ARTISTS / Saint Corsair

Saint Corsair
Velvet & Soil

Catalog Numbers: FH-037 / FH:VI-014
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Genre: Alternative / Indie Rock
Radio Friendly: Yes
Type: EP
Purchase: Bandcamp
Links: Discogs Info | Spotify

pressing information

Digital: Worldwide
Cassette Tape: Furhoof: Sixth Man

• 1st Press (2016): 200
  – Solid Black w/red liner x100
  – Solid Pale Green w/ orange liner x 100
  Solid Black or Pale Green cassette with greyscale A-side paper label, full-color O-Card slipcase featuring art by Ryan McCardle, and lyrics insert. Hand-numbered.

Release Biography

Saint Corsair led and directed by Lucas Carpenter is a new age ensemble with a penchant for the past. Saint Corsair has gone through several iterations finding focus in the mix between technical, complex composition and simplistic, straightforward songwriting. The name is a nod to the holy and unholy — a saintly pirate. Always looking for lyricism with stories of the lost and reincarnate and melodies with subtle mementos, melancholy or menace.

The story of Saint Corsair was told in the preface EP ‘Velvet & Soil,’ released February 19th 2016 digitally worldwide, as well as on limited edition cassette via Furious Hooves. The songs that make up ‘Velvet & Soil’ began taking shape two years prior to its release and even their first live show, which just so happened to be at the Savannah Stopover Festival in Savannah, GA. Carpenter would record sessions whenever he returned to his home in Los Angeles, or at a studio he worked at in New York City.

Nowadays, Carpenter runs his own recording studio Outhouse Recorders based in Brooklyn, NY – specializing in recording, producing, and mixing in both analog and digital formats. They have worked with such artists as The Muckers, Triathalon, Adam Green (of The Moldy Peaches), Yumi Zouma, Snail Mail, and more.

Press & Accolades

“‘Velvet & Soil’ offers nods to acts like The National or Grizzly Bear through bright pop melodies that emerge from dark, pulsing rhythms.”
– The Blue Indian, premiere of ‘Velvet & Soil’ EP.

“‘Brushes Like a Fox’ is detached yet weirdly cinematic, like that blank space behind your eyes when you’ve been staring at the TV too long in the dark, the sound up too loud. The effect is a song surreal and strange yet grounded in human life, the weirdness seeping not from space or some other dimension but from our own heads.”
– Various Small Flames, review of “Brushes Like A Fox.”

“‘Velvet & Soil seems to be a perfectly fitting name for the album. On it, the Savannah, Georgia-based band paints two seemingly contradictory sounds—one is a smooth, shimmering instrumental waltz, equally synthesized and organic, while the other is a voice whose gravelly drone draws the instruments back down to earth.”
– ThrdCoast, review of “Brushes Like A Fox.”

“…the album takes you on an ethereal journey, guided by a seemingly omniscient and impossible to ignore voice. The undeniable strength of each track, both individually and as a whole, is obvious when you find yourself contemplating and questioning the same mysteries of humans’ animalistic nature and the situations that puts us in, just as Carpenter does.”

“Cereal Pairing: Apple Jacks, with a higher milk ratio for the sweet apple cinnamony end game.”
– Cereal and Sounds, review of ‘Velvet & Soil’ EP.

“Like some burned-out meeting of polar opposites, informed by all the push and pull that comes with such encounters, the new track from LA’s Saint Corsair is part opulent pop song and part languid, withdrawn nightly mumble – and it makes for a consuming and stirring three minutes or so.”
– GoldFlakePaint, premiere of “Brushes Like A Fox."

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