Somewhere Between Gotts Street Park

• 1 Wake Me Up 03:03
• 2 Flowers 03:25
• 3 Nico's Theme 02:47
• 4 Some Birds Don't Fly 03:26
• 5 Shape Of America 03:29
• 6 Easy 04:44
• 7 Lay Low 02:28
• 8 Below The Water 02:58
• 9 Don't Give Up 04:27
• 10 Slippy 02:31
• 11 Going Home 03:08
• Total Runtime 36:26

Info for Somewhere Between

3 years after their critically acclaimed album ‘On The Inside’, Gotts Street Park come back with their new album ‘Somewhere Between’, featuring Celeste, Matt Maltese, Rosie Lowe, Pip Millett, Sofia and the Antoinettes, anaiis and Olive Jones.

A departure from their previous work, the new record draws on richly emotional folk and Americana, with Blaze Foley, Jessica Pratt and Big Thief on heavy rotation around the time of its recording. The result combines their production prowess with even greater warmth than before, as they draw on classic songwriting alongside an exceptional roster of guest vocalists.

They channelled their analogue values into the modern Americana style of the record. There was no big conversation about their new direction, but they were all listening to that type of music, with Josh mainlining Neil Young and other “early ’70s stuff” too.

For ‘Somewhere Between’, they got together in a room with their featured vocalists and created magic, as the singers conjured their own lyrics after tuning into the trio’s music. “Writing with GSP is always a pleasurable experience,” says Rosie Lowe. “The music is so emotive that songs seem to flow with ease.”

Speaking further on the origin behind the album’s title and ethos, the band said: “The title only arrived once the album was finished, and it means something slightly different to each of us. For me, it reflects the space that collaboration creates, a place where our individual lives, moods and experiences overlap for a while to make something together. We’re all arriving from different places, but in the studio those separate worlds meet. There’s something about making music that feels like stepping into a space between the tangible and the intangible, where ideas seem to come from somewhere beyond ourselves. In many ways, that’s what this album represents: meeting somewhere between who we are individually and what we can create together”

Josh Crocker, bass
Tom Henry, keyboards, piano, organ
Joe Harris, guitar
Adam Nicolle, drums, percussion
Guests:
Celeste, vocal (track 6)
Matt Maltese, vocal (track 4)
Pip Millett, vocal (track 2)
Rosie Lowe, vocal (track 8)
anaiis, vocal (track 9)
Olive Jones, vocal (track 1)
Sofia & The Antoinettes, vocal (track 5)

Gotts Street Park
The Leeds-based trio, comprised of producer/writers Josh Crocker (bass, production), Tom Henry (keys) and Joe Harris (guitar), met through Leeds flourishing live music circuit, playing in and around local bands and venues.

Individually, they have produced and written for the likes of Kali Uchis, Yellow Days, Celeste and Mabel. Combining on their shared love for “The idea of doing things live in one room”, the creation and recording of a song – a group of players walking into a room with nothing, and exiting with something life-altering – still, after 70-odd years of pop music, retains unrivalled magic.

The approach is a deliberate callback to the methods made famous by legendary studios like Sun and Stax in Memphis, or FAME and Muscle Shoals in Alabama, and their in-house bands.

Combined also with a shared love of movie soundtracks and film scores, Gotts Street Park are taking these ideas and techniques forward. Giving them a modern feel and texture, whilst collaborating with some of the most exciting new vocalists out there.

This album contains no booklet.