Band of the Week: Castles

Beecher frontman Ed Godby is back and we're streaming his new band's debut album! Go us!

Posted Monday, 9 January 2012 in

Later this month Castles drop their belting debut album 'You, The Organ Grinder', but we've got a stream of it for you RIGHT NOW!

Keep reading for Ed's introduction to the record and may we suggest you visit this link and pre-order your copy of the record today. Ed, over to you...

"The songs that make up ' You, The Organ Grinder,' were written over a 12 month period between June 2010 and June 2011. In musical terms, the three of us did not have a crystal clear idea of what we wanted to make, and so Castles emerged in quite an organic manner. We weren't forcing ideas to adhere to a certain trend, we just played what seemed to come naturally. I think this is evident on the record, in both the songs and the way that it sounds. Chris Fielding captured the moment brilliantly. It was all recorded in a very 'live' fashion.

The title comes from a painting by L.S Lowry. It's a painting that I love, and it reminds me of a place that I love. It's fair to say that the album was lyrically influenced by the idea of being socially marginalised, ridiculed in a sense; seen as an outcast. It's a topic that I was toying with around the time of writing, probably because I was getting used to life in a different country, and being immersed in a foreign culture. Not to say that I felt marginalised, but I had the opportunity to imagine what that might be like to some extent. Of course, that's not the sole subject matter of the piece, but certainly an underlying theme.

We hope you like it as much as we do."

For more head to castlesband.net, for more incredible new music check out the Exposure section in Rock Sound each month!