Elaine Howley - The Distance Between Heart And MouthTouch Sensitive Records proudly presents the Cork based musician Elaine Howleys debut solo album The Distance Between Heart and Mouth. The product of an audio diary kept on a 4 track cassette machine throughout 2019 and 2020, the album recreates the intimacy of a radio show filled with Howleys favourite sounds, palettes, and textures; effortlessly joining the dots between pop and experimentation, summoning the kaleidoscopic world of Trish Keenan &

which harkens back to the gritty neo-garage rock of Murder City Devils

It all carried itself naturally and instinctively with melody coming first and then structure later

In the vein of TEARS FOR FEARS or more adventurous DAVID BOWIE stuff

Twangy lead guitar

or light rose coloured vinyl

"[Shannon] Shaw and [Cody] Blanchard have learned how to disassemble the parts and rebuild them in a way that sounds both classic and wild at the same time

since he was the head of the company

via Rock is Hell / Forte in the UK / Rock is Hell in Eu and Rock is Hell / Midheaven in the USA

Hat Hut's first release

it transforms “difficult second album” clichés into a thing of glorious contrasts: a second-album surge of up-close

with lots of acoustic guitar and dreamy interludes to shame more-era Pink Floyd

Roman Candle was Elliott Smith's first solo album (Even though he was still a singer and guitarist for the band Heatmiser) and was originally released in 1994