Ninja Tune ready debut album by Grasscut

We first heard of Grasscut via Nathan Fake’s blissful remix (well, when is Nathan Fake ever not blissful?) of ‘Muppet’, the duo’s first single for Ninja Tune.

According to Grasscut’s Andrew Phillips, ‘Muppet’ came about when he “was talking to a bunch of people having a conversation none of us could be bothered to have … and I could hear someone gossiping about a mutual friend behind me – I couldn’t resist pretending to text while actually recording them.” Guess who’s leaving his Dictaphone at the door come FACT’s next dinner party.

Unwelcome dinner guests or not, Grasscut are definitely showing potential, and it’s something they hope to realise on 1 Inch / ½ Mile, their debut album for Ninja Tune. The back story for this one:

“1 Inch / ½ Mile maps the route of a transcendental journey across a real landscape, centering on the Sussex South Downs of “High Down,” but taking in frozen mountains in North Wales (“Meltwater”), a man with a metal walking stick in a park in Brighton (“The Tin Man”), his mother’s memories of post-war rationing (“1946”) to the slightly more metaphorical Nintendo Cathedral of “Muppet” and Hilaire Belloc riding a winged horse across the nation.”

The press release also tells us that Andrew Phillips is an award-winning film and television composer with over one hundred screen credits, while Marcus O’Dair plays double bass and keyboards. 1 Inch / ½ Mile is due out on July 5, and will be preceded by a single, Door in the Wall’, which features a Bonobo remix. That’s out on June 14.