Welcome to the Void/A Good Year for the Mushrooms - single

by A.J. Holmes

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	1.	Welcome to the Void 04:42	info	buy track
	2.	A Good Year for the Mushrooms 05:47 video	info	buy track

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Welcome to the Void / A Good Year for the Mushrooms is the second single from the latest album by A.J. Holmes - A Better Standard of Ordinariness.

"What is needed is not more grand gestures but a better standard of ordinariness" ― Peter Adlington architect

The album is the first that Holmes has recorded entirely alone, playing all instruments. It was recorded between January - May 2020, a large part of which was during the first Covid-19 national lockdown. However it also reflects view points from a world before the coronavirus pandemic, as the songs were written between mid 2017 and late 2019.

With this single Holmes starts by inviting us into the unknown, into uncertainty with the almost epic greeting ‘Welcome to the Void’
Then follows was a pastoral psychedelic folk influenced canon. In which Holmes guides us on a hike over the East Sussex Downs and celebrates that despite the climate crisis, it’s ‘A Good Year for the Mushrooms’ at least, as Holmes recites names of mushroom varieties…many of them fictional.

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released April 22, 2022

All songs written and performed by A.J. Holmes

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A.J. Holmes London, UK

A.J. Holmes (aka Vanishing Breed) is a Musician, Recordist, Big fan of Pan-African music, Lover of 20th Century Architecture and Founder of The Hackney Empire (band)

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