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Debut album Permo out now – stream HERE
Share new video for ‘Money For Breakfast’ – watch HERE

“Permo’s strength is the variety of voices provided by rotating singers, which in turn encourages and emphasises the band’s range” Uncut 8/10
“Autumnal beauty” Mojo
“Music made out of love, rather than in pursuit of a trend” The Guardian 4*
“The band match skuzzy, barbed wire indie pop riffs to lyrics that detail a crumbling society, gently politicised while also speaking of the personal.” Clash
“Bustling with ideas… Gorgeous” DIY 4*

Permo, Spinning Coin’s glorious debut album was released this past Friday on Geographic. It showcases a band that over the last three years have determinedly, and with single-minded purpose, made their music heard: beautifully rough-hewn guitar pop that takes in frustration, escapism, but also gracefulness and splendour, in equal measure.

To celebrate the release, the Glasgow five-piece have shared a new video for album track ‘Money For Breakfast’. Filmed in Tynemouth by Stuart McIntosh whilst the band were touring, watch the video HERE.

Spinning Coin’s two songwriters – Sean Armstrong and Jack Mellin – oscillate taking centre stage on a song; Armstrong’s more melancholic melodies contrasting with Mellin’s urgent refrains.

Permo was recorded with Edwyn Collins at his AED Studios, and at Green Door Studio (the recording centre for the new wave of Glasgow artists) with Stu Evans.

Having just finished their own headline tour and support slots with Girl Ray, Spinning Coin are playing with The Pastels, Dinosaur Jr. and The Charlatans in the next month and will launch their album in Glasgow next week.

Spinning Coin are Sean Armstrong (vocals, guitar), Cal Donnelly (bass), Jack Mellin (vocals, guitar), Rachel Taylor (vocals, keyboards) and Chris White (drums).

Permo is available to buy on limited-edition green coloured vinyl, standard vinyl, CD – all of which come with a booklet – and digital. Buy: Physical / Digital / Stream

Upcoming UK live dates
10th November – The White Hotel, Salford w/The Pastels
17th November – Mono, Glasgow (album launch)
4th December – o2 Academy, Glasgow w/ The Charlatans
10th December – The Art School, Glasgow w/ Dinosaur Jr.
11th December – The Art School, Glasgow w/ Dinosaur Jr. 

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Spinning Coin share new song ‘Money Is A Drug’ – debut album ‘Permo’ released 10th November

Share new song ‘Money Is A Drug’ – stream here
Debut album Permo released Nov 10th via Geographic

“The band match skuzzy, barbed wire indie pop riffs to lyrics that detail a crumbling society, gently politicised while also speaking of the personal.” Clash
“Another delightful offering from a band who have barely put a foot wrong since their initial appearance”Goldflake Paint
“It’s almost impossible not to give your heart to this beautiful quintet” Wonderland

Ahead of the release of their debut album Permo (due Nov 10th on Geographic) and upcoming headline tour, Glasgow’s Spinning Coin share a new cut from the record, ‘Money Is A Drug’.

Stream ‘Money Is A Drug’ HERE

Listen to ‘Money Is a Drug’ on YouTube HERE

Spinning Coin’s two songwriters – Sean Armstrong and Jack Mellin – oscillate taking centre stage on a song; Armstrong’s more melancholic melodies contrasting with Mellin’s urgent refrains. And the deceptively spry ‘Money Is A Drug’ is one of Mellin’s, its flecks of country-soul charm concealing lyrics calling out ‘class war’ and economic inequality.

Permo was recorded with Edwyn Collins at his AED Studios, and at Green Door Studio (the recording centre for the new wave of Glasgow artists) with Stu Evans. It is an album of bold steps and simple gestures, coming from a group who have found, seemingly effortlessly, a confident, unpretentious and egalitarian way of working together.

The fourteen songs on Permo trace all kinds of terrain, though the overarching story might be that of a group looking for escapism, somehow and anyhow, in the midst of a social and cultural climate that’s closing down possibilities for difference and community.

Having previously supported Teenage Fanclub and Real Estate, Spinning Coin will head out with Girl Rayand Dinosaur Jr. after their own headline tour.

Spinning Coin are Sean Armstrong (vocals, guitar), Cal Donnelly (bass), Jack Mellin (vocals, guitar), Rachel Taylor (vocals, keyboards) and Chris White (drums).

Permo is available to pre order on limited-edition green coloured vinyl, standard vinyl, CD – all of which come with a booklet – and digital. Pre order: Physical / Digital

Upcoming live dates
21st October – Simple Things Festival, Bristol
29th October – Liverpool Music Week, Liverpool
30th October – Old Blue Last, London
31st October – Heartbreakers, Southampton
1st November – Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff
2nd November – Picture House Social Club, Sheffield
3rd November – Think Tank? Underground, Newcastle w/ Girl Ray
4th November – Wharf Chambers, Leeds
5th November – Hare and Hounds, Birmingham w/ Girl Ray
6th November – The Cellar, Oxford w/ Girl Ray
7th November – The Louisiana, Bristol w/ Girl Ray
8th November – Green Door Store, Brighton w/ Girl Ray
9th November – Scala, London w/ Girl Ray
10th November – The White Hotel, Salford w/The Pastels
17th November – Mono, Glasgow (album launch)
10th December – The Art School, Glasgow w/ Dinosaur Jr.
11th December – The Art School, Glasgow w/ Dinosaur Jr. 

