Mitchell Museum – Glasshouse Emulator (Track Premiere)

Feature by Music Team | 23 May 2017

Glasgow’s Mitchell Museum return after a six-year hiatus with their second album Everett Trap – a self-reflective cornucopia of soundscapes, maniacal poetic lyricism and curbed exuberance. It was the breakdown of lead singer and songwriter Cammy MacFarlane’s relationship with his long-term girlfriend and friend of 20 years, which inspired the songwriting behind the new album.

Mended in their brokenness, ever influenced by their past and reinvigorated by their present, and after going through five guitarists in as many years, Mitchell Museum are now set as a three-piece. To celebrate the upcoming release of Everett Trap, the band have made their debut album The Peters Port Memorial Service available for free download via their Bandcamp page until 25 May, so get it while you can!

Back to the new music now! We've been lucky enough to get our mitts on a stream of Glasshouse Emulator from the new album and are delighted to be premiering it in the player below. MacFarlane tells us: “I’d written the demo for this song after playing a gig that went horribly wrong in a very cool venue in London. The first line ‘So you didn’t make the hipster list’ is a reference to the fact that I felt worried that the other bands we were playing with that night would think that we were a bunch of losers.

“We went on stage, suffered a whole load of technical problems with the sound and the crowd totally stopped paying attention to what was going on. That was a very very very long 40 minute set. When I got home I thought I’d try and write a song about it but I wanted to try and make a song that was a bit upbeat rather than a big moan-fest.”

Everett Trap is released on 26 May – pre-order here . Mitchell Museum play The Glad Cafe, Glasgow, 16 Jun.

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