Gulp - All Good Wishes [White Vinyl]

Format: LP, White Vinyl
Catalogue No.: ELKREC5LP
Barcode: 5053760040835
Release Date: 10 Mar 2023
Genre: Indie/Alternative

Limited restock on WHITE VINYL / Sleeve SIGNED by band

TRACKLISTING:
A1. Search For Your Love
A2. Claudia
A3. Spend Time Right Here with You
A4. I Dream of Your Song
A5. Beam
A6. All Good Wishes
B1. Morning Velvet Sky
B2. Following Rain
B3. Ride
B4. Watching Ships
B5. Silver Tides

With ‘All Good Wishes’ Gulp are on a journey, a state of perpetual transition. The band make mini Kraut-pop epics, informed equally by the sun flares of the Californian desert and the drizzle of pure, sweet Scottish rain and northern light. Debut album ‘Season Sun’ was a home-grown delight, a ramshackle, endlessly inventive selection of dreamy psychedelic nuggets to watch the world flash past.
‘All Good Wishes’ half-inches its title from a vintage Scottish postcard, and it’s emblematic of the changes the pair have undergone. “I think all through making this record we were looking at relocating,” Guto explains. “Whereas the first record was more of a road trip this is possibly a bit more focussed on home, and focussed on where we’re from and where we’re looking to go to. It’s partly a farewell to Wales, and hello to Scotland.”
The record was largely built in South Wales, a three-year process that saw the band retreat to their basement for endless sonic incisions and revisions. A broader, wider, perhaps bolder experience than their debut, ‘All Good Wishes’ is rooted in fantastic pop songwriting, in creating three minute vignettes that express complex ideas in a simple, accessible, endlessly fascinating way. Endlessly restrained yet infinitely open, each Gulp track is like a world in miniature, ideas borrowed from Krautrock and electronic culture slimmed down into these infinitely enjoyable pop songs.