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Spitzer Space Telescope - The Spitzer Space Telescope Sampler - 1LP
21/11/2025
BH-015
Artist:
Spitzer Space Telescope
Label:
Broadside Hacks Recordings
Version Description:
First press, black vinyl. Tipped on artwork on reverse black board
Sound Carrier:
1LP
All three EPs collected on ltd. vinyl-only compilation, exclusive to ongoing Broadside Hacks label roster tour.
“This essentially ancient music sounded like it belonged to the modern age” The Times
“Repurposes the Aran sweater stylings of The Clancy Brothers and Pete Seeger into five impossibly vibrant songs. Committed to the point of being genuinely deranged” MOJO 4*
“Spitzer Space Telescope strips folk songwriting down to its emotional core….music at its bare essentials” CLASH
“Forceful delivery, broad choruses and thrumming arrangements…will make your heart jump” Songlines
Ahead of a fresh leg of UK tour dates as part of the Broadside Hacks label roster tour - London-via-Michigan Ballad singer & Songwriter Spitzer Space Telescope - real name Dan MacDonald - announces new EP Spitzer Space Telescope III.
Continuing his penchant for direct, Clancey Brothers-inspired folk songwriting, ‘All The Girls Ashore’ contains all of his distinctive hallmarks - vocals belted at the top of his lungs, arrangements kept sparse and melody pushed firmly to the fore, featuring vocal harmonies from Mareva Lindo and David McKindley-Ward.
A rare case of MacDonald - who typically writes all of his own material - ‘ borrowing’ a melody from pre-existing folk tune, ‘All The Girls Ashore’ takes its melody from a French whaling song called ‘Pique La Baleine’, as he explains: “The only example of a melody I didn’t write. I liked the melody, and I wrote English lyrics to it. I don’t even know what the French is talking about. That track is just a blatant love letter to sea shanties, one of my home base music traditions.”
It’s his first release since taking full-time residence in London, and follows a host of high profile shows, among them a Green Man main stage performance this summer with his Bob Dylan tribute, sharing the stage with Mercury nominee Martin Carthy at his celebrated career retrospective last month, opening for Shovel Dance Collective at a sold-out EarTH theatre mayday performance and heading up the bills at SXSW and Fire In The Mountain festivals.
All this has coincided with heaps of press support from the likes of The Times, The Guardian, MOJO, Clash, Songlines, Tradfolk, Far Out and Americana UK Coinciding with the digital release of Spitzer Space Telescope III, the ‘trilogy’ of EPs released thus far is being released together on vinyl for the first time.
1. Great Ascender
2. The Poor Soldier
3. Kayne in the Orchard
4. Dunning Town
5. Field of Men
6. Sly Johnny Wood
7. Midwest Tribute Song
8. Corn Holler
9. Miser
10. Rovin' Is Me Pleasure
11. Oh Misfortune I Know
12. Hard Luck Johnny
13. Five Oaks in a Ring
Live
October
25 - St Luke’s, Brighton ☤
26 - Hoxton Hall, London ☤
27 - Heartbreakers, Southampton ☤
28 - The Barrel House, Totnes ♱
30 - The Cornish Bank, Falmouth ♱
November
3 - The Wardrobe, Bristol ♱
5 - Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff ♱
8 - HTL Church, Leicester ❀
10 - The Attic, Leeds ♱
12 - Gut Level, Sheffield ♱
13 - Halle St Michael, Manchester ☤
14 - Lansdown Hall, Stroud ♕
22 - London, Round Chapel (supporting Nora Brown, with Stephanie Coleman) *
♱ Goblin Band & Spitzer Space Telescope
♕ Goblin Band, Milkweed & Spitzer Space Telescope
☤ Goblin Band, Spitzer Space Telescope & Brown Wimpenny
❀ Goblin Band, Milkweed, Spitzer Space Telescope & Brown Wimpenny
* Spitzer Space Telescope
Manufacturer:
Broadside Hacks Recordings 10 Inverness Street, London, England, NW1 7HJ INFO@BROADSIDEHACKS.COM
EU Representative:
UAB Mushroom Agency
Saulėtekio al. 15-1, LT-10224, Vilnius, Lithuania
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