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Our new record is coming out next week (so soon now!) and the beloved National Public Radio are streaming it in full NOW.

Listen here on NPR.org.

(Don’t forget you can order the record HERE)

So today we were scheduled to go play Shiny Things in all it’s glory on a BBC Radio 4 panel show hosted by Clive Anderson and guesting that Murray guy from Flight Of The Conchords. We realised about an hour before we had to be there that all of our equipment was locked up in storage and wouldn’t be open until after the show. There ensued a frantic hour of phone calls and text messages trying to cobble together enough instruments to play a song of some sort.

I've been reading about Lake Vostok, which lies underneath the surface of Antarctica and is believed to be a million years old. The idea of a lake hidden beneath four kilometres of ice is just mind blowing. I would love to write a song about that." So said Simon in an interview published almost two years to the day. The idea germinated into "Vostok, I Know You Are Waiting" which was performed just the once, aptly, in Iceland two summers ago, and recorded in Wales in spring of last year. It's hard to fathom a pristine, freshwater lake, that has lain undisturbed for 15 million years.