I Build Collapsible Mountains
“Last summer I spent a month fighting with myself about where I was, where I had been and where I was going,” Luke G Joyce, of I Build Collapsible Mountains reveals about the origin of his one-man band’s recordings on previous introductory Burning Buildings Recordings EP and new eleven song full length The Spectator & The Act. “I had spent most of my life bottling up my emotions and hiding that bottle away in a sturdy cupboard. But that bottle was at breaking point. There was no rhyme or reason. A blast from my past was possibly the spark that set the whole thing in motion. For a month I wrote nonstop.”
I Build Collapsible Mountains is Scottish musician Joyce. Yet his self-produced The Spectator & The Act sounds as if it could have been made by a bravely confessional and literate lad from anywhere (say, the American Pacific NW), and any place basement bards have written out their hearts and practiced hard enough on beloved instruments to please anyone’s ears. Joyce's vivid songs about sailors and deeply unrequited love were started soon after he graduated art school where he studied fine art photography. Joyce has photographed many bands and artists such as Mogwai, Ian Rankin, Franz Fedinand, and RM Hubbert, and also shoots music videos and short films. “I suffer quite badly from dyslexia and find it hard to read so most of what I do is a visual media.”
"His music is what I like to listen to when I'm come home from a mad day's work. It's sincere and radiates an assuring warmth." - The Guardian UK
"...a raw, emotional, and genuine record." - Putabirdonitmusic
"This isn’t just another acoustic artist; I Build Collapsible Mountains is like fire on a landscape. Joyce’s vocals have the most exquisite gravel to them that is not only melancholy delight, but you almost fall in love through listening" - Glasgow Podcart
"Bittersweet and thought provoking. Each song tells a story that you wish would never end and Luke’s voice emits a gravelly sweetness which is sure to lure in listeners." - Favourite Son
"Emotive and Thematic" - Totally Crushed Out Mag
RIYL: Mansions, Jose Gonzalez, Owen, Damien Rice
TRY: #1, 3, 5, 10
i build collapsible mountains - face of thunder grin by peenko
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