Kevin P. Gilday & The Glasgow Cross - Pure Concrete (Limited Edition Vinyl)

Limited edition white vinyl record.

Released 29/05/2020 via Iffy Folk Records

Pure Concrete is a cracked hymn to the city of Glasgow. An album about love and lust, death and grief. A record that explores the walls we build around ourselves – the societal, the personal, the literal – and tears them down with a torrent of unfiltered honesty.

The songs delve unflinchingly into the truth of modern living. The alienation, the fleeting connections, the unrelenting pressures – all laid bare with elegiac detail. The personal and the universal coalesce. Intimate experiences are recounted and ubiquitous truths emerge. Life is seen from forgotten housing schemes, lonely hotel rooms, empty beaches and anonymous industrial estates.

This project was supported by PRS Foundation's The Open Fund.

credits

words by Kevin P. Gilday
music by Ralph Hector
drums by Shane Connolly
recorded at 4MH and Chem19
mixed & mastered by Jamie Savage
photography by Michael Gallacher | twistyfoldy.net