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Debut album Permo released 10th November 2017 via Geographic Watch video for new track ‘Sleepless’ HERE
Live dates confirmed including headline tour and Girl Ray/Dinosaur Jr. support

Over the space of three years, two singles and countless gigs, including tour supports with Teenage Fanclub and Real Estate, Glasgow’s Spinning Coin have determinedly, and with single-minded purpose, made their music heard: beautifully rough-hewn guitar pop that takes in frustration, escapism, but also gracefulness and splendour, in equal measure.

The five-piece now announce that their debut album Permo will be released on November 10th via The Pastels’ Domino imprint, Geographic Music and have shared the video for new track ‘Sleepless’.

Watch the video for ‘Sleepless’ here.

Stream ‘Sleepless’ here.

Recorded with Edwyn Collins at his AED Studios, and at Green Door Studio (the recording centre for the new wave of Glasgow artists) with Stu Evans, Permo is an album of bold steps and simple gestures, coming from a group who have found, seemingly effortlessly, a confident, unpretentious and egalitarian way of working together. Spinning Coin’s two songwriters – Sean Armstrong and Jack Mellin – oscillate taking centre stage on a song; Armstrong’s more melancholic melodies contrasting with Mellin’s urgent refrains.

The fourteen songs on Permo trace all kinds of terrain, though the overarching story might be that of a group looking for escapism, somehow and anyhow, in the midst of a social and cultural climate that’s closing down possibilities for difference and community.

It opens with the gorgeous ‘Raining On Hope Street’, an Armstrong song that was released on 7” earlier this year – there’s an undercurrent to the song, too, as Armstrong reflects that he wanted to write something “slightly spooky, ambiguous and open to interpretation”. ‘Tin’ follows, one of many Mellin songs that looks to the outside world and finds things wanting. “’Tin’ is trying to look at the two extremes of privilege and under-privilege,” he says. It’s a theme that Mellin returns to, with variation, over the course of the album – from the deceptively spry ‘Money Is A Drug’, whose flecks of country-soul charm conceals lyrics calling out ‘class war’ and ‘stupid rules’, through to ‘Powerful’, where Mellin takes on the possibilities of self-empowerment:

Spinning Coin write from lived experience, grounding their songs in an understanding that we’re all finding our way through the world, trying to figure out what the hell is going on out there. Armstrong takes on similar themes with ‘Starry Eyes’, and its blunt lines about how it’s not ‘the right time to celebrate, when people in the world are dying at the hands of the government’, but he also writes some of the album’s more peaceable songs, like the sleepwalking reverie of ’Metronome River’, or the driftwork of ‘Floating With You’.

Elsewhere on Permo, The Pastels’ Katrina Mitchell and Breakfast Muff’s Simone Wilson sing on ‘Be Free’ and ‘Running With The World’ respectively, plus the band have just welcomed new member Rachel Taylor. That’s a typically Spinning Coin development: a group fiercely engaged with community, welcoming new experience into their orbit, and looking for ways to move forwards with a warmth for humanity. It’s writ large across Permo – finding better ways to live, and to be together in the world, against the odds.

Spinning Coin are Sean Armstrong (vocals, guitar), Cal Donnelly (bass), Jack Mellin (vocals, guitar), Rachel Taylor (vocals, keyboards) and Chris White (drums).

Album artwork:

Album tracklisting:
1. Raining On Hope Street
2. Tin
3. Money For Breakfast
4. Money Is A Drug
5. Metronome River
6. Magdalene
7. Floating With You
8. Be Free
9. Sides
10. Sleepless
11. Powerful
12. Starry Eyes
13. Running With The World
14. I Feel The Need To Be An Actor

Permo is available to pre order on limited-edition green coloured vinyl, standard vinyl, CD – all of which come with a booklet – and digital. Pre order: Dom Mart / Digital

Upcoming live dates
30th September – Tenement Trail Festival, Glasgow
21st October – Simple Things Festival, Bristol
29th October – Liverpool Music Week, Liverpool
30th October – Old Blue Last, London
31st October – Heartbreakers, Southampton
1st November – Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff
2nd November – Picture House Social Club, Sheffield
3rd November – Think Tank? Underground, Newcastle w/ Girl Ray
4th November – Wharf Chambers, Leeds
5th November – Hare and Hounds, Birmingham w/ Girl Ray
6th November – The Cellar, Oxford w/ Girl Ray
7th November – The Louisiana, Bristol w/ Girl Ray
8th November – Green Door Store, Brighton w/ Girl Ray
9th November – Scala, London w/ Girl Ray
10th November – The White Hotel, Salford w/The Pastels
17th November – Mono, Glasgow (album launch)
10th December – The Art School, Glasgow w/ Dinosaur Jr. Sold out
11th December – The Art School, Glasgow w/ Dinosaur Jr.

Featured Photo Credit :    Brian Sweeney

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