ‘Getting Murky’, ‘Crreeaase’ and ‘September’ put down in the studio. In the year spent writing this record, Still House Plants lived more separately, together for shows and home alone, and in between they learned to save and build on everything made. ‘Fast Edit’ collates their notes, overlaying past editions with new versions, pulling focus from the record itself to the room it was recorded in and inviting you to see the seams. ‘PredikateD’ is a phone on the ground but the voice is air, the guitar and drums melding with the plywood and sand wall structure. It was a simple room.

The sentiment of the record is probably best described in part of an intervention written for what would have been the 2020 edition of Glasgow's Counterflows Festival by Frances Morgan: "Getting used to the idea of never getting anywhere except for between these three notes, these two words, getting tired, getting beyond it, getting locked in. Trying to get it down, trying to get it written. Like the song that didn’t get anywhere: it still moves, it doesn’t move....How do you think we should do this? The song does something different now, puts the other foot forward. How do you know when it’s done? End on a verb and it becomes a command: run! Towards the next thing. Do – towards the next thing to be done.”

Recorded & mixed by Shaun Crook and Darren Clark at Lockdown Studios, London. Mastered and cut by Helmut Erler at Dubplates and Mastering. Typeface by Still House Plants, layout by Maja Larrson. Produced in partnership with Blank Forms, New York. Read interview at Tone Glow here:https://toneglow.substack.com/p/024-still-house-plants

  • Label: Bison - BIS005
  • Format: LP 
  • Country: UK
  • Released: 2020
  • Genre: Indie-pop/Jazz
  • Media condition: Mint (M)
  • Sleeve condition: Mint (M)
  • Release Date: 11th September (sent day before via tracked 1st class post).      (International buyers please allow up to 10 days to receive your record)

Listen: https://soundcloud.com/user-87906277-218578271

Track list: 1. Pleasures 2. Blink 2wice 3. Getting Murky 4. Choppy Nice 5. Room 6. Shy Song 7. Curb 8. Do 9. Able To 10. I'm in Your Orbit 11. Crreeaase 12. September 13. Predickated.