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  Clubhouse Records recording artist Pete Gow returns with two brand new songs, his first since January's 'The Fragile Line' album.
  
  Released as a double a- side, 'Cheap and Shapeless Dress' and 'Happy Hour At the Lobby Bar' reunite Gow with producer Joe Bennett and a sound both reminiscent of the orchestral, genre- defying Americana that took fans and critics by storm in 2019 .... with the AMA- UK Album of the year nominee 'Here There's No Sirens' .... but also points toward a new direction for Gow's third album, due early next year.
  
  Just before the country was 'sent to its room' in early March to slow the spread of the Coronavirus pandemic, Gow and drummer Fin Kenny spent two days back at Farm Music Studios with Bennett, recording drums, guide vocals and guitars for a number of new compositions, the early stages of what should have been the next album.
  
  Bennett got to work on some of the more complete songs during lockdown, adding his bass, keyboards and now signature string and horn arrangements.
  
  The months passed… and with them, any hope there would be a new Pete Gow record in 2020, so Clubhouse Records pulled 'Cheap and Shapeless Dress' and 'Happy Hour At The Lobby Bar' from the album project to put them out as this stand- alone release ...
  
  ... and what a release it is; available only as a 45rpm single, a limited pressing on heavyweight vinyl (.. including a complimentary download with each purchase), the tracks will not be made available on any other digital platform, or physical format.
  
  'Happy Hour at the Lobby Bar' documents the meeting of two estranged friends, after decades apart. On the surface it's well intended, age and change bringing an uneasy rapprochement, but whatever unnamed events have shaped their separation and shared history, it will take more than the passage of time, or the cocktail menu at The Lobby Bar, to heal ... 'we moved the rug back to hide the drugs and found the dust we'd swept inside'.
  
  'Cheap And Shapeless Dress' is at once a musical antidote to 'Happy Hour...' a ramshackle celebration of the bacchanalia of youth, but on closer examination is no less emotionally visceral. 'Dry these tears, put a little make up on these fears and wear all these lies it's a little unwise to confess like a cheap and shapeless dress'. As in many of Gow's compositions, life and people are built upon layers ... layers to be peeled back and examine what hides beneath.
  
  A promotional video by Phil Perry and Danny Tipping accompanies each song. Shot on the last day of summer in the splendor of St. Michaels Church in Steventon, Oxfordshire... reuniting Gow with Bennett, Kenny and Tristan Tipping, and putting the band back together for one last time in this craziest of years.
  
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