A Supergroup Of Potentates With Only One Agenda The King Canutes Entertain With Seymour Stein (For Earle Holmes)

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A Supergroup Of Potentates With Only One Agenda The King Canutes Entertain With Seymour Stein (For Earle Holmes)

25/9/2025

The King Canutes
Seymour Stein (for Earle Holmes)
Brooklyn-London

A duo comprised of Keir Woods from the homely North of England and Richard Alwyn Fisher from the tower-lined streets of Brooklyn, The King Canutes bring an indie-folk mashup of sonic greatness. Accompanied by trumpeter Mac Gollehon, who’s worked alongside David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Al Jarreau, and Duran Duran, bass player Dave Derby from Gramercy Arms, Lloyd Cole, and Dam Busters, plus Guided by Voices drummer Kevin March and vocalist Jessie Kilguss, the full band is completed by Ray Ketchum from Guided by Voices, Luna, Elk City, and Gramercy Arms on keyboards and percussion. As one machine of multiple moving parts, from their international web of creative genius, comes the album Eastern Seaboard, Perfect Summer, on November 21st via Magic Door Records. Taken from the record is their new single, the rather intriguingly named Seymour Stein (for Earle Holmes). It sounds like something from a musical, shall we see?

A burst of brass and then a gust of the band breezes in and creates an upbeat, colourful, and dynamic music piece. The guitar and drum playfully coalesce with a chorus effect and rattling drumbeats that leap from the skin and into the air. Keir Woods offers a deep and resonant vocal that sinks in like wood polish as Jessie Kilguss produces harmony suitable for a cathedral. The song jogs along with a smiling face and a vivid imagination which manifests amply via bouncing chords and flowing vocal lines. Super.

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