Two young men and the sea
January 16, 2020

Thirty Pounds of Bone & Philip Reeder new album of fishing songs - recorded on a boat

An impressive story in the Quietus about the making of the album 'Still Every Year They Went' by Thirty Pounds of Bone and Philip Reeder. In 2015 two musicians and lecturers, Johny Lamb (who records as Thirty Pounds of Bone) and Philip Reeder took a trip on a trawler called the Girl Mary. They brought instruments and recording gear along with them and recorded folk songs about the sea while on the boat. The sounds of the ocean and the gulls are heard throughout, as well as the creaking of the hull, a helicopter (apparently belonging to the coastguard), something that could be a mechanical winch. The result - 25 minutes of beautifully sad fishermen songs, straight from the sea.