Out now on Honey Be Records
£6 (UK) £7 (outside UK) incl P&P
It is hard to put into words the joy we feel at being able to release this album. Honey Be Records are proud to bring you South Southern Angel by The Sables. Now every word we write, and reference we make to this wonderful, dreamy, beautiful LP must do it justice. The fear of failure is overwhelming.
The Sables music has affected us deeply. The record holds as a whole with the inimitable logic of a dream. The words seem to emerge gradually, as if unable to escape the fug of woozy melancholy and quiet joy that coat these songs. Emotions, articulated through a voice: a woman, her tone hard to pin down – a little plaintive, mostly unconcerned, coming from unknown characters, appear then disappear with only the smallest trace. This music gives the impression that it may have always been playing. Ultimately, try as you might, these songs bury themselves so deep inside you that they may well never leave.
The story so far even for us is shrouded in a certain amount of mystery, but the pieces as we know them: a debut EP Pilgrim Man was released at the end of last year to immediate critical acclaim and a Single of the Week on the Radcliffe & Maconie show on Radio 2. A follow up EP Hidden Index consolidated on this success, earning the band a series of summer shows and festival appearances. The just released Neptune River EP is currently being played on Radio 2 and 6 Music, described as “beautifully mythic” and “absolutely gorgeous”. They are not wrong.
The Sables are people with a dream goal, describing South Southern Angel as a protest album or folly. We think these songs had to be sung… all around and within. You decide.
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