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Artist
SixToes
12+ albums
folkacousticfreak folkindielondon
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SixToes release The Morning After – Released 16th june 2014 – available to preorder here: http://sixtoes.bandcamp.com For SixToes, retreating to Norfolk from the city to record their second album wasn’t an act of escapism. Splitting their work between a barn there and the New Forest, The Morning After on the one hand is a record that built on the warmth of strings, acoustic guitars and other lush folk instrumentation; yet where their peers are sometimes content to push those ends to a tourist board image of Britain’s green and pleasant lands, London-based SixToes instead see the bleakness between the hills, revel in the darkness of the woods. Featuring breakout single ‘Low Guns’ – with vocals from Depeche Mode’s Dave Gahan – The Morning After has a bittersweet taste that suggests a coming of age, a loss of innocence. More stately and cinematic than the comparative playfulness of 2008 debut Trick Of The Night, SixToes have taken their city turmoil with them to East Anglia, with the group’s Ben Rogers saying of The Morning After “It’s the processing, lamentation, reconciling and celebration of many years of disparate relationships and experiences, living in London. The boy on the record’s cover with the white rabbit represents to me the edge of adolescence and the tipping point.” Songs deal in one on one relationships, making the most of break-ups, falling outs and, on ‘Hawthorns’ harrowing peak, deals with a daughter’s abusive relationship with first her father then spouse.
