ANOTHER SKY RELEASE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED DEBUT ALBUM ‘I SLEPT ON THE FLOOR’
OUT NOW VIA FICTION RECORDS, STREAM HERE
PERFORMING A VIRTUAL ‘IN-STORE’ @ BANQUET RECORDS, 13TH AUGUST
WINTER UK TOUR ON SALE NOW
Since the release of their debut single in 2018, Another Sky have flawlessly merged hard-hitting, difficult topics with unparalleled cinematic sounds through a series of singles and EPs, stunning festival audiences across the world, fans at their headline shows across the UK including last year’s London’s Village Underground, and those watching their appearance on Later With Jools Holland alike.
Another Sky’s debut album proves to the world just how vital the words of lyricist and vocalist Catrin Vincent truly are. Her poetic rage has been titular in Another Sky’s story, grappling with the topics of toxic relationships, childhood trauma, systematic elitism, Brexit Britain, the rise of Donald Trump and much more. Juxtaposed against the horizon reaching sound of guitarist Jack Gilbert, bassist Naomi Le Dune and drummer Max Doohan, Another Sky sound like nothing and nobody else. Yet the exciting part? This really is just the beginning.
Later this year, the band will be hitting the road across the UK, including a recently announced headline show in London at EartH for 11th November 2020. Tickets are on sale now, full run of dates below.
On Thursday 13th August at 7pm, Catrin and Jack will be performing a virtual in-store from the Banquet Records shop via Zoom, more info here.
‘I Slept On The Floor’ is available here. The album is available in the below formats, with special bundles offered via the band’s store.
-Standard Vinyl
-Mintpack CD
Album Tracklisting
- How Long?
- Fell In Love With The City
- Brave Face
- Riverbed
- The Cracks
- I Slept On The Floor
- Life Was Coming In Through The Blinds
- Tree
- Avalanche
- Let Us Be Broken
- All Ends
- Only Rain
11th November – EartH, London
19th November – Think Tank, Newcastle
20th November – King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow
21st November – Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds
26th November – The Bullingdon, Oxford
27th November – Star & Garter, Manchester
28th November– The Sunflower Lounge, Birmingham
3rd December – The Hope & Ruin, Brighton
4th December – Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff
5th December – The Louisiana, Bristol
A statement from Catrin on “I Slept On The Floor”:
“People say I sound like a man. Maybe that means they’ll listen.
‘I Slept On The Floor’ is an amalgamation of the ever-shifting life I have shared with Another Sky over the last six years, searching for resolution between my hometown-self and the self a new city brought me. It was why in 2017, at St. Pancras Church, Another Sky performed in the dark as silhouettes, big illuminated circles behind each of us.
People left asking if the singer was a woman or a man. I wanted to ask why it mattered.
I wanted the band to be a mirror, reflecting the darkness back at itself. I thought I had found myself in that darkness.
I grew up in a white picket fence town with a fear of beds, preferring to sleep on the floors of bathrooms in case I got sick at night. My anxiety was so suppressed, so unacknowledged by my environment that my body broke to get my attention. I became very unwell. My body tried to tell me, “you can’t mould yourself into their ideal,” but I didn’t know there was an alternative. I was malleable soil instead, filling a vase, growing into a shape I couldn’t see.
You can’t see the walls around you if they look like the edges of the Universe.
In 2013, I moved to London and thought I’d found a bigger, better vase. Suddenly I was exploding into a world of a million possibilities, but rather than finding myself bursting at the seams, I couldn’t find the edges of myself at all.
Just as my hometown had shaped me, so did London begin to. Among the rising rents and an increasingly hostile political landscape, the pressure to define my limits grew. The world didn’t stop breaking me down just because I had moved on from the confines of my childhood.
I Slept On The Floor documents the childhood rejection we carry with us into adulthood. This album is about only understanding a place once you’ve left it.”
