Mother's Ruin/ Prancing Pearl (reissued single)

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	1.	Mothers Ruin 04:24		buy track
	2.	Prancing Pearl 03:31		buy track

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Mothers Ruin lifted a pervasive alarm clock motif from Bomb the Bass with a bassy nod towards Talking Heads and Prancing Pearl drew especially from our love of ESG, Electrelane and Basic Channel.

These two existential-road-safety themed songs were paired on this record, with Matthew penning lyrics for Mother's Ruin (Nina adding the song title) and Nina coming up with Prancing Pearl words to fit with a no-wave disco jam the band had been working on, as they moved out of the bedroom into the indie-disco following the 2006 album.

Thanks to Aaron Sewards for the beautiful sleeve illustration and to Steve Brett and Stitch-Stitch Records for releasing it.

www.bristolcontemporaryart.com/aaron-sewards.html
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOuZXqQls3o&t=135s
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released October 21, 2019

The players on this record were Tom Kirton, Liam Kirby, Nina Wyllie, Rosalind Leyden, George Mackenzie, Matthew Cheney, Kasper Lurcock. It was recorded at the Cube Cinema and mastered by Ill Spectre.

Mother's Ruin: Lyrics by M Cheney and N Wyllie, music by Arctic Circle
Prancing Pearl: Lyrics by N Wyllie, music by Arctic Circle

Some of the band then went on to play in this band:
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arctic circle Bristol, UK

Band involving various line-ups running from the late 1990s until 2011, firstly based in Scotland, then in Bristol, UK

Longer bio at cloudberry records blog:
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