Duncan Lloyd - Green Grows Devotion (Selected Works) (Corner dink at bottom left of sleeve)

A collection of works spanning more than a decade from Duncan Lloyd, co-founder and guitarist of Maxïmo Park.

Early last year in that strange sort of limbo of a time, I was releasing songs as & when I’d finished messing around with them.

It was kind of therapeutic to work as a musician in a more spontaneous way, no deadline or pressure other than to create songs that were a standard I was happy with and as a reaction to whatever was happening at that point. I started to build an album of these songs with no planned finishing point, making music to escape the strange days. Around the same time I received a message from Tom at Reveal Records asking if I’d like to release a compilation of my solo work. I already knew of Reveal Records as it is based back in my home town of Derby but even though we had lost touch over the years, I remembered Tom had been an enthusiastic early supporter of Maximo Park (we played a couple of in store sessions at his record shop around our first two albums). In fact our paths had crossed way before that even because I used to go into his shop as a young kid in the 90’s (saving up my pennies to buy records by Sonic Youth and Pixies and U.S. import Lemonheads t shirts).

That all informed my path to becoming a musician so it feels fitting & fortunate that things have come full circle & we are now working together.

1. Branca Drive

2. Heads Of The Bastille

3. Red Moon

4. Freak Facade

5. Dear O

6. Cathedral Doors (Transit IV)

7. Historic Elements

8. Impossible To Define

9. Outside Notion (featuring Sarah Suri)

10. Sam (Demo #2)

11. Filler In The Bodywork

12. A Chime