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Centuries (double album preview)

by David McClymont

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1.
Centuries 03:14
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2.
U 02:25
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3.
Lost in Transit 03:46
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4.
The Naked Ape 03:12
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5.
First Morning 03:47
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Centuries (vinyl double album) is available at: shop.lastnightfromglasgow.com/products/david-mcclymont-centuries-a-retrospective-2-x-lp

This collection of 27 songs is both an introduction to and a retrospective of the music I've released over the past decade. There is no chronology to the running order, with the selection based more on compiling an album with a beginning, middle and end. Recorded in a snug home studio, in a cosy country cottage, on the side of a sleepy mountain range, the sound of nature can't help but seep into the patina of the music - no vocal take is without the sound or a noisy parakeet, cockatoo or rogue frog colouring the recording.

Maybe nature is the entry point that saw me returning to music, this move back to a more rural setting which in itself was like a return to my childhood growing up in a stone farmers cottage on the west coast of Scotland. Also, in these recordings, there are detectable musical threads that weave back to late 197Os/early 1980s Glasgow when life felt like a second childhood before we were barely out of our first. It's history now, and you never really expect yourself to become part of history, so that in itself becomes a challenge to your own and others' expectations of the music you might make. These threads I see in my music are happy occurrences that conjure up the joy and excitement of starting out, the disappointments and triumphs, and the sheer wonder of living the artistic life.

All songs written and recorded by David McClymont between 2011/21 except The Antidote (words & vocal by Rick Morris), U (words & vocal by Jacqui Hunt) & Neorealism (words & vocal by Peter Loveday). Additional guitar on F by Mick Harvey, additional synth guitar on The Antidote by Rick Morris.

Mastered by Paul McGeechan. Special thanks to Stephen McRobbie for all his help and advice in putting this collection together, and lan Smith at LNFG for making it happen.

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released February 9, 2022

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David McClymont Melbourne, Australia

David McClymont, a founding member of the Scottish band Orange Juice, has released two CDs with the Scottish musician Momus and a steady stream of independent recordings as a solo performer and in collaboration with other artists. He recently released Centuries, a double vinyl retrospective on the Last Night From Glasgow label. ... more

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