His Clancyness – Always Mist: Revisited (2012)

Splendour announce the re-issuing of the re-mastered edition of His Clancyness’ debut LP ‘ALWAYS MIST’, which was originally released in 2010 in a run of 100 tapes (via Mirror Universe). Splendour, in co-operation with Italian label Secret Furry Hole, will be re-issuing this release digitally and on vinyl with 7 additional tracks.
All tracks were originally recorded at the Clancy residence in Bologna but have been re-mastered by Carl Saff (Real Estate, Julian Lynch, How to Dress Well) in Chicago. The A side is the original track listing of the tape recorded between 2009-2010 and the B side is a collection of other tracks that have been floating around the internet recorded and released from 2009-2011. The B side includes covers of Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, the Everly Brothers and My Bubba & Mi.



The original release was chosen in Altered Zones’ Tapes of the Year in 2010, where Transparent had this to say, “His Clancyness is Jonathan Clancy of Bologna, Italy via Ottawa, Canada. Always Mist, his first full-length release, is a tender, clean, and consoling collection of snug little dream-pop blankets to ball up in, marked by gliding harmonies into which Clancy injects his rich, wistful sigh. These are not songs that demand a great deal of insight. In fact, there’s no need for understanding at all; the simple arrangements and heartbreak hooks bypass the nerd-centres, burrowing straight through the chest only to manifest themselves two minutes or so later as lumps in the throat and knots in the stomach.”
Jonathan Clancy is also the frontman of A Classic Education (Lefse) and has released splits with the likes of Shimmering Stars (Hardly Art) and the Babies (Vivian Girls/ Woods) in recent months.. Clancy was born in Ottawa and raised between Canada and Italy, swinging back and forth between the two countries up until his late teenage years. His music can be sometimes seen as a combination of this restlessness, he records alone, often at night, to create songs that take the most compelling attributes of the past fifty years of Western pop, and turns them into something his own. Weird pop outbursts, dreamy melodies, fuzzy guitars, psychedelic textures and warm beats are some of the elements that make up his particular brand of rocknroll.