Glas­gow musi­cians Kim Grant of Rav­eloe and Simon Lid­dell of Olympic Swim­mers / Fright­ened Rab­bit have formed a new col­lab­o­ra­tive project called Dove­tailed. And their new num­ber called Kethers fea­tures drum­ming and gui­tar from Jon­ny Scott (Chvrch­es)

Dove­tailed’s sound is giv­en its full­ness by Kim’s rich vocals that suf­fuse the track with a shim­mery, dream pop vibe, togeth­er with sooth­ing, rip­pling gui­tars that recall Slow­dive. The bridge takes the lis­ten­er into a fur­ther realm with what fea­tures what sound like woozy bag­pipes. The duo’s oth­er track avail­able to stream is Kitchen, anoth­er beau­ti­ful­ly del­i­cate and atmos­pher­ic number.

Kim had this to say about Kethers: “After the open­ing line acknowl­edges a change and a growth the rest of the track is some­thing like a patch­work of mem­o­ry, a reflec­tion on what’s been. The ‘it feels pur­ple’ line is actu­al­ly about when I had to get anaes­the­sia as a child and I remem­ber it was like all my sens­es became the colour pur­ple. The song itself is prob­a­bly our most live-band-sound­ing song. It was a lot of fun lay­ing the lay­ers of over­driv­en gui­tar in the bridge, where myself, Simon and Jon­ny all had a go at putting down a riff and end­ed up keep­ing them all in.”

Kethers is released as part of Lost Map’s PostMap Club sub­scrip­tion ser­vice in the month of July, as well as via stream­ing ser­vices, it’s the lat­est taste of the duo’s debut EP. Released on lim­it­ed-edi­tion cas­sette in May, it fea­tures two tape-exclu­sive tracks, togeth­er with the band’s debut sin­gle ‘Kitchen’. 

Dove­tailed live:

Sun, Jul 12 @ Home Bar, Edin­burgh (w/ Faith Elliot + Quit­ter)
Thu, Aug 6 @ Pit­ten­ween Arts Fes­ti­val, Church Hall James St., Pit­ten­weem (sup­port­ing Kathryn Joseph) 
Sat, Aug 15 @ Inter­est­ing Things Fes­ti­val, The Tol­booth, Stirling

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