Loaf-Eye: The Vintage Years Vol. 1

by Steven Rainey

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FoxPuppy Steven has a masterful gift for lyrics and writing songs that are clever yet sincere. Fans of indie-rock and alt-country will enjoy repeat listens of this brilliant collection of songs.

Alpha Chrome Yayo What sweeter pleasure is there than unearthing buried treasure, shining it up and sharing it out?

Well, getting to listen to it, in this instance. Courtesy of Steven 'Long John Silver' Rainey, we're treated to a veritable chest-full of previously lost riches.

And riches they are; raw, vulnerable, confident, swaggering, brooding riches.

Enjoy responsibly, or otherwise. Favorite track: Political Animal.

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1.	Maybe Things Went Wrong (Original Version) 03:27	buy track
2.	Mary's Song 02:21	buy track
3.	Older Ways 02:37	buy track
4.	(Please Don't Take me Back to) The Old School 03:11	buy track
5.	New Song for a Drowning Man 03:16	buy track
6.	Political Animal 02:34	buy track
7.	Disjoint 03:06	buy track

about

Come with me, dear reader, on a journey back in time.

Let us cast our collective unconsciousness back to the heady days of 2008, a time of skinny jeans, new rave, and The Credit Crunch.

It's also a time where your humble narrator barricaded himself in a 4th storey apartment in Belfast City Centre, with a 4-track recorder, some battered instruments, and a near endless supply of white wine.

Over the course of a week or two, the formative first musical stumblings that would become War Hole were written. These are songs from that era, forgotten until a cold night in 2021, where they were unearthed, enjoyed and revived.

What you hear is not perfect, these are the original recordings, with subtle embellishments that were not available at the time.

They retain, I feel, a certain purity that I perhaps lack now.

Enjoy.

credits

released December 3, 2021

All songs written and performed by Steven Edward Rainey.

Bass on 'Political Animal' by Daithi An Abach.

All songs recorded in either late 2008, or early 2009.

Percussion, acoustic guitar, and lap steel added November 2021.

A final version of 'Maybe Things Went Wrong' was released by War Hole in 2011 - warhole.bandcamp.com/album/all-our-greatest-hits-on-one-specially-priced-album

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