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The Seance at Hobs Lane out now

The Séance at Hobs Lane by Mount Vernon Arts Lab is available now. The latest in an ongoing series of Ghost Box back catalogue re-issues comes on heavyweight vinyl with free download code card.

It's the hauntology classic that refuses to be exorcised. In 2001, musical medium Drew Mulholland poured his love of Delia Derbyshire & 'Quatermass And The Pit' into a record that inadvertently inspired the founding of the Ghost Box imprint and the creation of an entire genre.
Bob Fischer, Electronic Sound

The project's title alone twitches and seethes with enough occult and pop cult references to set the senses reeling. Everything is darkly alive, and with VCS3 synthesizer, theremin and guitar he conjures up sinister whirring vibrations that seem to come from deep beneath the ground.
Ken Hollings, The Wire

Mulholland has help from a cast of big-hitting collaborators, including Portishead’s Adrian Utley, Belle & Sebastian’s Isobel Campbell and Add N To (X)’s Barry 7, and the result is a master study in psychogeographical electronic composition, immersing the listener in murky, eerily resonant subterranean nether-worlds.
Carl Griffin, Electronic Sound

...distils that retro yet future sound that Ghost Box specialise in. Get this album and have your own séance on a wet afternoon, or take it for a drift walk.
Graham Domke, Map Magazine

Mount Vernon Arts Lab is the lifelong, ever mutating, experimental art and music project of Glasgow’s Drew Mulholland (pictured below). Séance was his fifth and possibly his most ambitious album, with a large number of talented artists co-writing and performing: John Balance (Coil) on HobgoblinsNorman Blake (Teenage Fanclub) on The Mandrake Club, Isobel Campbell (Belle & Sebastian) on The Black DropBarry 7 (Add N to X) on The Submariner’s Song and Adrian Utley (Portishead) on Warminster 4.  Also taking part were saxophonist Raymond MacDonald and broadcaster and producer John Cavanagh.

Artwork is by Julian House and beautifully evocative sleeve notes are courtesy of Lawrence Norfolk (author of Lemprière’s Dictionary, The Pope’s Rhinoceros & Saturnall’s Feast.)

27th March 2025