World Sanguine Report Songs From The Harbour

'Songs From The Harbour' is World Sanguine Report's third studio album of original avant-rock and experimental ballads.

Featuring a new iteration of WSR, 'Songs From The Harbour' was created in partnership with long-standing collaborators of Andrew Plummer: Matthew Bourne, Ruth Goller, and Will Glaser.

The most direct WSR album to date, 'Songs From The Harbour' is aptly named. It has a riverside redolence, both musically and lyrically. From the opening lullaby, which breaks like dawn over a dirty Thames, there’s a sense of sunlight breaking through the clouds and playing on polluted water, of bracing salty air contrasting with the stench of the quayside, a tussle of purity and toxicity, light and shade, romance and desolation.

“This is the album I’ve wanted to make for more than twenty years, though the timing never felt quite right until now.

With this iteration of WSR, I wanted to move away from the theatrical approach of earlier albums, focusing instead on creating music that both the band and audiences could connect with and experience in a more immediate way. Previous complexities were set aside to create space for interpretation, time-feel, and interaction – guided by and laying bare our words and voices. Together we developed music that is honest, full of vibe and intention – dynamic and fluid, nuanced and deliberate, ignited with a sense of yearning and wildness.



Aquatic themes frequently reoccured, as if everything was drawing us to the river and ocean. We auspiciously recorded the majority of the album aboard the Lightship 95 Studios on the Thames. The ship moved us, the ship moved with us. The Thames lapped at the boat, its tides washing in the Lightship’s echo chamber, housed in the hull of the ship, made its way into the recordings.



Water has a way to find its way into everything, it seeks its own level. This iteration of WSR is, without doubt, the most intoxicating creative partnership I’ve ever been part of.” – Andrew Plummer



Sombre and sublime, seedy and spiritual, Songs From The Harbour proceeds from a low place and rises, gull- like, to great, circling heights.



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