After a four year recording hiatus from the moniker, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. returned with his sumptuous new album, Young Adult, in January via the Xtra Mile Recordings imprint. Featuring a string of equally different and individually brilliant singles including ‘Adults’, ‘Always’, ‘Just A Phase’, ‘DNA’, and ‘VHS Forever’, the album was met with warm reviews. Making his return to the live stage with a triumphant one-off UK show at The Village Underground in London back in January to mark the release of Young Adult, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly is well and truly back. Catch Sam and band on tour this October.

A special collaboration with World Illustration Awards winning and currently 2018 Creativepool awards shortlisted artist Rebecca Hendin, the ‘Animate’ Video takes us into a hybrid world where the natural and technological fiercely collide and compete for your attention. In the video, the viewer watches on as a solitary figure traverses across a 2-D landscape resembling reality, yet invaded by swarms of emoticons, plagued with sensory-overloading computer coding and littered with electronic devices poised to distract.

Speaking about the video, Hendin says: “The 'Animate' video shows a flowering world of colour and beauty obscured by a factory-line cityscape of greyscale modernity- phones and technology and social media and the perpetual static engulfing us. The digital noise switches off during the chorus to show an expanse of colour, always there if you choose to notice- if only you look past the static. Ultimately in the animation, the world of noise overtakes the world of colour, and the video ends in a sea of grey and glitches. Cheerful, I know.”

A captivating visual accompaniment for a song all about the disconnect that technology can perhaps pertain to, Get Cape AKA Sam Duckworth offers us his own added context here with regard to the piece’s score: “Animate is a song about taking a step back, drinking in the view. In a world of rushing around sometimes the long way is the best way. More peaceful, more beautiful, less rushed. I’m a huge fan of animation, the attention to detail and the endeavour of the human hand. It allows new worlds to be created and for imaginative takes on the present. The song is called animate because of the belief that sometimes its just best to do it by hand, with time and attention to detail. Rebecca Hendin is one of my favourite illustrators. She did an absolutely incredible job of my Recreations album artwork and I’m absolutely made up that she agreed to do the artwork and video for this single."

GET CAPE. WEAR CAPE. FLY. – OCTOBER TOUR

Thu - 4th  - Lincoln - Engine Shed

Fri - 5th  - Liverpool - Shipping Forecast

Sat - 6th  - Manchester - Neighbourhood Festival

Sun - 7th  - Glasgow - O2 ABC2

Tue - 9th  - Newcastle - Think Tank

Wed - 10th  - Leeds - Brudenell Social

Thu - 11th  - Leicester - The Cookie

Sun - 14th  - Birmingham - O2 Academy3

Mon - 15th  - Oxford - O2 Academy2

Tue - 16th  - Southampton - Joiners -

Wed - 17th  - Brighton - The Hope & Ruin

Fri - 19th  - London - Islington Assembly Hall

‘Porky Pies’ is the latest track to be cut from Seán McGowan’s fast approaching debut album, Son Of The Smith, which is due out May 11 on Xtra Mile Recordings. ‘Porky Pies’ is a track that sees the young punk poet waxing lyrical about his favourite brand of savoury snack for a big cash pay out, this is not. Instead, pulling up his boot straps on a quest for the truth, Seán’s latest sees him directly confront those who try to pull the wool over our eyes in society.

“Daylight robbery/ mad men on a mugger/ lifetime of monotony/ it’s a fixed lottery/ burdened to bottom feed/ banished to poverty/ worship celebrity?… Nah I don’t think so” - quips Seán as he sifts through the stream of bullshit we’re fed by our media channels everyday and happily regurgitate without a second’s thought.

In an era where “Fake News”, illicit electioneering tactics, and espionage, seem to have become part of the fabric of everyday life, Seán’s frustration with the daily propagation of lies from the upmost order down has perhaps never been more prescient. Standing up for the truth and honour with a song that is as musically deceptive as the subject matter it spears, Seán delivers us another sharp shot of his lyrical prowess in this track loaded with multifarious hooks and cunning key changes aplenty.

‘Son of the Smith’  Album track-listing

Mind The Doors

Cuppa Tea

Romance Ain’t Dead

Skin & Bone

Porkie Pies

Oh My Days

Mind Your Head

Springhill

Local Boy

Auto Pilot

Life Has A Way

Off The Rails

Mind The Gap