Georgia Ruth Lines Up October Release For Sophomore Album 'Fossil Scale'
Wednesday, 13 July 2016
Written by Laura Johnson
Georgia Ruth is set to release her sophomore album this autumn.
'Fossile Scale', the follow up to her Welsh Music Prize-winning bilingual debut, 'Week Of Pines', is due out on October 7 via Navigator Records. Discussing cut The Doldrums, which you can listen to below, Ruth said:
"The Doldrums was one of the first songs I wrote for the album. I'd just moved to Caernarfon, and had become totally transfixed by the view out over the Menai Straits (a narrow stretch of tidal water about 16 miles long that separates mainland Gwynedd from Anglesey). It was absolutely beautiful. But there was something that felt ominous, something to do with the stillness of the water. And this sort of chimed with how I'd been feeling; the sometimes disconcerting stillness of being happy! According to people who sail, the doldrums are a sea-state of mild inactivity, stagnation. It's caused by low pressure and heating at the equator. My dad was in the merchant navy as a young man, and he confirmed that the looming threat of those parts of the Pacific sea are really unnerving. Coleridge has this amazing description of them in the Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner: “Day after day, day after day, we stuck, nor breath nor motion; as idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean.”"
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