After spending the best part of 15 years living and getting slightly lost in Berlin, Germany, Lukas Creswell-Rost decided it was time to come home. That being Yorkshire, England. Born in Leeds in the mid-eighties, he now spends his time driving up and down the A1, playing guitar with various projects, and trying to form his ideas into slightly over ambitious songs. After two records, Go Dream in 2014 and Gone Dreamin’ in 2018 (a reimagined version of his previous album), his latest batch have been a while in the making, but the densely layered songs now emerge to form the album Weight Away. Most of the songs were written when he lived in Berlin, but weren’t able to be finished until he moved back to the UK. Having tested them out and about at various gigs in Berlin, he recorded the bare bones of many of the tracks live to four track cassette machine with just voice and guitar. Then one of the key components came from long term drumming collaborator and friend, James Yates (epic45, Majetone) whose drums make a notable appearance on pretty much every track. Some songs began as sessions they played live together, which Lukas took away and moulded into the song’s form later on, and some were sent back and forth. A few other friends helped complete the picture, with Danny Laycock on some bass/fretless bass and his wife Emaline Delapaix lending backing vocals. Weight Away that will be out next Friday July 4th on Wayside & Woodland Records, but today we are honoured to have More Jam Than Bread, a third single from the album, as an exclusive premiere here on TRISTE©.

What Lukas Says: “This song has had many forms and arrangements because there is essentially a bit too much going on, so it was hard to wrangle it all together into a something listenable. I kept working on it after nearly losing the will to carry on once my computer started to fail to be able to play the multiple tracks I had burdened the session with. In an early stage I’d named it Sill Song as I thought, and hoped, it vaguely sounded Judee Sill adjacent with the guitar part. It’s two songs stuck together with a droney atmospheric glue. In the end, it has worked out as one of my favourites on the album.“

Weight Away will be out next Friday July 4th on Wayside & Woodland Records. Look HERE for more information on Lukas Creswell-Rost.