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M G Boulter
Clifftown
Released 23 Apr 2021
M G Boulter
M G Boulter’s new album, Clifftown, uniquely charts the characters, personal histories and stories of growing up in English seaside suburbia. It’s songs are both observant and affecting; here you will find the neon lights and burnt sugar smells of a Saturday night seafront but also the solitary Essex noir of the salt marshland. As M G demurely sings in the title track ‘Clifftown’, “Their kids grow up to a lawnmower drone/ their kids grow old and move away from home/ by seafront palisades they’re swapping smokes/before they’re gone”. So evocative has the project been for M G that he has created a podcast series (‘The Clifftown Podcast’) exploring the culture of this often overlooked experience of British seaside life.
The roll call of musicians appearing on the album include Pete Flood and Sam Sweeney (Bellowhead), Lucy Farrell (The Furrow Collective) and Richard Warren (Spiritualized, Mark Lanegan and Dave Gahan). It was produced and recorded with long time collaborator Andy Bell.
Having previously released two albums and numerous EPs, Clifftown is M G’s most complete work to date creating an immersive world rich with ordinary lives glimpsed through fairground grease and mindless 9 to 5 jobs. As much social commentary as an honest picture postcard of his hometown, Clifftown is an exquisite and life-affirming exploration of modern suburbia and the British seaside by one of the UK’s finest songwriting talents.
Tracklist
- Midnight Movies•
- Soft White Belly•
- CliffTown•
- Nights at the Aquarium•
- The Author of All Things, She Speaks•
- Icy Paw•
- Slow Decline•
- Fan of the Band•
- Simon of Sudbury•
- Night Worker•
- Remnants•
- Pilate
Credits
- M G Boulter Voice, Guitars, Lap and Pedal Steel, Mandolin
- Pete Flood Drums, Percussion, Glockenspiel
- Lizzy O’Connor Mandolin, Guitar, Voice, Banjo, Percussion
- Paul Ambrose Electric Bass, Double Bass, Synthesiser
- Tom Lenthall Keyboards, Piano, Synthesiser, Voice
- Helen Bell Violin, Viola
- Lucy Farrell Voice
- Neil McSweeney Voice
- Toby Kearney Drums on Pilate
- Sam Sweeney Violin
- Charlie Wild Violin
- Rob Harbron Bass
- Richard Warren Guitar
- Jack McNeill Clarinet & Bass Clarinet
- Andy Bell Produced, Recorded and Mixed
- Jake Charron Additional engineering
- Dean Honer Mastered
- Steven Collins Photography
- Jinnwoo Portrait photography
- Robin Beatty Design
