L. Pierre - Movement I

The former mouthpiece for the now defunct Arab Strap (whose masterpiece, Monday at the Hug & Pint, echoes The Pogues), Aidan Moffat has had a productive year with his L. Pierre moniker with 2013 releases The Island Come True (The album takes it's name from a chapter from Peter & Wendy, and it too is grimmer than you probably remember: For all the adventure and wonder crammed into its few thousand words, the segment is littered with sorrow, longing and blood. Using crackling piano suites, field recordings, found loops and swelling bits of dusty classical pieces, Moffat has crafted something similarly antique and unexpectedly dark, a moving if not fractured album that feels congruent with Barrie's mix of the fantastic and the fearful. - Zach Kelly) and The Eternalist, a study in brevity released entirely on Twitter's Vine.  Now, he prepares for the release of a new EP, Surface Noise, of which Movement I is the first track.