“Ships” is Seamus Fogarty’s first new collection of music since 2023’s “Hee Haw” EP (“Just
brilliant” – Cillian Murphy, BBC6 Music) and is undoubtedly his most expansive and uplifting
collection of music to date. Channelling everything from Tortoise to early 90s hip hop, it’s
packed with poignant and funny slice-of-life vignettes touching on love, loss, trashy 19th
century Russian literature, DIY coffins, cans on trains with strangers and so much more.
After an enthusiastic response to several new songs writtten in the wake of his last album,
2020’s “A Bag Of Eyes”, and performed while on tour with Lisa O’Neill around Ireland and the
UK, Seamus enlisted the help of a range of esteemed collaborators longtime and new to bring
this new collections of songs to life, including string-arranger Emma Smith (Pulp, Beth
Gibbons), drummers Chris Vatalaro (Anohni, Radiohead) & Aram Zarikian (Grasscut), horn
player Joe Auckland (Madness, Oasis) with additional production and engineering by Leo
Abrahams (Brian Eno, Jon Hopkins) & Mike Lindsay (Tunng, Lump)
