Name: Wives Tales and Hymns of the Earth
Brand: Porchlight

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

FHPL1

Colour

Purple

Colour details

Transparent Purple

Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: Yes

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Signed Copy

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-09-15

Signed copies

Signed copies: Yes

Supplier GB

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

5053760106333

Total Cap

Purple 12" | Signed Copy | Rough Trade Exclusive

Artist

Porchlight

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Fragile Hands

Vinyl variants, bonus material and signed editions exclusively available from Rough Trade.

Porchlight is an acclaimed artist known for their unique blend of soulful melodies and introspective lyrics. With a career spanning over a decade, Porchlight has captivated audiences worldwide with their emotive performances and captivating stage presence.
Combining elements of folk, indie rock, and pop, Porchlight's music resonates with listeners on a deep level. Their heartfelt songwriting explores themes of love, loss, and personal growth, creating an emotional connection that leaves a lasting impact.
Whether performing solo or with a full band, Porchlight's live shows are an experience not to be missed. Their powerful vocals and skilled musicianship create an immersive atmosphere that transports audiences to another world.

Structured chaos- perhaps the most fail-safe description of the ins and outs of being an artist. Between the peculiar highs and all too relatable lows, chaos follows art like houses in motion; all lofty ambitions, and fast-paced progress. For Brighton’s Porchlight, chaos, and the art of being a band, in all its complex commodities, is nothing more than mere childsplay, in the grand scheme of lawless artistry.

Formed of lead vocalist Sam Crees, bassist Oli Port, guitarists Hodges and Coram, and Harry Geal on drums, Porchlight are a charismatic hybrid who, off the back of a handful of singles and rabid word-of-mouth, are fast becoming one of the most beguiling acts to watch this side of the Atlantic.&nbsp;

Tried and tested through a myriad of notorious live-shows, which saw the group establish an ever-growing fanbase throughout the UK and EU, the five tracks that would eventually go on to form ‘Wives Tales and Hymns of the Earth’, Porchlight’s debut EP, are a symbolic mis-mash of heart-on-sleeve musicianship and delightfully raucous lyricism.&nbsp;

Loosely inspired by tales of small-town rural England- cottage villages with dark exteriors, ‘Wives Tales and Hymns of the Earth’ as a whole, is the outcome of five individual tales coming together to form a conceptually emphasised entity to end all conceptually emphasised entities. Completed by the poetic brood of ‘Blue Chalk’, the jagged anxieties of ‘Spin Doctor’ and Porchlight aficionado familiarities of opening track ‘From Monday’, in just short of twenty minutes ‘Wives Tales and Hymns of the Earth’ perfectly captures the sweeping emotions of a debut; a soul-stirring, ear-pounding documentation of a group taking their first steps into a whole new unknown of their own fine-crafted design.

For fans of Rage Against the Machine, Fugazi and Slint.

Wives Tales and Hymns of the Earth  

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