Music

Meursault - Flittin'

John Rogers | Wednesday 20 June, 2012 18:31

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We’ve long been huge fans of big-voiced Scottish indie outsider Neil Pennycook and his aptly-named band Meursault. In fact, their previous album “All Creatures Will Make Merry” arguable ranks alongside the great independently produced records of this century, so far.

So the emergence of “Flittin’”, the first track from their next LP, is an exciting event. It’s a stomping folk song with swooning strings, pleasingly on the right side of lo-fi, that manages to squeeze both melancholy and triumphalism into its four-and-a-half minutes. A spidery, morning-light piano version reveals its lovely bones.

Look out for the new album soon on Song, By Toad.


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