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It Could Be Home is a debut release over thirty years in the making.

 

Formed in 1986 - out of the ashes of Liverpool-based Post-Punk eccentrics A Better Mousetrap and Warringtonian Art Rock band After The Stranger - Plenty was Tim Bowness’s immediate pre-no-man band.

Distinctively echoing then contemporary artists such as The Blue Nile, It’s Immaterial and Prefab Sprout - alongside the iconic likes of David Bowie, David Sylvian/Japan and Peter Gabriel - Plenty’s music alternated between anthemic pop, poignant ballads and ambient experiments and was unheard at the time beyond two North West performances and a handful of plays on local radio stations such as Piccadilly Radio, BBC GMR, BBC Radio Merseyside and Radio City.

Between Spring 2016 and Summer 2017, founder members Tim Bowness, Brian Hulse and David K Jones re-recorded Plenty’s catalogue of 1980s songs and set about completing the album the band had hoped to release three decades previously.

 

Whilst re-writing some lyrics and streamlining elements of the songs’ arrangements, the band remained faithful to both the spirit of the original recordings and the era in which the songs were written. 

Showcasing the origins of styles that subsequently became Bowness and no-man trademarks, It Could Be Home also reveals different sides to Bowness’s vocals, as Jones’s powerful bass playing and Hulse’s inventive guitar parts and pulsating electronics push Bowness into territories he’s rarely explored since the 1980s.

The Rolling Stones’ As Tears Go By is given a radical synth-heavy overhaul, Hide and Climb possess a driving Post-Punk energy, while pieces like Foolish Waking and Strange Gods anticipate the timeless atmospheric melancholy of Bowness music to come. The Good Man - the band’s first new song in 27 years - provides a seamless link between Plenty's past and the present.

It Could Be Home was mixed and instrumentally augmented by Norwegian producer Jacob Holm-Lupo (White Willow, The Opium Cartel). 

Mastered by The Pineapple Thief’s Steve Kitch, the album also features contributions from former Plenty guitarist Michael Bearpark, pianist Peter Chilvers (Brian Eno, Karl Hyde) and no-man violinist Steve Bingham.

 

The album’s striking artwork was created by award-winning designer Carl Glover (Steven Wilson, Porcupine Tree, Led Zeppelin, no-man, Marillion etc).  It could be Home is a lost Art Pop treasure well and truly found. 

 

The album will be released on Norwegian label Karisma Records on 27th April 2018, and will be available as a CD in six panel digipak, a black 140g vinyl in gatefold cover, and a limited edition140g  blue vinyl in gatefold cover. It will also be available via all major digital and streaming platforms.

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