Ahead of a new album, "The Marble Downs", recorded with Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Glasgow’s Trembling Bells returns with an eight-song vinyl-only EP. Entirely exclusive music, unique to this release, with a lovely silk-screened sleeve, the "Duchess EP" is effectively divided into two halves. The first is comprised of four songs from "The Marble Downs" sessions, with Will Oldham duetting with Trembling Bells singer Lavinia Blackwall.Anyone listening to the songs that comprise the other side of the "Duchess EP" would be forgiven for thinking they were newly unearthed trad. arrs. In fact, their genesis dates back to Neilson's chance encounter with vocal quintet Muldoon’s Picnic, at an open mic evening in Glasgow. Inspired by what he heard, Neilson very quickly wrote a number of songs, including those performed here by Muldoon’s Picnic, together with Alex and Lavinia.