We Dream In Sound #01. Two track single. Made at home.

"We dream in 45!!! We all love singles, don’t we? You know, with artwork (remember those Smiths singles), an A-side and a B-side, those capsules sent to us weekly by artists we barely knew. Singles can be everything and nothing, you can write a manifesto from them, or just dance, or listen to the wonky B-side that makes no sense on repeat. So far the Treehouse Orchestra Recordings has only released E.P.’s and albums, but now we want to take that twisted jukebox aesthetic further. Over the next twelve months we will endeavour to release a single each month for free download, each release will have an A-side and B-side and artwork, it will be just like those seven inch records you couldn’t part with even though you didn’t have a record player any more. It’s a salute to those pre-Beatles Joe Meek singles, to Motown and Stax, to Nuggets, to Rough Trade, K and D.F.A. and all those other labels and artists who dreamed in 45. Go dance, and if you can’t pour yourself a stiff one, then do it again……." - Marc Gillen.

"Happy new year to you all out there who still dream in 45 and welcome to our twelve month journey to explore the delights and possibilities of the pop single. Every month in 2012 we will release a single from the artists here at Treehouse Orchestra. When I say single, I of course mean a 7" plastic disc to be played at 45rpm with a song on each side (A and B or double A if you're really lucky), contained in a sleeve with a cool cover which makes you just want to buy it (whether you like the picture or the design, the name of the band, the song titles, whatever) or because you heard it on the radio or because a friend won't stop raving about it. Whatever it is, you have to hand over your money and take it home. Because that's what we're talking about here, the experience we're trying to recreate, the artifact that we wish to celebrate and invoke. You Have it in your hands now.

January's offering comes courtesy of The Nightowl Sings and it illustrates pretty much straightaway exactly what I'm talking about. Side one is "Start of the Century". A call to arms, a 'word up' - but one you can dance to! It whoops, it hollers, it makes a noise and it wants you to move your feet and shake your body. Hell, it wants you to know you're alive and, for god's sake, have a good time. It is resolutely lo-fi, romantic and pleased as fuck to be here. Then flip the record over and you have "Sadcore Bedroom Hitz" - more reflective, perhaps a little melancholy - part memoir/part manifesto/part affirmation (remember the Breakfast Club and the Berlin Wall coming down - of course you do). This is a life, a way of looking at the world. Both songs do what the pop song does at it's best. What it's saying and how it says it are really the same thing. It is what it does. So live with these songs for a while and take them into your hearts. Ladies and gentlemen, this is pop!!!" - David Thompson.