Older Lover EP Older Lover

"The Older Lover is black of heart and forked of tongue. He'll steal your youth, he'll tear your drum. He played guitar with thee brigands Mother and the Addicts and was known for his filthy electric scree and mellifluous twang, but is playing away from home now, darkening doorways. Billowing coattails. Shadow. Hot breath. Flash of Knives..." Glasgow-based visual artist and musician (Mother and the Addicts, Big Ned) Douglas James Morland's solo guise as Older Lover is a smoky, noirish take on psychedelia with glam stylings and dub sonics thrown in for good measure. Both the cinema of the silent-screen villain, with its flickering silhouettes and sinister, magical lustre, and the spooky hold on the imagination of the pulsing, saturated analogue signals of the immediately pre-digital, cold war period, are as much influences as any musical genre, past or present. Recorded and produced with a nod to the grain and patina of these past eras, via the homemade waywardness of Swell Maps or The Homosexuals, the Older Lover EP is an astute and compelling exercise in dark and seductive rock n roll. Out of the dark, swampy shadows and into the darker, sweaty backroom of scuz….