Various Artists – Ardeer Peninsula

Varios Artists
Ardeer Peninsula
Slipping
UK, 2025
Cassette

The brand new Slipping label out of Saltcoats, Scotland is off to a faultless start with this cozy, coherent, comfortingly shopworn compilation rounding up tracks from favorite artists new and old.

FROM THE LABEL:

Ardeer Peninsula is a tape of guitar music. 15 tracks. 15 artists. 

The peninsula is quiet. Dunes stretch with the wind. Salt marshes smell of wet earth and old water. Birds move across the sky. Bees hover. Sometimes the place is empty. Sometimes all you hear is the hum of insects and the scrape of sand underfoot. 

Walking along paths that are overgrown. Like standing still and noticing small things: a blade of grass, a rustle of leaves, a crow far away. Some tracks are sharp, some soft, some linger. Each one finds a piece of the place. Each one notices something slightly different. 

Ardeer used to be something else. Factories and explosives. Now it is alive in quiet ways. The ground hums with plants, insects, wind. You can feel it if you pay attention. The tape tries to catch that feeling. Not exactly, not literally, but enough to know it is there. 

It is music to walk with. To sit with. To think of a place that exists and changes, that is remembered and present. 

I would like to thank everyone who helped me put this together but in particular Kata Szász-Komlós, Lee Strain and Gary Taylor. 

Eco-friendly printing by Peaceful Dove Press. 

Collected and curated by Steven Kerr.