Little Victories by R.Dyer
Featuring a collection of songs written over the last 10 years Little Victories is an album that marks and celebrates moments in time, each song a dense narrative woven together with found sounds, lockdown field recordings, snatches of speech and delicate vocals. From the avant-pop of the opening track Little Creatures, recalling the rawness of early Arcade Fire, to the stunning folk-fragility of stand-out track King Alfred’s Cakes, it celebrates the stories of the small and minute, giving voices to canaries and desks, with a wry and intelligent humour. Hinging on the sound-bites of friends and audience members who recount their own little victories about pants, plants, and washing up, it is a unique world of deep humanity, laughter, tenderness and journeys, a network of little things making a beautiful whole.
‘a beautiful show’ Alabaster dePlume
‘Stories of minutiae and mundanity told with heartfelt magic’ Brighton Source
‘I’m really looking forward to what they come up with next’ Sarah Angliss
Tracklist
| 1. | Little Creatures (long version) | 3:18 |
| 2. | Little Victories | 4:14 |
| 3. | victories 1 (journeys) | 1:31 |
| 4. | Modern Life | 3:44 |
| 5. | victories 2 (eggs) | 1:27 |
| 6. | Canary (down in the mines) | 4:22 |
| 7. | Raindrops | 4:00 |
| 8. | victories 3 (very little) | 1:15 |
| 9. | Blaze & The Blue | 4:30 |
| 10. | Ifi | 2:43 |
| 11. | victories 4 (lockdown) | 1:29 |
| 12. | King Alfred's Cakes | 5:00 |
Credits
All songs by R.dyer except for Little Creatures by R.dyer and V.tremain
Mixed by Jon Griffin, except tracks 1,2,6,7 mixed by Eddie Haydn Smith.
Mastered by Jamie Moore
License
All rights reserved.
Rdyer uses saxophone, saw, harp, found sounds, tape samples, looped vocals and synth to create mesmerising baroque pop laced with chaotic improvisation. Sometimes they stray into power pop.