Fish/Fowl/Flood Released Today

‘Fish / fowl / flood’ is the début release by Looking Glass, the name used by 23 year old Jim Wallis, also of London-based indie-rockers My Sad Captains. At the heart of this 8 song set are melodic, affecting songs fusing traditional, americana-tinged instrumentation with atmospheric samples and field recordings. The collection is released on Sounds eXPerience having previously had a very limited cassette-only release on an Italian label. Recorded at home in London and Lincoln, the album has a lo-fi charm and intimacy, perfect for whiling away the evenings sheltering from the Autumnal elements.

It’s available in the shop now!

Interview with Looking Glass aka Jim Wallis

We recently caught up with Jim Wallis, member of London pop rockers and also the artist behind the soothing folkatronica of Looking Glass.

SXP: Jim, you live in London but somehow ‘Fish, Fowl, Flood’ was released originally on a very limited Italian cassette only label… er, how did that come about, and what appealed to you about it?

Jim: Slightly paradoxically for a label that releases only on cassette, but not that surprisingly, it happened through the internet. A friend told me about the Best Kept Secret label, and I just added them on Myspace one time- they got in touch a couple of days later asking if I’d be interested in doing a tape, so it was pretty quick and easy really.

The Sounds So Far (2006 – 2007)

If digital formats are your thing we are selling a compilation of our earlier releases for just £2 at our digital store. That’s six tracks for just two squid!

This compilation features the digital versions of SXP 002 (The Scha La La’s), SXP 003 (Santa Dog) and SXP 004 (The Bridge Gang).

Order from here.

Free Download from Looking Glass

As a taster for the new release from Looking Glass you can download a taster from the album in the shape of Ah Ha La. The album Fish Fowl Flood will be released this coming Monday.

Looking Glass – Ah La Ha

Looking Glass – Album launch

Sounds Experience present:

Looking Glass album launch! @ The Wilmington, Angel – 20th October 2009 – £4 with flyer

‘Fish / fowl / flood’ is the début release by Looking Glass, the name used by 23 year old Jim Wallis, also of London-based indie-rockers My Sad Captains. At the heart of this 8 song set are melodic, affecting songs fusing traditional, americana-tinged instrumentation with atmospheric samples and field recordings.

The collection is released on Sounds eXPerience having previously had a very limited cassette-only release on an Italian label. Recorded at home in London and Lincoln, the album has a lo-fi charm and intimacy, perfect for whiling away the evenings sheltering from the Autumnal elements.

Jim has already featured as Looking Glass in session for Marc Riley, been interviewed for Tom Robinson’s BBC Introducing show on 6 music, received airplay from Steve Lamacq on Radio 2 and John Hillcock on XFM and with his MSC cohorts appeared at this year’s SXSW.

‘Fish / fowl / flood’ is released on October 19th and will be available from the Sounds eXPerience website, good indie record shops and digitally. The My Sad Captains’ début album, ‘Here and Elsewhere’, was released on Stolen Recordings in June this year.

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