Thom Stone’s new two-part EP, Hearts & Bones, is out today on iTunes, Napster, 7digital and other digital providers. Recorded over the course of one very drunken/hung-over weekend, and complemented by full string arrangements, Hearts & Bones is a melancholic, atmospheric (verging on alcoholic) record.
Click the links to download Hearts & Bones from iTunes or Amazon MP3.
Thom Stone’s new two-part EP, Hearts & Bones, is out on Airbag Recordings on May 25th.
To celebrate, Thom will be playing a special acoustic show at Soho Arts, a members-only bar on Frith Street, Soho. It’s a bit like a prohibition-era speakeasy, with cocktails in teapots and table service. Plus, cocktails are £3.50 before 9pm.
Thom Stone’s single She Knows will be soundtracking the second series of The Inbetweeners. You can hear it tonight at 10pm on Channel 4. The series is up for a Bafta…so…invitations in the post, yeah?
Also, there will be some changes to the store over the next couple of weeks, in preparation for the launch of Thom’s two-part digital-only EP, Hearts & Bones. They will be available here exclusively for a week, before appearing on iTunes the following week. The package you download here will include high resolution artwork and some extra goodies, along with the EPs in high-quality MP3 format. And, of course, there will be no DRM - so you can play them on any computer or MP3 player once you have downloaded them. More news on that soon…
Finally, you can get tickets for the Hearts & Bones EP launch by clicking here. It’s at the beautiful Soho Arts, and will feature some really rather wonderful special guests. Expect line-up announcements soon.
Our very own Thom Stone will be gracing the soundtrack to Channel 4’s award-winning comedy The Inbetweeners, for the second year running. She Knows will be used for the second series of the show, airing in summer.
This is going to be an exciting year for Thom Stone - his debut album is out this summer, and will be preceded by an as-yet-to-be-named single, and a special digital-only EP.
Yesterday, Thom’s new website launched. He will be blogging there regularly, and there are some free downloads to get you started. Check it out at www.thomstonemusic.com.
Misconstructed Beats, the debut EP from A Stranger In Moscow. They are currently on tour, so check out their Myspace; if they are playing within a 50 mile radius of you then you really, really should go and see them. It sounds great and looks amazing; it will be available in special cardboard gatefold CD packaging.
Also, the first Singles Club release is coming along nicely. Finally, apologies to those who have been trying to get hold of Airbag releases on iTunes this week; we are in the middle of changing digital distributors, so all our releases are down for a little while. They will be back soon, but you will also be able to find them on about nine billion other digital providers. Which is good news.
October will see the launch of the Airbag Singles Club. We will be releasing a single each month, each from a different band, on download and highly limited CD.
The first Singles Club release will be Zeitgeist, the debut single from Videosprint.
Today, version 3.0 of the Airbag website launched. I finished it at 5 this morning, and should thank Shayne at S-Tastic Desings for his help.
Anyway, we would like to know what works and what doesn’t. We will be adding fun new functionality in the next couple of weeks, but in the meantime it would be great if you could try your hardest to fuck this up, and let us know how you did it. Thanks!