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The Lion And The Wolf Shares Straight To Tape Session Video ‘The Pinching Point’

October 4, 2016

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THE LION AND THE WOLF
Shares Straight To Tape Live Session Video Of ‘The Pinching Point’

Watch: https://youtu.be/e7xzDhSQlL8

The Lion And The Wolf’s new album ‘The Cardiac Hotel’ will be released on 07 October 2016 through Xtra Mile Recordings

PRE ORDERS AVAILABLE NOW:
Xtra Mile Recordings – http://smarturl.it/TheCardiacHotel
iTunes – http://smarturl.it/TLATWCardiac-iTunes

The Lion And The Wolf has shared the straight to tape session video of ‘The Pinching Point’. The track, taken from the new album ‘The Cardiac Hotel’, out on October 7th, was recorded by Red Squirrel Productions in Ventnor, Isle Of Wight.

Speaking on the recording, Tom George said, “Recording to tape was something I have always wanted to do. When the opportunity came up to do a live session with Red Squirrel in Ventnor, I couldn’t refuse.

“It sounds like a progression compared to my old material and I feel it’s an accurate representation of how I sing live. I feel that it sounds fragile and understated, perhaps? I love the way Red Squirrel approached this, the guitar sounds like it could almost be from a Jeff Buckley track.”

Watch: The Lion And The Wolf – ‘The Pinching Point’: https://youtu.be/e7xzDhSQlL8

Catch The Lion And The Wolf on tour this November with Will Varley:

08 Nov – Glasgow, King Tuts
09 Nov – Manchester, Gorilla
10 Nov – Newcastle, Cluny
11 Nov – Nottingham, Rescue Rooms
18 Nov – London, Union Chapel

Tickets are on sale now: http://www.seetickets.com/tour/will-varley

Xtra Mile will release The Lion And The Wolf’s second album, ‘The Cardiac Hotel’ on 07 October 2016. Preorders are now available on CD, LP and download with digital orders receiving the track ‘Find The Time’ instantly.

Xtra Mile’s first contact with The Lion and the Wolf was back in 2014 as Rob Lynch’s choice for Xtra Mile High Club Vol.5: Smokin’ (Signed vs Unsigned), where XMR artists chose their favourite unsigned acts to join them on this huge label compilation. Impressed by his DIY outlook and mesmeric songs, XMR followed Thomas’s journey up to this point.
Since quitting the kind of life lived by the rest of us in January 2014, Thomas has played over 300 shows, supporting labelmates Rob Lynch, Northcote and PJ Bond, among others, as well as appearing at Slam Dunk, Isle of Wight Festival, 2000trees, Blissfields, Fest and Hevy. He released his debut album Symptoms late 2014, a full-band affair crafted from analogue sounds. Comparisons to Elliot Smith and Simon & Garfunkel followed, as well as more shows and more opportunities to revel in community and friendship.

Second album, ‘The Cardiac Hotel’ was expedited and creatively driven by Thomas’s dad getting sick, the songs pouring forth as they tend to do when a loved one’s future is uncertain. It’s hard not to listen to The Lion And The Wolf’s second album and not feel a little of that seismic shift yourself. If you don’t feel it in the billowing organ chord that begins ‘Don’t Fail Me Now’, then it’ll fill you on ‘My Fathers Eyes’. The reverb weight blurring the edges, seemingly disintegrating Thomas’s voice, brings pathos to the urgent, searing sounds that brew underneath.
Violins, brass and lyrics that break upon the softest ears and hearts like waves, particularly on ‘The Pinching Point’ (“All the time struggled to breathe, now she doesn’t have to grieve at the finish line”), while pianos and seething strings seem to bellow over the gentle finger picking and clicking drums on closer ‘Find the Time’.

It feels fragile while wrapping itself in strength of heart, a certain courage needed to bare the soul or strip down to honesty. The Cardiac Hotel is still warm though, never feeling disconnected from the listener, probably because of the lack of digital interference. And that’s important because The Lion and the Wolf is all about intimacy and understanding.
You’ll never be alone with The Lion and the Wolf, and you’ll never have to feel that way now you’re part of the pride and pack.

PRE ORDERS AVAILABLE NOW:
Xtra Mile Recordings – http://smarturl.it/TheCardiacHotel
iTunes – http://smarturl.it/TLATWCardiac-iTunes

The Lion And The Wolf is:

Thomas George – Curator

The Lion And The Wolf on tour:

14 Oct – Ventnor, St Catherine’s Church (‘The Cardiac Hotel’ Release Show)

21 Oct – Wiesbaden, Walhalla
22 Oct – Winterthur, Gaswerk
24 Oct – Koln, Stereo Wonderland
25 Oct – Hamburg, Hafenklang
26 Oct – Essen, Zeche Carl
27 Oct – Eindhoven, Calypso
28 Oct – Bremen, Tower
29 Oct – Bielefeld, Hafen
30 Oct – Berlin, The Monarch
04 Nov – Weissenhauiser, Rolling Stone Weekender

08 Nov – Glasgow, King Tuts
09 Nov – Manchester, Gorilla
10 Nov – Newcastle, Cluny
11 Nov – Nottingham, Rescue Rooms
18 Nov – London, Union Chapel

The Lion And The Wolf online:

https://www.facebook.com/thelionandthewolf
https://twitter.com/TLATWuk
https://thelionandthewolf.bandcamp.com

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