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DAN MICHAELSON AND THE COASTGUARDS NEW SINGLE ‘TIDES’ OUT ON 8TH JULY – NEW LIVE DATES ANNOUNCED IN SEPTEMBER

June 18, 2016

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DAN MICHAELSON AND THE COASTGUARDS
NEW SINGLE ‘TIDES’ OUT ON 8TH JULY
 
NEW LIVE DATES ANNOUNCED IN SEPTEMBER
 
NEW ALBUM ‘MEMORY’ OUT NOW 
“A miserabalist Masterpiece”**** The Telegraph
“Magical, melancholy songs”**** The Guardian
“An understated delight”**** The Independent
“London’s answer to Leonard Cohen”- NME
“both hauntingly invasive and reassuringly comforting at the same time, something that has defined him for many years as a genuine innovator and artist.” The Line of Best Fit
 
Dan Michaelson and the Coastguards’ critically acclaimed new album ‘Memory’ is out now through The state51 Conspiracy. The record is concerned with recollection and our ability to twist and warp history, rewriting the past each time we try to retrieve it.
New single ‘Tides’, out on 8th July, tells the story of a person who throws everything to the sea, only to have it washed back to their feet the same, but different, worn and marked by the journey. ‘Tides’ will be released on a ltd Edition of only 15 hand-lathe cut vinyl 7s with screen printed covers and digitally.

Dan Michaelson and the Coastguards have now confirmed and string of UK live dates in September:
 
8th September – Castle – Manchester – TICKETS
9th September – Lamplight Club – Sheffield – TICKETS
12th September – Old St Pancras Church – London – TICKETS
Written and produced by Dan Michaelson and mixed by Ash Workman (Metronomy, Christine and the Queens), the album was recorded at The Premises, London and will be available on CD, vinyl and as a download. ‘Memory’ is the follow up to 2014’s much-celebrated ‘Distance’ and the final installment in an album trilogy that commenced with ‘Blindspot’ in 2013. Michaelson recently scored the music for BAFTA-winning BBC series ‘Detectorists’, starring Mackenzie Crook and Toby Jones.
As the album title suggests, ‘memory’ is one of the key themes explored on the record. Michaelson, who admits he has “almost zero memory”, ponders the impact and consequence of our ability, or inability, to remember and how our recollections are often warped and reinterpreted. “There’s very little I could say with any authority about my past,” he says. “Memory’s role in retelling a fact and slowly shaping it into a fiction without my consent, keeps rewriting my history. Songs are a way of freezing a moment recollected before it moves on without me.”
From the sparse, minimal ‘Blindspot’ (2013) to the relatively more replete ‘Distance’ (2014) and concluding with ‘Memory’, the trilogy retains a type of ‘epic minimalism’ Michaelson was trying to achieve musically. “I went lookingfor a way to carry what I’d written. Memory is the end point of this particular story. In my small world, ‘Blindspot’ is the script, ‘Distance’ is the play, and ‘Memory’ is the widescreen movie.”
Dan Michaelson and the Coastguards are Dan Michaelson (vocals, guitar, piano), Henry Spenner (drums), Laurie Earle (guitar, piano) and Horse (guitar). Joining them on ‘Memory are Romeo Stodart of The Magic Numbers (bass), Ali Friend (double bass), Gabriel Stebbing (cello), Johnny Flynn (violin and flugelhorn), Jin Theriault (baritone sax), Yusuf Narcin (trombone) and Christo Squire (alto sax).

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