Cosmo Sheldrake announces his second studio album, Eye to the Ear

The album was produced by Cosmo and mixed by Dilip Harris (King Krule, Micachu, Mount Kimbie) and features twenty-one tracks combining traditional instrumentation, electronic production, and field recordings.

On the announcement Cosmo says, “I am incredibly excited to share some of the music from my new album ‘Eye to the Ear’. It has been a wild journey to piece it all together over the last five years. Today I’m sharing the opening and final songs of the album together. The first is "Stop the Music", which I wrote after learning about the extraordinary adventures of an ancestor of mine who had been a pickle and condiment maker. The song slowly fermented, and is now a celebratory stomp exploring themes of consumption, excess, madness, and the possibility of transformation."

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"The final song on the album is called "Does the Swallow Dream of Flying" which I wrote in a solar powered studio in a shed in Dorset," he continues. "Here, I try to imagine the world from the perspective of other beings, including a bird, a flower, a river, and the wind. It also features the wonderful vocal ensemble Howl. I am so grateful to all the people, places, creatures, plants, fungi, and sounds that have helped to bring this music into being."

Eye to the Ear is the follow-up to Cosmo Sheldrake's first full length album, The Much Much How How and I (2018).

Tracklist:

1. Gnort Or Gnortle
2. Stop The Music
3. Marvellous Clouds
4. I Did And I Don't And I Do
5. Old Ocean
6. By Being With You
7. I Stitched My Mind Back To My Body
8. The Feet Are The Link
9. Half Past Three
10. I To The Maybe Go
11. Tea For Seventeen
12. Breathe Round Corners
13. Run
14. But Once A Child
15. Shiny Is The View
16. The Snapping Of Shrimp
17. More Than A Mountain
18. Lichens
19. Flora's Pond
20. Interdimensional
21. Does The Swallow Dream Of Flying