Label: Spillage Fete Records – 010
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: UK
Released: 2025
Genre: Electronic, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Abstract, Lo-Fi, Ambient, Experimental
Scotland-based duo A Happy Return return with their third full-length offering to date - Hamewith. An impossibly cosy, intimate soundworld created with love, care and attention from all the family members in their seaside home. Each of the 300 have been individually painted by Aimée Henderson to initially be part of an art exhibition inside their house, now each copy is being divied up and is looking for a new home. A truly special project imbued with a unique level of detail. Our good friend and regular ANF scribe Jack Rollo says this..
''As we arrive at Hamewith there is a fire ticking in the grate. Mat has a record on, something gentle and scattered sounding. Aimée is organising things in her painting studio where they have fixed up a bed for us. Agnes is at a friend’s house but coming back soon. Perched over the sea at East Neuk it is a low stone house, battered by the wind and warmed by the pale sunshine. But more than a place, it is a space, a feeling, an approach to living and collaborating, a whole world.
A world that also spins here, on this vinyl record.
While we drink tea by the fire the conversation turns to moments of revelation. The way out of yourself and towards everyone and everything else via making and doing on a small scale in a small place. This shift in scale and conception is important to keep In mind while listening. This is music born out of a sort of homemade ecstatic.
Guitars hum and chime. Unidentifiable electronics swoop and splutter. Cassette tapes reused a hundred times stop and start again.
Miniature constructions of time and music pile up on a desk by the window. Aimée paints each cover differently from the last in a labour of love and concentration. Agnes tries out her makeup collection on Mat. Outside the sea shifts and the sky shines.
All in all Hamewith is a home and a collection of music. A trial run just to show us what might be possible. A maquette for a different way of making, thinking and listening'' - Jack Rollo
Three hundred record covers hand painted by Aimée Henderson.
(Mint / New - with free DL, printed insert and drawn postcard - 1 per customer / shops pls ask for wholesale)
TRACKLIST
A1 Light I Learn
A2 Way Station
A3 Knotted
A4 Like No Other Star
A5 Milk Song
A6 Diurnal Amor
A7 Umbel
A8 Feathers Be
B1 Light Laughs the Breeze
B2 Buoyancy
B3 Steady Or Dance
B4 Bonfires
B5 Particles
B6 Talking Flower
B7 Fana Song
B8 Hamewith
