← more from
Nothing Fancy
We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

The Reader

by Ernold Same

supported by
Mike Joosse
Mike Joosse thumbnail
Mitch
Mitch thumbnail
/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      £3 GBP  or more

     

1.
The Reader 04:22
buy track
2.
The Horrors this Morning 04:52
buy track
3.
Together 02:40
buy track
4.
Living Thing 04:18
buy track
5.
Poor Me 05:03
buy track

about

Following on from Post Yoga, a whole project based around a keyboard bought in a charity shop for £4, the shape-shifting, Bristol-based DIY stalwart Chris Barrett (also Something Anorak & Pictures of Belgrade) broadens his scope with his latest project Ernold Same. Joined by producer and musician Connor Jones, there’s a breeziness to the tracks, warm, intricate productions unfold while synths, strings and loping, spacious guitar lines drift in and out, all a perfect setting for Barrett's woozy vocals.

Something of a restless creative, Barrett enjoys starting fresh with a new project, allowing him to approach each one with a fresh set of ideas, a new identity that isn't confined to that of the one before. With Ernold Same (taking its name from the Blur song) Barrett had a new set of songs he took into Connor Jones’s studio, eager to get his creative input in bringing them to fruition.

“Early on it became clear that it was a creative collaboration, and the songs were as much Connor's as they were mine. The dynamic worked well and we were really happy with what emerged, thus 'Ernold Same' was born.”

Once the tracks are recorded, Jones chips away at it, turning it into the song you finally hear, bringing a different creative approach to each song, something that Barrett finds fresh and exciting.

The spiralling debut single Living Thing finds Barrett ruminating on how transient “this life stuff is.”

'Living Thing' is about fleeting relationships, the ones that dissipate into nothing, that are resigned to the back pages of our mind and often forgotten about, and yet, in the moment feel so important. It's my way of writing a song about how transient this life stuff is.

Together waltzes over otherworldly synths and strings, dragging us into a turbulent relationship, with the couple eventually taking a step back and viewing it for what it really is, while the title track The Reader shimmies and shuffles around wonky guitar lines.

“It’s about a people pleaser, someone who always says yes to others and neglects their own needs. It is about the efforts they will go to feel accepted, the need to feel valued by others in order to feel worthy, and the exhausting pursuit of avoiding rejection.

How long Barrett will stay in this current iteration, only time will tell. But with Connor Jones and Ernold Same he is once again proving himself to be a unique and captivating performer and songwriter.

credits

released September 15, 2023

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Ernold Same image

Ernold Same Bristol, UK

contact / help

Contact Ernold Same

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Ernold Same, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Seafood Sam joins the show to discuss his newest album, " Standing On Giant Shoulders".
listen now