Stop the World

4 songs. Resolutely self-determining, The Bitter Springs have been writing, recording, and performing their music for more than 20 years. 4 albums and 6 singles along the line - recorded for the highly regarded VESPERTINE, DISHY, WURLITZER JUKEBOX and, ahem, ACUARELA- the Springs' prolific song writing and emphatic recording, accompanied by critical acclaim, continues... Chesty coughs, crumpled duvets and terminal trips to the vet. Yes, for Bitter Springs, it's all about living the dream.

Five men who seem to have spent more than a few quiet evenings in with disenchantment, they are unsurprisingly still a bit touchy about their 'noble failures' tag. This new exclusive EP on Acuarela (after the praised "Best Bakers on the island" of late 2000) speaks of squalid, chilly dressing rooms, carbon monoxide poisoning from hired rivers, the worrying creep of time and an admirably stubborn refusal to give it up. Belonging to that tenderly blokeish subgenus who see life half through the b