Patchwork (Expanded Version)

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CD digipak featuring the remastered Patchwork album plus 13 bonus tracks, previously unreleased

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1.	Nowhere Girl 03:18	buy track
2.	Making Time to Talk 04:34	buy track
3.	Breakdown 02:38	buy track
4.	Where I'm From 03:09	buy track
5.	Lucky that the Heart 04:32	buy track
6.	Listen to You 02:15	buy track
7.	Patchwork 03:15	buy track
8.	The State that Remains 03:23	buy track
9.	What's Going On 04:12	buy track
10.	For You 03:37	buy track
11.	More Pleasant to the Ear 01:31	buy track
12.	Travelling Song 03:10	buy track
13.	Falling Behind (bonus track) 03:13	buy track
14.	Follow Me Down (bonus track) 01:41	buy track
15.	I Won't Rise (bonus track) 02:21	buy track
16.	Rose Tinted Specs (bonus track) 02:41	buy track
17.	She Can't Win (bonus track) 02:17	buy track
18.	Waves (bonus track) 02:15	buy track
19.	Picking it Apart (bonus track) 03:19	buy track
20.	Won't You Talk to Me (bonus track) 02:30	buy track
21.	Up On the Hill (bonus track) 03:20	buy track
22.	Yes I Will (bonus track) 02:40	buy track
23.	If I Lose It (bonus track) 03:01	buy track
24.	I'm Not There (bonus track) 02:41	buy track
25.	Lucky that the Heart - rehearsal room March 2008 (bonus track) 04:26	buy track

about

'Patchwork' was exactly that - a patchwork of songs intended for various other projects. Some left over from the 2007 recordings for 'Turning Circles' (Nowhere Girl, What's Going On, Listen to You),
Some from the 2008 'Dot the i' sessions that didn't fit the upbeat power pop theme we settled on (Where I'm From, Lucky that the Heart, I Won't Rise, State that Remains)
Some songs that were already written and intended for the next record 'Abelay Hotel' (Breakdown, Making Time to Talk)
Some of the remaining songs were picked from the vast pile of unreleased songs that was growing rapidly during the most prolific writing phase of my life. (Travelling Song, Patchwork)

After playing a show in Liverpool's Cavern club in May 2008, we met Jerker Emanuelson from Sound Asleep Records who almost immediately offered to release a Dropkick CD on his Swedish label. We were so happy to do so! Although we had recently released 'Do the i' (March 2008), we knew there were loads of songs we could put together in some coherent, yet ramshackle fashion. The songs fell together easily with a loose, almost alt.country feel in places, underlined by the use of acoustic guitars, pedal steel, banjo and mandolin throughout. It felt a million miles from the noisy pop of 'Dot the i'. Originally released in November 2008, this became the first of many releases we put out with Sound Asleep Records in Sweden. 'Patchwork' may not have been the most polished set of recordings we ever made but it is still a collection of songs among our best and one I'm very proud of.

Having been unavailable on CD for many years and absent from any digital streaming sites, I always intended to revisit these songs one day. Dropkick haven't stopped playing some of these songs live, even with changing band line ups over the years. Despite no longer being actively involved in new Dropkick music, I know Alastair and Roy Taylor are happy that this re-release takes place too. I was keen to look into the Dropkick archive and find recordings that were made around the same time- some by the band and others mainly solo- to see what other songs were considered and might have been included on the original CD. I hope you'll find some that were worth revealing. A few of the bonus tracks appeared later in re-recorded versions on other album projects:
Abelay Hotel (picking it apart, If I lose it), the Andrew solo album 'From the Outside Looking in' (won't you talk to me), the 2nd Boys with the Perpetual Nervousness album (Rose Tinted specs - later to become Rose Tinted Glass) and the 2010 Xmas EP (Follow me down, Up on the Hill - albeit with alternative lyrics). I've also included a rehearsal room live recording of Roy Taylor's 'Lucky that the Heart', a highlight of the original album and the last recording we ever made with our much-missed cousin, Stuart Low.

I hope you'll enjoy revisiting the album too, or perhaps enjoy hearing this important part of our musical history for the first time.

Cheers,

Andrew Taylor
November 2023

credits

released January 12, 2024

'Patchwork' performed by Andrew Taylor, Alastair Taylor and Roy Taylor with Stuart Low (bass on tracks 4, 5 and 25) and Andy Tucker (vocals on track 5)

Track 1 written by Roy and Alastair Taylor
Tracks 2,3,4,7,12,13,15,16,18, 19,20,21,22,23,24 by Andrew Taylor
Track 11 by Andrew and Alastair Taylor
Tracks 6,9,14,17 by Alastair Taylor
Tracks 5, 8, 10 by Roy Taylor

Recorded and Mixed by Andrew Taylor between 2007/08
Album originally released November 2008

Remastered and complied by Andrew Taylor, November 2022

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Hailing from the east coast of Scotland, Dropkick have drawn on influences such as Wilco, Teenage Fanclub and Tom Petty to produce their own blend of harmony-driven, power-pop for well over a decade.

“Those who have yet to latch onto them are surely missing something special....Indie, powerpop, accomplished harmonies, alt.country tendencies. What’s not to love?” The Herald newspaper ... more

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