Lies Damned LiesAfter VirtueGUMCD50 A new album of songs recorded at the band's Edinburgh studio and mixed/mastered by Calum Malcolm, the producer behind the wonderful albums by The Blue Nile.
Lies Damned Lies Last Place on the Map GUMCD42 "Surfacing every few years, the Lies offer sparse, fluid, folky songs, usually with a spiritual, meditative dimension. But, rather than producing an Enya-like snoozefest, the ageless results betray the fundamental influence of John Martyn, sharing his lack of concern for engaging with musical fashions." -The Scotsman
Lies Damned Lies As I Went Down GUMCD46 Extended instrumental explorations of beauty and yearning, inspired by biblical references to prayer. Intended for group or individual meditation. Five long tracks.
Lies Damned Lies Lamentations GUMCD32 "A strange, mysterious, ceremonious feel... burrowing deep into the mind with their understated, unhurried music that is inspired" - Rock and Reel "LDL are about creating space and their sound is created to give shape to the silence and substance to the emptiness" - The Irish Times
Lies Damned Lies The Human Dress GUMCD22 A Lies Damned Lies acoustic gig, recorded in Glasgow in the summer of 1992. Space, harmonies and even a touch of William Blake. 11 songs of commitment in adversity. "It takes a rare grace to fashion the melancholia of failed relationships into an object of burnished, elegiac beauty...songs that slow-burn their sulphurous tears onto your consciousness the way Talk Talk and The Blue Nile once did." - Melody Maker
Lies Damned Lies Flying Kites GUMCD16 "At its sparsest, Flying Kites is hardly even an idea, more a vague mood, such is the capacious ambience on display" - VOX "Flying Kites is a unique and flawlessly poignant piece....the lush textured instrumentation and the matter of fact intimacy of the vocals sweep you up and draw you in - there are no barriers between singer and listener; they breathe the same deep sighs together." M8 MAGAZINE
Juliet Turner Let's Hear It For PizzaGUMCD34 Juliet's magnificent debut album recorded in two days in 1996. The first demonstration of her songwriting gift, this collection captures an outpouring of raw talent and universal insight. "Nothing about her sounds out of date because she writes with excrutiating honesty....a sensitvity to lyrical diction and a poetic turn of phrase....well tuned irony and humorous self-deprecation put the icing on the cake." Hot Press
Steve Butler 14.iv.05 GUMCD49 Steve Butler, recorded solo in Edinburgh, in April 2005. Over an hour of intimate acoustic versions of songs from the solo albums as well as one or two from the LDL catalogue.
Steve Butler ClearGUMCD47 A new album of original and covered songs, continuing in the singer-songwriter tradition of musing melodically on the stuff of life. The line up of musical guests is much as for the 'Love Come Down' album - with the addition of Suzanne Adam on harmony vocal and violin. The album includes three cover versions: Jackson Browne's 'Alive in the World', Tom Waits' 'Take it with me' and Karla Bonoff's 'Lose Again'. Unfussy 'band in a room' arrangements, pared back to the life-essentials of engaging lyrics and memorable melodies.
Steve Butler Love Come Down GUMCD37 Solo album of love and longing from Sticky/LDL frontman. "Very enjoyable too...lurking in that artistic territory which was pegged out by the likes of Jackson Browne, Bruces Cockburn and Hornsby and other acceptable faces of singer songwriterdom." The Scotsman "Butler is a class act and his first solo album in twenty years has quality written all over it’s nine songs...The voice is deep and rich and vulnerable. The poetry is inventive and deeply spiritual....The piano playing is beautiful....an album full of one liners that will have you pondering for some time." Steve Stockman BBC Ulster
Iain Archer Crazy Bird GUMCD33 A collection of ten endearing songs recorded in 1996 with the compelling intimacy of purely acoustic arrangements. "A Bob Dylan for the 90's - yes please!" Guitarist Magazine "Gently up music for the gently downhearted" Q
Iain Archer Playing Dead GUMCD26 Iain's magnificent 1995 debut. Ten quality songs that stand the test of time. The single 'Wishing' was record of the week on Simon Mayo's Radio One Breakfast Show. Unforgettable melodies and acoustic playing, woven together with lush band arrangements. A Sticky 'must-have'.
Billy Penn's Brother Ruckus in Real Time GUMCD18 Richard Nicholson's third solo album. Never afraid to look on life's darker side, Nicholson's poetry swims headlong into the unconscious dredging up images of breakdown and loss. "Perhaps our favourite moment as producers" Dot Reid. "Just the right amount of sleaze for these unsettling yet strangely compelling songs" Rock 'n' Reel
