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Sol 0 is our debut EP. Information about the songs can be found below. You can find the EP on all major online platforms. At times we sound a bit like Portishead covering The Flaming Lips if they were going through a bit of a Radiohead phase.
The name 'Sol 0' refers to the name of the first day a spacecraft spends on Mars. The EP was recorded mostly at home, but Brother Mars was recorded at Homegrown Studios in Larbert. People have said:
"The about sixteen minutes four track release drifts across the room leaving spectral traces in its wake. Each of the pieces on Sol Ø offer different textures, sometimes flowing with piano, other-times a thread of sound led by synthesis and electric guitar." - Emerging Indie Bands "Blue Flowers is a beautiful bouquet of beat driven soul from Scottish pop dreamers L-space. Equal amounts of funk and fortitude that is richly textured and emotionally available. How amazing would it be if this collective could be asked to score the next Bond theme?" - Diamond Deposits "The songs are somewhere between acoustic and ambient and are concerned with space, time and technology. Our favourite is “Blue Flowers” that sums up their sound in just one song; ambient pop, lost guitars, trip hop beats, dreamy vocals and a sad piano melody." - Indie Pop Ups "Brother Mars [is] a tender, wide-eyed song depicting wha it would be like emotionally to live on Mars. The vocal melodies and harmonies mesh wonderfully with the lyrics to create a real sense of wonder." - Independent Clauses |
Lyrics
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1. Blue Flowers
I wake and the sound of the morning hits me like a ton of bricks, and I hope when I look out the window there is no car in my drive. Maybe they've finally turned My furniture to bugs? Hear every time I drop And every time I rise. I rip up the skin of the carpet Looking for insect hidden there. Maybe I'm not that interesting, Much to my despair. Maybe my world and my friends Are not actually what they seem? What if the ears in the walls Are actually my friends? |
One of our favourite books is A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick. We wanted to write a song about the casual paranoia he described. The guitar and piano were written as accompaniments to a synth lead that didn't make the final cut. The bass was a last minute addition from Dickson Telfer- it really ties the song together (as a good rug does with a room).
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2. Mars
Mother Earth You don't grieve the fallen You don't miss the risen. Brother Mars Please give us a sunset Of a red to fill our hearts. And the river's running dry But I drink from my cup with no tear in my eye And we're never going home But when holding your hand there's no fear in my mind. I watch the sunrise on this new land I watch the sunrise on your shoulders. And there's some things we will miss Like whisky and dogs and the cold ocean spray But there's things we'll learn to love Like low-gravity sex and the red evening light. I watch the sunrise on this new land I watch the sunrise on your shoulders. |
We recorded this track at Homegrown Studios in Larbert. It was the last track to be finished for the EP. It's written from the perspective of the first colonists on Mars. It's loosely inspired by The Martian by Andy Weir, but really we wanted to try and imagine what it would be like to sit on Mars with a guitar and write a folk song about the things you miss and the things you're coming to accept.
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3. Escape v 4.1
You, dragged by the weight of your bones You, trapped by the wrap of your skin I float through wires I float through wires You, stuck at the surface of things You, blinded by noise and desire I float through wires I float through wires |
This was the first song we ever recorded together. Lily constructed the beat from scratch- layering up split second samples one by one. It is about an uploaded mind talking to humans about what it is like to be free of a body. It is glad to have escaped from its heavy meatbag.. The slightly offset vocals are supposed to be vaguely reminiscent of a hive mind. The piano is one of the first things Gordon wrote when he returned to music after a 10 year absence.
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4. So It Goes
Back from the world they told me, You are still alive Somewhere else in time. Time is like a mountain range, You are still alive Somewhere else in time. Unraveled cassette tape on the road, You are still alive Somewhere else in time. You used to play it every day, You are still alive Somewhere else in time. They take their timeline all at once Like swallowing a pill. |
Another of our favourite books is Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut. So It Goes is an ode to Trafalmadorians; 4th dimensional beings which live outside of time. We wrote and recorded this before the film Arrival was released, but the themes and feeling of the song are very similar to the movie. The piano was recorded in one take and with no metronome, so it slips in and out of time- much like the Trafalmadorians and Hexapods. The synths at the very end of the ambient section were a last minute addition and we feel like they bring the EP to a fitting close.
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