Dead Rat Orchestra have become the slow burning backwater of British music; perpetually hovering on the fringes of distinct scenes, yet never fully on-board, they remain their own mutable paradigm. Having toured with the likes of Godspeed You Black Emperor, Silver Mt Zion, Sandro Perri, Mark Almond and Baby Dee, the band have finally announced details of their official debut set for release in July. The Guga Hunters of Ness was originally scored for the BBC documentary of the same name that follows the journey of ten men from the community of Ness on the Isle of Lewis as they embark on a traditional hunt for gannets. Utilising their customarily unconventional instrumentation to create precarious and powerful abstract-folk, the trio of Daniel Merrill, Robin Alderton and Nathaniel Mann have come up with a powerful score, with compositions seeded in hours of study of Hebridean folk song.

Dead Rat Orchestra will be embarking on some live shows around the UK in June and July.

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