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Grasscut is award-winning composer/singer/producer Andrew Phillips, and manager/musician Marcus O’Dair. Their latest album 'Overwinter' follows ‘Everyone Was A Bird’ (2015), also on Lo Recordings, and two albums on Ninja Tune; ‘1 Inch: ½ Mile’ (2010) and ‘Unearth’ (2012). All three releases have been critically acclaimed, with 6Music’s Tom Robinson naming their debut one of his top 13 albums of all time. 'Overwinter' comes with artwork by designer / photographer Pedr Browne. The limited edition bundle features a set of 10 original stereoscopic (‘Victorian 3D’) images, together with stereo specs through which to view them. This was inspired in part by a commission Grasscut received in 2018 to work with the Wessex Film and Sound Archive. This resulted in a film, to be released in 2021, and inspired the track ‘The Archive’, with its sense of stored memories, hugely relevant to our current moment, decaying in the dark on tape and celluloid. The stereoscopic specs, similarly, offer an old lens through which to view the present. Grasscut have collaborated with musicians including Robert Wyatt (O’Dair wrote Wyatt’s authorised biography in 2014), John Surman, Kronos Quartet, Gazelle Twin, Seb Rochford of Polar Bear, and BAFTA-winning film director Daniel Vernon. Since opening the main stage at the Big Chill in 2009, they have played extensively in Europe, at venues including the Pompidou Centre, as well as at the Royal Albert Hall, ICA, Koko and Tate Britain.