Our Music
Ascendez Vous by Is Shepherd 2008
Recorded over the course of the past year ‘Ascendez Vous’ is the debut collection of 5 songs from Is Shepherd.
1. Time
2. Waitress
3. Hit the Horizontal
4. On/Off
5. The Stretcher Bearer
This CD release is available now in the following record shops in Newcastle: Alt.Viynl, RPM, Reflex, Beatdown, Roots Music. The initial run are available in a limited edition gatefold, ‘hand-made’ sleeves with colour photos.
MP3’s will be available to purchase either on this site, or via iTunes once we figure out how all that works, in the meantime enjoy the tunes on the MP-Tree player.
Reviews for the CD are coming in thick and fast now. Here are just some comments and links:
“’Time’ and ‘Waitress’ both have an uplifting quality about them and there is an overwhelming sense of optimism about the whole CD.… ‘Ascendez-Vous’ then, a collection of 5 classic songs expertly committed to CD”
“Is Shepherd are one of those bands who are familiar, and yet completely new all on their own… Waitess is a brilliantly accessible song, and could easily be one of the “I-recognise-that-it’s-off-an-advert” tunes which start off as an underground hit but six months later if you haven’t heard it, your friends no longer know you.”
“Is Shepherd demonstrate with the five tracks on their debut, ‘Ascendez-Vous’, that they have firm ideas about what they want to be, and how they want to present themselves. Self-releasing your music is not usually a guarantee of polish, either in production or packaging, but Is Shepherd deliver a set of songs that don’t lack for depth and interest in their execution, or, for what it’s worth, a solid, charming aesthetic in their CD sleeve.”
