Pagan Wanderer Lu - Pockets In Shrouds EP + Internet Forever Remix

To wrap up an amazing 2009, Brainlove Records is to release a final EP by one the label's mainstays, Cardiff's Pagan Wanderer Lu.

The lead track is one of the closing trilogy of songs from Pagan Wanderer Lu's album "magnum opus" (Plan B Magazine) "Fight My Battles For Me".

"Pockets In Shrouds" is an acoustic folk song, on the very Christmassy subject of death. The song features Laura and David from PWL's sometime backing band The Volunteers, who add scratchy Dirty Three inspired violin, and angelic backing vocals. Piano, violin, plucked strings and pretty harmonies carve out an oblique and engrossing story.

"Pockets in Shrouds is a song about betrayal by someone who has died," explains Regan, "and how their death freezes all that went before into a narrative with a happy beginning, not so happy middle, and an ambiguous end. From the point of view of the person at the coffinside there's no more closure to be had, no reconciliation other than through the fantasy of bringing the person back. It is based on true events."

As part of the activity around "Fight My Battles For Me", Pagan Wanderer Lu recorded videos and live sessions to accompany each song on the record. For "Pockets In Shrouds", Pagan Wanderer Lu went to Tinkinswood Burial Chamber to record a live session out in the Welsh countryside. Watch live session video. The rest of the films are at PWL on Brainlove Records.

PWL also recorded some live sessions at the London's legendary Dreamtrak studio. An impromptu band was put together featuring Oli Horton from A Scholar & A Physician, Laura and Chris of Internet Forever, Will "Stairs To Korea" Vaughan, and John from Thee Oracle and Brainlove. Those sessions are included on the EP, along with an Internet Forever remix of "2.0///The Bridge Of Sighs".

Pagan Wanderer Lu will play his final live show of 2009 at the Brainlove Christmas Party this December 18th, at The George Tavern in Whitechapel, London. Joining him on the bill are Napoleon IIIrd, Stairs To Korea, Mat Riviere, A Scholar & A Physician and We Aeronauts.

A new album 'European Monsoon', is currently being mixed and mastered, and is set for release in Spring 2010.

"Such is the strength of this song and the four before it that it took me a good three weeks to reach the second half of the album... an unfamiliar yet encapsulating lyrical world" - Drowned In Sound

- Digital EP released on Monday - 14/12/09
- Includes Internet Forever Remix
- Two new b-sides & two Dreamtrak live sessions

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