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Still House Plants are a Glasgow and London-based three-piece collective made up of guitarist Finlay Clark, drummer David Kennedy, and vocalist Jessica Hickie-Kallenbach. Their focus is on dissolving the boundaries between what constitutes music and art through collaboration and experimentation. Their work has been featured in Wire magazine as well as having received international airplay on NTS radio and BBC Radio 3. The trio have undertaken residencies at CCA (Glasgow), The Pipe Factory (Glasgow), Cafe OTO (London w/ Jerwood Arts) as well as having performed internationally at Empty Gallery (Hong Kong), Santiago, Hyperlocal festival (Buenos Aires w/ NTS and British Council) as well as extensively across Europe. 2020 would have seen the trio perform at CANICAS (Oaxaca), Counterflows (Glasgow, as Featured Artists), Gavin Brown?s Enterprise (NYC w/ Blank Forms), and Tokyo (w/ 33-33/MODE and British Council), however, these performances have been postponed due to COVID-19.
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Restocked; LP version.If I don't make it, I love u is Still House Plants third album and the fullest embodiment of their sound to date. Where Fast Edit formed with quick attachment and jump cuts, If I don't make it is shaped by persistence -- a commitment to the songs that makes the music solid, warmer and accepted. Marking the trio's decade of friendship, this is the first record written whilst all live in the same city since 2017's Assemblages. The band rehearsed it relentlessly, playing for nobody except themselves, consistently building support for one another and growing the way they play. Jess's voice is deeper. Fin's guitar is full size, richer. David drums harder. Focused on one point together, everyone gets bigger and nothing falls apart. The guitar and the drums blend, raise the voice, make room for what is being said, what is felt. When able to finally record, production allowed layers, gave elasticity, a chance to fully stretch. Playing with length and connections, the band brought in analog techniques -- a Leslie cabinet on "Headlight", sidechaining the snare with the guitar, pushing vocals through cheap DJ software -- each process an attempt to bring one instrument closer to another, to give bass, body, backup. If I don't make it, I love u seeks beauty, holds feeling maximum and builds surety with its sound. The most generous SHP record to date, the music is wide open, demands less. Play it again, it will come clear.
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If I don't make it, I love u is Still House Plants third album and the fullest embodiment of their sound to date. Where Fast Edit formed with quick attachment and jump cuts, If I don't make it is shaped by persistence -- a commitment to the songs that makes the music solid, warmer and accepted. Marking the trio's decade of friendship, this is the first record written whilst all live in the same city since 2017's Assemblages. The band rehearsed it relentlessly, playing for nobody except themselves, consistently building support for one another and growing the way they play. Jess's voice is deeper. Fin's guitar is full size, richer. David drums harder. Focused on one point together, everyone gets bigger and nothing falls apart. The guitar and the drums blend, raise the voice, make room for what is being said, what is felt. When able to finally record, production allowed layers, gave elasticity, a chance to fully stretch. Playing with length and connections, the band brought in analog techniques -- a Leslie cabinet on "Headlight", sidechaining the snare with the guitar, pushing vocals through cheap DJ software -- each process an attempt to bring one instrument closer to another, to give bass, body, backup. If I don't make it, I love u seeks beauty, holds feeling maximum and builds surety with its sound. The most generous SHP record to date, the music is wide open, demands less. Play it again, it will come clear.
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