Charcoal Owls is the evolving collaboration between musician Tom James Scott and poet/vocalist Russell Walker (Pheromoans, The Bomber Jackets). Their debut LP Tin Roof sees Scott draw on disparate forms - Satiesque minimalism, field recording, abstracted pop and improvisation to converse with the peculiar lyricism that Walker has perfected over his various activities. The result is a warm, absurdist meditation on suburban insecurity and the tragi-comic. "The Rundells" sees the duo paint an impressionistic landscape of English suburban dread, with Walker's deadpan self-analysis creating an emotional tension with the windswept electronics and field recording.

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