{"id":16288,"date":"2014-10-22T16:18:02","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T15:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centmagazine.co.uk\/?p=16288"},"modified":"2014-10-30T12:51:34","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T11:51:34","slug":"music-and-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/?p=16288","title":{"rendered":"Music and Words"},"content":{"rendered":"

Creative collaborations at its finest comes from a musician and an illustrator, who happen to share a love of darkness and despair.<\/p>\n

Blending the words and wisdom of visual artist David Shrigley who is no stranger to Cent, having contributed to our ‘Sense of Purpose’ issue. And the authentic musicianship of songwriter and Arab Strap co-founder\u00a0<\/span>Malcolm Middleton<\/span>, the pair\u2019s absurd humorous and stark delivery is perfectly captured on ‘Music And Words’ – a special collaboration album including darkness, pathos, despair; and all the other existential things.<\/p>\n

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Featuring the vocals and mimicry talent of comic actor Gavin Mitchell, the transatlantic tones of Californian friend Scott Vermeire, actor Bridget McCann and David Shrigley himself, the album was born in lieu of payment after Shrigley created artwork for\u00a0<\/span>Middleton<\/span>\u2019s ‘A Brighter Beat’ album \u201cI loved all the music\u00a0<\/span>Malcolm<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>made,\u201d says Shrigley. \u201cWe have similar sensibilities; we\u2019re both into darkness, pathos, despair; existential things. It was just what I wanted, even though I didn’t really know what I wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Story Time\u2019 is the first track we hear off of the new album and boasts humor as black as the lines of Shrigley\u2019s drawings. \u201cIt\u2019s the song that started it all,\u201d\u00a0<\/span>Middleton <\/span>recalls. \u201cFunny, disturbing, and then a bit more disturbing. It’s a beautiful song, not just a cheap shock,\u201d he says, affirming the album\u2019s subjective nature. But gathering source material for the pair\u2019s mordant style isn’t something to have happened overnight as Malcolm wrote the first pieces of music back in 2007 so all in all the album has taken roughly 7 years to make.\"WEBMalcDavidPressPic\"<\/p>\n

Malcolm<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Middleton<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>will host ‘Twice! Two Nights At Tuts’ this December, which is pretty self explanatory – two gigs at Kings Tuts in Glasgow with\u00a0<\/span>Saturday 13th December<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>a full band show and Sunday 14th an acoustic one.<\/p>\n

Also this winter will see the umpteenth book by David Shrigley. ‘Weak Messages Create Bad Situations’ is a sort of manifesto about graphic art amongst other things. It is a big heavy book and can be used to press flowers or kill insects.<\/p>\n

There will be a limited vinyl run of 1000 12\u201ds, each with individual artwork by David Shrigley.<\/p>\n