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Custom Blue – Under The Counter/ You’re On Your Own

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Far Out’s 7″ series enters the dark heart of London with Custom Blue’s ‘Under the Counter’ & ‘You’re on your Own’ – a heady prescription of downbeat psychadelia and vintage folk perfect for those of you suffering from a case of the 21st century blues…

Custom Blue are Alex Pilkington & Simon Shippey – their debut album “All Follow Everyone” was released to great acclaim on Ross Allen’s Island Blue imprint late 2002. This is their first new release since then and ‘You’re on your own’ has been produced by Mark ‘Troubleman’ Pritchard.

With it’s swirling guitars, hazy drums, haunting vocals and throbbing bass line (courtesy of Chris from the Bays), ‘Under the Counter’ is a sonic fix of psychedelic heads-down dub guaranteed to keep all you drugstore cowboys shuffling into the small hours. If ‘Under the Counter’ is late Saturday night business then flip the record and you get the Sunday morning comedown in the shape of ‘You’re on your Own’. Produced by Mark Pritchard, it’s a hauntingly beautiful yet claustrophobic, stripped down vintage sounding folk cut.

Alex and Simon take their influences from far and wide: Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Plaid, Joni Mitchell, Neu, Dorothy Ashby, Arthur Verocai and Cedric Brooks amongst many others. They have allowed shadows, soul, string sections and electronically nuanced suggestion to seep into the acoustic songwriter heart of their work.

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Additional information

Artist

Custom Blue

Catno

171 45

Year

2005

Country

UK

Product Type

New Vinyl / Reissues

Format

7 INCH

Media Condition

NEW

Sleeve Condition

NEW