Native Harrow – new album and in-store tour

Native Harrow

Native Harrow have today released their critically acclaimed new album Old Kind Of Magic on Loose Music. The duo of married couple Stephen Harms and Devin Tuel are launching the album with an instore tour, including an acoustic performance and signing, starting tonight at Rough Trade West at 6pm, tickets here.

Old Kind of Magic is the fifth long-player from Native Harrow and arrives two years after they left Pennsylvania for a new life in Sussex. It is in this new place that the duo self-produced a work that is simultaneously their most sweepingly expansive and delicately intimate album to date. The songs on Old Kind Of Magic move dramatically from the opening field recording of the Brighton seaside, to Laurel Canyon-esque folk-rock, piano and Rhodes-tinged soul-jazz balladry, oud and harpsichord driven 60s technicolour psychedelia, dense modernistic string quartet writing, and wide-as-the-western skies panoramic pedal steel with sepia-toned 12-string.

As the writing and recording of the album came to a close, the couple moved from Brighton to rural Sussex and a familiar bucolic life. They enlisted Alex Hall (their collaborator for 2019’s Happier Now and 2020’s Closeness) to add his signature drums and percussion throughout, along with an incendiary piano part on ‘Used To Be Free’. Joe Harvey-Whyte added his celestial pedal steel to ‘Heart Of Love’ and ‘I Remember’ and violinist Georgina Leach layered a one-woman string section over ‘As It Goes’ and a galvanising quartet on ‘Long Long Road’. Mixing was completed by Hall at Reliable Recorders in Chicago, IL and the record was mastered by Guy Davie at Electric Mastering in London.

Artists’ website: www.nativeharrow.com

‘Old Kind Of Magic’ – live:

Tour Dates

October 28          Rough Trade West, London @ 6pm
October 29          Union Music Store, Lewes @ 2pm
November 1        David’s Music, Letchworth @ 6pm
November 2        Truck Records, Oxford @ 6pm
November 3        Jumbo Records, Leeds @ 6pm
November 4        Spinning Discs, Sheffield @ 6pm
November 5        Vinyl Tap, Huddersfield @ 2pm
November 6        Jacaranda, Liverpool @ 5:30pm
November 17      Eel Pie Records, Twickenham @ 6pm
November 18      Sound Knowledge, Marlborough @ 7pm
November 19      Hundred Records, Romsey @ 2pm
November 20      Vinilo Record Store, Southampton @ 6pm
November 21      Pie & Vinyl, Southsea @ 1pm

 


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