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Beneath Strawberry Moons

    Wind-tousled life on the east coast of Scotland, the unhurried cultivation of sound and the warm feeling that everything might be alright in the end combine to enchant on Gulp’s latest single, Hope Shines Through The Haar. Shimmering into view as the band announces a third album, Beneath Strawberry Moons, the combined inspirations of Lindsey Leven and Guto Pryce are supplemented by the musicianship of Andrew Wasylyk as the stomach-butterflies of optimism flutter around and the lapping foams of the band’s ethereal, folkish psych-pop.

    Musician and multi-media artist, Leven rejoins Pryce, who traces faintly around the simmering offbeat sounds of his life as a Super Furry Animal (as well as part of Das Koolies and The Pictish Trail), and supporting bandmates, Gid Goundrey (guitar) and Stuart Kidd (drums), for Gulp’s third album. The nine-track Beneath Strawberry Moons, released via ELK Records, follows their 2014 debut, Season Sun, released with Sonic Cathedral and the acclaimed All Good Wishes, which arrived four years later. Extending the gestation of a complete, new collection of work to seven years, accounting for the pair’s relocation from Pryce’s native Cardiff, Beneath Strawberry Moons emerges as a minimal-carbon-footprint, hyperlocal album, created amongst friends with no deadlines between Piggery Studio and the duo’s garden cabin in North East Fife.

    Describing their surrounds as ‘idyllic’ and responding artistically to the significant life change, that has brought energy and release, Leven describes the album as “in the most part a love letter to this new way of life”, celebrating space, love, connection and time, cut with an underlying awareness of the fragility of this beauty. Having leaked new material, the cinematic showdown of Always So Far, back in May, the choice of Hope Shines Through The Haar as Gulp’s first single since 2018 links the pair’s delicately charged sense of abundant possibility, Scotland’s heritage and their bracing proximity to the sea.

    TRACK LISTING

    1. Sea Bear
    2. Always So Far
    3. Salt Years
    4. Hope Shines Through The Haar
    5. The Way We Live
    6. Wildflower
    7. Summer Storm
    8. Someday In A City
    9. Ultramarine Blue

    Gulp

    Issue 8

      Hot off the presses, the latest issue of GULP magazine is here.

      GULP magazine takes inspiration from the counter cultural press of the 1960’s such as OZ and IT magazine by producing a visually exhilarating and chaotic design. 

      Unenthused by the plethora of clean, minimalist glossy mags flooding cafes, bars, book shops and record shops, their aim is to offer the reader an alternative experience of printed media.

      Founded and curated by Natasha Kay-Sportelli and Tomas Walmsley, GULP was established in 2019. GULP is about giving artists a platform to experiment with, championing the offbeat and aiming  to encourage encounters with unknown and underappreciated oddities.

      They commission and facilitate work from creatives at any point in their career, as well as documenting the wise words of the people they are inspired by.




      Sports Team

      Gulp!

        Second studio album via Island Records.

        Signposting a bold and ambitious new era for the band, Sports Team explain that ‘R Entertainment’ explores “The packaging down of all human experience into entertainment, prompted by the infinite scroll through social feeds and the manic formlessness of the images we are hit with every day. Graphic news interrupted by ads for season 17 of The Bodyguard, news as a rubbernecking, passively waiting for the next drop of horror as we flick through recipes.”

        Sports Team are Alex Rice (lead vocals), Rob Knaggs (rhythm guitar + vocals), Henry Young (lead guitar), Oli Dewdney (bass), Al Greenwood (drums) and Ben Mack (keyboard + percussion). Formed in 2016, the band released two EPs Winter Nets and Keep Walking! before sharing their debut album Deep Down Happy in June 2020 to widespread critical acclaim, praised by The Times for their “indomitable spirit and a refusal to take things too seriously” and The Guardian for their “sharply observational lyrics skewering the mores of suburbia”.


        TRACK LISTING

        The Game
        Dig!
        The Drop
        Cool It Kid
        Unstuck
        R Entertainment
        Kool Aid
        Getting Better
        Fingers
        Light Industry


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