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Simon Raymonde’s Snowbird to drop new LP
By Aly Barchi | Published on Thursday 7 November 2013
Bella Union boss and one-time Cocteau Twin Simon Raymonde is to release a new LP via his present band Snowbird, a collaboration with singer Stephanie Dosen.
So named because Raymond wrote it mostly at night, ‘moon’ features guest turns by Radiohead’s Philip Selway and Ed O’Brien, Eric Pulido and McKenzie Smith of Midlake, folk bard Jonathan Wilson and Laterns On The Lake’s Paul Gregory. The first single to rise from ‘moon’, which comes out in January 2014, is ‘Porcelain’:
“I never intended Cocteau Twins to be my last band, but frankly I wasn’t just going to jump back on any old nag just for the sake of it”, says Raymonde of Snowbird and his collaborations with Dosen.
“I think this is very much Stephanie’s record” he adds. “She’s a really special singer and I feel the simplicity of my music was the perfect backdrop for her stories and her incredible vocal arrangements. Stephanie was the first singer I had worked with since Elizabeth [Fraser of Cocteau Twins] that I had a real musical empathy with. She could do anything”.
