Starter List: Mersault

Sundays are for starter lists, especially Scottish bands!

So, I know I can’t share a Scottish band every Sunday. I’d run out in a few months. But today’s starter list comes after a long week and an unplanned and unintended shitty Saturday, so I’m going for a comfort listen and share with Mersault.

Mersault, Something Special AND Scottish

Mersault were another lucky find. I swapped mix CDs with a coworker back when I worked at the television station, in 2008-9. Yes, I worked on the web design and marketing team at a local television station. And ended up with a weekly segment and lots of small special segments. I never planned to be “talent.” Maybe one of these days I’ll share video from those days past. Maybe.

Back to my coworker, Jake. He made me several stellar mix CDs and “Salt (Pt. 1)” happened to be on one of them. I was hooked on the song, the singer, and the sound. But it took several years before I did a deeper dive and dig into their discography.

Neil Pennycook’s voice can certainly be described as warbling, but there’s something so wonderful, wonky, and warm about it. The mix of warm folk mixed with electronic bits and bots shouldn’t work so well, but it does, beautifully.

I could wax rhapsodic for several more paragraphs, or I could let you listen and make your own call on the marvel that is Mersault. I hope you love them as much as I do.

The Playlists

Listen with Apple Music:
https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/starter-list-mersault/pl.u-76oN9AbuvX23KaV

Listen with Tidal:
https://tidal.com/browse/playlist/6c7ecba7-c2f5-4f46-8d09-574a8a9473eb

And that’s this starter list done. I hope it starts a love for Scottish music, Mersault in particular. I’d love to know what you think.