The Declining Winter Official World Cup Theme 2010

Have a sneak preview listen here




Pre-order your limited edition CD version with exclusive tracks, postcard souvenir and more goodies . £3.49 plus postage. click HERE to buy


Probably one of our more madcap ideas of recent years is to write and record a World Cup song for this summers competition. Produced by Choque Hosein, it features the theme itself backed with a new version of 'Red Kite' which originally appeared on the compilation 'Music and Migration' earlier this year.

There will also be an instrumental version of the World Cup song so you can sing along at home. We will be doing a collector pleasing limited CD run on Home Assembly Music which comes with exclusive numbered postcard and other collectibles.

Gareth S Brown

Our long serving keyboard/bass player and all round good egg Gareth S Brown has uploaded a new website which is well worth a look. As well as documenting his musical endavours theres information of his wide ranging extra curricular activities.
Have a browse here

Later this same summer.............

"scenes from the back bedroom window"

due late summer. a four song, three inch compact disc on italy's secret furry hole label. they've previously put things out by hauschka, glen johnson (piano magic), simon scott and peter broderick so we are very pleased to be involved.

.....some words from the label......

"we're also working on a new astounding DECLINING WINTER 3" cd-r. tunes are here. tracklist done. mastering done. release date to be confirmed (late june, we guess). audio preview will be up soon. still designing artwork... "

Goodbye Minnesota at Jumbo and elsewhere

The vinyl edition of 'Goodbye Minnesota' is now available from Jumbo in Leeds, Road Records in Dublin, Monorail in Glasgow and Linus in Japan. We're trying to sort out a domestic US shop/distributor. More news shortly we hope......

Buried Structure

Saw this on the main A66 trunk road from Penrith to Keswick in the Lake District. What does it all mean?

Studio Mess

What a mess! How can I work in these conditions? The simple answer is I can't. Therefore the studio is getting its much delayed upgrade/three yearly tidy.

Urban Explorers Festival

Thanks to all those who bought the 'Goodbye Minnesota' vinyl. They are still pouring out & we hope to have a few more shops selling them soon.

The next piece of news on the agenda is that we are playing the Urban Explorers Festival in Dordrecht, Holland on May 21st. Theres a lot of other people playing such as Tim Hecker, Library Tapes, Pattern Theory, Lars Hornveth and many many more as they say. Their website is here.

Goodbye Minnesota Vinyl

Its finally here. You can now order it by following this link.

THIS IS THE ONLY PLACE IN THE WORLD YOU CAN GET IT (at the moment!)

Below see a couple of pics of the record modelled by Mitten!

Goodbye Minnesota vinyl out Friday 16th April

We are thrilled to announce the release of The Declining Winter 'Goodbye Minnesota' vinyl edition. This is limited to strictly 250 copies and comes on 180g heavyweight vinyl in a handmade double fronted sleeve. Each copy comes with an exclusive used postcard and contains a bonus track not found on the original CD version.

Orders will be shipped from Friday 16th April onwards. Please note that there are no pre-orders on this - it will be sold live. We'll be posting details some time on friday so keep checking back or join our mailing list to get information straight to your inbox.

Leaf Archives now available digitally

Our 2009 tour CD 'Leaf Archives' is now available digitally via Bandcamp. We have about 10 CD copies of it left which you can get from the shop . After that its gone. I hope to use the Bandcamp page to make available digitally any of our limited edition things once they've sold out as we really like people to be able to at least hear stuff whatever the medium.

Also we also have an exclusive track up there which you can download for free!