Earlier in the week we unveiled artwork by Rachael Perisho as part of our Quiet, Constant Friends project, but illustration and painting is far from the end of her talents. Perisho is also a multi-instrumentalist: a founding member of the dark folk band mumbledust (alongside Ryan McCardle) and a solo artist under the moniker Heavy Boots.
‘So Long’ is taken from Sister Lives, an EP released this summer on Furious Hooves. The song is a perfect example of the new, fleshed-out sound from Heavy Boots, helped by backing band Triathalon. Occupying a space between ambient folk, psychedelic rock and dream pop, ‘So Long’ is a melancholic late-summer jam for sunny days cut short by the encroaching winter. Coupled with the video, the song plays like hazy nostalgia dream, stitched together from threads of loss and joy and sorrow and bound by the overwhelming sensation of time passing. Indeed, the feeling is exacerbated as the track gains momentum through its runtime, the instruments growing more frantic and the memories blurring together, all the while haunted by a background whistle, like some eternal wind or the draught of passing ghosts.
You can buy Sister Lives now via all the usual digital places (iTunes, Amazon etc.) and also good old Bandcamp, including some rather lovely cassettes. 
