Blog: music like dirt

Last year James Mathe aka Barbarossa decamped to the Analogue Catalogue studio in the hills outside Manchester to record the follow-up to  20072s " Chemical Campfires ".  Exclusively using analogue kit (Casio keyboards, vintage synths and old drum machines) and with Adem of " Homesongs " fame at the production helm we're now seeing the first fruits of that labour. "Butterfly Plague " arrives on June 12th as part of Fence Records Chart Ruse series ( preorder ). The video marks the directorial debut of actor, film-maker and James' partner, Montserrat Lombard.  To [...]