London-born Cosmo Sheldrake has announced his long-awaited second studio album Eye to the Ear will be released April 12 via Tardigrade Records. The multi-instrumentalist, producer, composer, accomplished live improviser, and field recordist also shares two singles from the album to celebrate the announcement: “Stop the Music” and “Does the Swallow Dream of Flying”. Check em out below that fans of King Krule’s avant-garde approach will enjoy..
Eye to the Ear was produced by Cosmo and mixed by Dilip Harris (King Krule, Micachu, Mount Kimbie) and features twenty-one tracks combining traditional instrumentation, electronic production, and field recordings ranging from celebratory anthems to soulful elegies to irresistible dance numbers. Animated by themes of interconnection and symbiosis, Cosmo’s expansive musical imagination is rooted in practices of listening – both to human and more-than-human sound worlds.
“I am incredibly excited to share some of the music from my new album Eye to the Ear,” Cosmo says, “It has been a wild journey to piece it all together over the last five years. Today I’m releasing the opening and final songs of the album together. The first is ‘Stop the Music’, which I wrote after learning about the extraordinary adventures of an ancestor of mine who had been a pickle and condiment maker. The song slowly fermented, and is now a celebratory stomp exploring themes of consumption, excess, madness, and the possibility of transformation. The final song on the album is called ‘Does the Swallow Dream of Flying’ which I wrote in a solar powered studio in a shed in Dorset. Here, I try to imagine the world from the perspective of other beings, including a bird, a flower, a river, and the wind. It also features the wonderful vocal ensemble Howl. I am so grateful to all the people, places, creatures, plants, fungi, and sounds that have helped to bring this music into being. I hope you enjoy!”
Eye to the Ear Tracklisting:
1. Gnort Or Gnortle
2. Stop the Music
3. Marvellous Clouds
4. I Did And I Don’t And I Do
5. Old Ocean
6. By Being With You
7. I Stitched My Mind Back to My Body
8. The Feet Are the Link
9. Half Past Three
10. I To the Maybe Go
11. Tea For Seventeen
12. Breathe Round Corners
13. Run
14. But Once a Child
15. Shiny Is the View
16. The Snapping Of Shrimp
17. More Than a Mountain
18. Lichens
19. Flora’s Pond
20. Interdimensional
21. Does the Swallow Dream of Flying
UK + EU 2024 Tour Dates:
April 12 – Rough Trade East, London
April 15 – Rough Trade, Bristol
April 17 – The Academy, Dublin
April 18 – Stereo, Glasgow (sold out)
April 19 – Yes, Manchester (sold out)
April 20 – Belgrave Music Hall, Leeds (sold out)
May 2 – SWX, Bristol
May 3 – EartH, London (sold out)
May 4 – EartH, London (new show)
May 15 – Trix, Antwerp (sold out)
May 16 – Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam (sold out)
May 17 – Le Hasard Ludique, Paris (sold out)
May 18 – Gebäude 9, Cologne
May 20 – Knust, Hamburg
May 21 – Hole44, Berlin
May 22 – Strom, Munich
May 28 – Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna
