DESCRIPTION:
Cian Ciarán, Sewn Up - Released Monday 16 September 2013 on Ample Play as a AA-side EP with Sleepless Nights and two, exclusive, non-album tracks.

Taken from the new album They Are Nothing Without Us, released on Monday 23 September 2013.

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"More than a decade into the third millennium, the human race is still fighting over territory, resources and arbitrary beliefs, all the while failing to recognise the erosion of the very fabric of our planet. Meanwhile in a studio in the Welsh capital, Cian Ciarán, known for twenty, ground-breaking years as the keyboard player and production wizard in the Super Furry Animals, begins to sense that now is a breakthrough moment for people to rise to their feet and say: enough is enough.

"Drawing on his love for all things electronic, Ciarán's recording and producing history as Acid Casuals and Paps earned him a reputation as the member of the Super Furries more often found experimenting with the beats and bleeps over traditional guitars, drums and bass. The assumption that his head and heart was irreversibly won only by techno failed to take into account production and playing credits with artists as diverse as Paul McCartney, Mogwai, Manic Street Preachers and Kaiser Chiefs. Ciarán has always remained a moving target.

"Fans and critics alike claimed both surprise and delight as he emerged into the spotlight under his own name in summer 2012 with the album, Outside In, a collection of songs that destroyed those assumptions that his individual output would forever be dance orientated. A collection of mellow songs that channelled John Lennon and the Beach Boys, the album paid respectful dues to his most profound musical influences while remaining an unmistakeable Cian Ciarán original.

"The scarcity of social consciousness and political awareness, not only in music, but in the actions and ambitions of the public of the British Isles if not the World and the morally and financially beleaguered West brings Ciarán to release his second album, They Are Nothing Without Us, released on Strangetown Records in Autumn 2013."