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Floral Image ‘Thieves’ – Video Premiere

FLORAL IMAGE’s ‘Thieves’ offers four minutes of acoustic blues-tinged chugging and is the first video from Deeper Down Meadowland, a brand new EP featuring three newies and four live versions of faves from the Gone Down Meadowland album

“Jerusalem is here and it’s brought to you by Mastercard. You may not like it, you definitely don’t need it but it is YOUR birth right. Flag, Flags and yep…you guessed it…more flags. Nothing says Britain ’25 more than single use tat flaying flaccid on a lamppost. Long have they reigned o’er us, smug with that knowing entitled grin you never knew you needed. Is it cosy up there in golden regalia? Does the champagne taste sweeter when in all of one’s periphery is poverty. Tell us how to feel and show us how to be. There may be a great beyond out there somewhere but keep the great beyond out of this country and definitely out of  reach of our souls. Britain ’25, same ol’ lies, same ol’ faces. Reject the Billionaire agenda. Here’s ‘Thieves’.” – Fergus Nolan (vox/guitars)

Deeper Down Meadowland 
Like a squirrel preparing its larder before winter, Floral Image proudly unveil their new EPDeeper Down Meadowland to see you through the dark days of winter. The same sessions that birthed their debut album proved a prosperous forage of musical inspiration and these songs were the hardy acorns for post-equinox feasting.
 
‘Thieves’ delivers four minutes of acoustic blues-tinged chugging; ‘On A Feeling’ douses eastern-inspired melodies over its rapturous rhythm and ‘Spiraline’ haunts with its ominous mood before releasing a cathartic crescendo of riffing that partners the introspective lyricism the band is known for. Live takes of four fan favourites from Gone Down Meadowland bring the EP to a close featuring a full eight-minute extension of ‘Tiergarten’, showcasing the groups indulgence for animate and dynamic progression.

Such is the notoriety of the Floral Image’s live tenacity, this November sees a ripe occasion for the more motorik-minded of psych aficionados as the band support Japanese kraut outfit Minami Deutsch on a full run of UK dates.

There is a mischief and daydream to the character ofFloral Image, the playful fraternity of band members Fergus Nolan (vocals, guitars), Jack Warner (vocals, keys), Matt Kennedy (bass guitar), Mitch Forsyth (drums, visuals), & Phil Whitton (guitars, visuals), preludes the ever-weaving textures they make together. It is an infrastructure that is unstructured; a flowing alchemy that bends and grows and shifts between light, dark, malaise, excitement. There are moments of head-down ferocity and, right there beside them, pools of pulsing wonderment. Fist and feather, hand in hand.

Track Listing
    1. Thieves
    2. On A Feeling
    3. Spiraline
    4. Burning 305 (Live)
    5. The Score (Live)
    6. Tiergarten (Live)
    7. Howling Dog Song (Live)

The Deeper Down Meadowland EP will be available digitally 21st November via Fuzz Club

Pre-order link for the EP – Floral Image

Stream link will be: floralimage.lnk.to/thieves
Order link for the Gone Down Meadowland album vinyl – Floral Image – Gone Down Meadowland – Fuzz Club

 

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