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In the coming weeks Honey Be Records will be releasing the debut ep from Deltorers, as well as Matt Marr’s ‘lost classic’ Beach In The Fallin’ Rain. Those releases will be swiftly followed by brand new albums by both Matt Marr and The Sables, neither of which we’re yet to hear, but the ridiculously high level of expectancy we have for both albums is simply born out of what has gone before.

When Matt Marr allowed us to release both his upcoming album Currency Of Souls, as well as Beach In The Fallin’ Rain, our grins quickly became painful. Matt’s earlier work with The Marlins is also some of the most inspired songwriting we’ve heard from this area. No, simply… it is the most inspired, along with what has followed. His writing affects us in a way that only people who truly love music can begin to understand. He observes and lives life with a wonderfully heavy heart and soul. His tales, both fictitious and sometimes uncomfortably real, should be heard by anyone who shares that true love.

Deltorers have, since the first time we saw them live, got to us in an all together different way. Lacking in subtlety, experience, or (to this very day) a set of drumsticks, was on top of something far more important – giving a shit about anything other than their music. If we were teenage girls we’d fancy the Deltorers. There… that’s a confession (of sorts) of our love for these guys. But, we’d be teenage girls who had been brought up on – and loved – their parent’s old Nirvana and Sonic Youth albums, who saw these three scruffy fuckers as one of those bands you’ve loved to have discovered before they were famous. In a town where the average ‘rock’ band is about as real as reality tv, Deltorers buck that trend without trying, and that is their appeal.

Things aren’t quite so simple when it comes to talking about The Sables. Their appeal to the listener is one of discovery, to dive into its depths and drown in its beauty. To seek, to explore, to ultimately lose yourself within the vastness of its colour and emotion. South Southern Angel was an inspiration to us, not only as the final nudge needed to create Honey Be, but creatively (along with the combined talents of the rest of the Sables family) it never stops impressing. Whilst we’re still drowning in its multi-coloured ocean, we’re trying to suppress our expectations for its successor – no easy thing…

Out now on Honey Be Records

£6 (UK) £7 (outside UK) incl P&P

Available to download from iTunes, 7 Digital,
Amazon,
Napster &
eMusic

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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