‘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. 

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Their latest release, J.C., is a four song EP with lyrics adpated from ‘Expecting to be Loved for Nothing’, a book of poetry by Jake Core (hence the title initials). This is slow atmospheric music that reminds me a bit of Arrange in the way the vocals unfurl over the ethereal instrumental arrangements, giving something that is otherworldly yet fundamentaly personal, a paradox comparable to daydreaming in an empty room.

You can buy the EP in various formats through Bandcamp. Check out more Why Don’t you Believe Me? artists on this sampler.

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My favourite EP of his, ‘Surrender To Summer’ is a hazy slice of ambient pop finished off with Scott’s distinctively Scottish voice.

Get some more of his release, inlcuding a new song ‘No Homo: A Protest Song’ (featuring Sepp Blatter as artwork), visit his Bandcamp page.

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