{"product_id":"seamus-fogarty-ships-sunset-pink-lp","title":"Seamus Fogarty - Ships LP (sunset pink vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe stunning new album from the incredible Seamus Fogarty!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHis most expansive and uplifting collection of music to date, packed with poignant and funny slice-of-life vignettes touching on love, loss, DIY coffins, cans on trains with strangers and so much more.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFeatures the singles 'Fire', 'I Passed Your House' and 'Ships'.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"block-affc52dea07edb1deecf\" data-sqsp-block=\"text\" data-block-type=\"2\" class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-sqsp-text-block-content=\"\" class=\"sqs-html-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eA pulsing, lushly-layered requiem for a lost friend and the October bleakness of the County Mayo countryside, \u003cstrong\u003e‘\u003cem\u003eI Passed Your House’\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is the first single to be taken from London-based Irish folk and electronica-mashing singer-songwriter Seamus Fogarty’s wonderful new album \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eShips\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, which will be released on limited-edition 12” coloured vinyl, CD and digital services on \u003cstrong\u003eMarch 6, 2026\u003c\/strong\u003e. Seamus’s first new collection of music since 2023’s \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eHee Haw \u003c\/em\u003eEP\u003c\/strong\u003e (featuring the BBC 6Music \/ Cillian Murphy acclaimed single \u003cstrong\u003e‘They Recognised Him’\u003c\/strong\u003e)\u003cstrong\u003e,\u003cem\u003e Ships\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is his most expansive and uplifting collection of music to date. Channelling everything from Tortoise to early 90s hip hop, it’s packed with poignant and funny slice-of-life vignettes touching on love, loss,  DIY coffins, cans on trains with strangers and so much more. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWritten in the wake of\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehis last album, 2020’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Bag Of Eyes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and road-tested while on tour with Lisa O’Neill around Ireland and the UK, the enthusiastic response of audiences to his new compositions convinced Seamus to enlist the help of a range of esteemed collaborators, old and new, to bring this latest collection of songs to life.   Recorded at studios in London, St Leonards-on-Sea and Margate and fine-tuned in his own home studio in Walthamstow, the list of collaborators includes string-arranger and multi-instrumentalist Emma Smith (Pulp, Beth Gibbons), drummers Chris Vatalaro (Anohni, Radiohead) and Aram Zarikian (Grasscut), and horns player Joe Auckland (Madness, Oasis), Additional production and engineering comes from by Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno, Jon Hopkins) and Mike Lindsay (Tunng, Lump). Abrahams also mixed the album. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"block-yui_3_17_2_1_1764062078647_33048\" data-sqsp-block=\"text\" data-block-type=\"2\" class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-sqsp-text-block-content=\"\" class=\"sqs-html-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eSeamus’s new album \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eShips\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e begins with \u003cstrong\u003e‘Come Down To The Square’\u003c\/strong\u003e, an urbanite distant cousin of his earliest pastoral songs, rooted not in found sounds from the Irish countryside, but the babble and buzz of central Walthamstow, complete with God-fearing street preachers and impassioned stall holders, all set to a backdrop of droning synth and chiming banjo. Motorik-folk fusion \u003cstrong\u003e‘Fire’\u003c\/strong\u003e revisits a clutch of old verses found buried in a phone and dismissed in the moment for being \u003cem\u003e“too simple and honest”\u003c\/em\u003e before being reignited by an unlikely combination of instruments from Moog synthesiser to tin whistle, masterfully turning something that\u003cem\u003e “started out a bit introspective,” \u003c\/em\u003esays Seamus,\u003cem\u003e “into something quietly inspirational”. \u003c\/em\u003eThe album’s title track and emotional centrepiece \u003cstrong\u003e‘Ships’ \u003c\/strong\u003etakes its unabashedly romantic chorus from a Tracy Emin neon artwork on Margate harbour, and sails on a breeze of sweeping, delicately detailed progressive pop worthy of prime Brian Wilson. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eA dolorously funny spoken word lament set to queasily de-tuned guitar chords and wheezing synths (and Cillian Murphy’s favourite Seamus Fogarty song) \u003cstrong\u003e‘They Recognised Him’ \u003c\/strong\u003epreviously appeared on the \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eHee Haw\u003c\/em\u003e EP\u003c\/strong\u003e,\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eand reappears here in remastered form (by Christian Wright at Abbey Road Studios). The woozy, waltzing  \u003cstrong\u003e‘Woking’ \u003c\/strong\u003etakes in a range of disparate influences from 19th century Russian novelist Ivan Goncharov to communal can-drinking on  trains with  elderly strangers and might just be the strangest song ever written about the Surrey town on the Southwestern Main Line. \u003cstrong\u003e‘The Last Days of Watchmaker Joe’\u003c\/strong\u003e, inspired by the curious story of a man who built his own coffin using no nails nor screws, is set to the ominous backdrop of Aram Zarikian’s relentless rhythms, Emma Smith’s squealing violas and Fogarty’s own guttural howling. “\u003cem\u003eI really needed to get that out of me,”\u003c\/em\u003e Seamus admits, \u003cem\u003e“I’m much calmer since.” \u003c\/em\u003eOf the final track, the album’s glorious crescendo ‘\u003cstrong\u003eDoer Undoer’\u003c\/strong\u003e, he\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003esays:\u003cem\u003e “I kind of wanted it to be a two-fingers to the doubters and to the doubt inside of myself.\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e“I think there’s a few miserable songs on there for sure – obligatory at this stage,” \u003c\/em\u003esays Seamus,\u003cem\u003e “but to my mind there’s something strangely uplifting about this collection, more so than anything I’ve released before. I know I have it better than most people but I still find it hard to persevere and keep going and that’s probably the main theme of the album. It’s honest in a way that my other albums haven’t always been, which is why I’m so sure it’s going to be a massive hit.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Good Vibes Neighbourhood Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57152279314814,"sku":null,"price":24.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/4032\/2968\/files\/ships-CD-cover-square-large_jpg.webp?v=1774196308","url":"https:\/\/goodvibesrecords.co\/products\/seamus-fogarty-ships-sunset-pink-lp","provider":"Good Vibes Neighbourhood Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}