Ultimate Painting, Ryley Walker, Go-Betweens, Bill Fay, John Cale, Terry Allen. Features guest appearances by members of Woods, Promised Land Sound & EZTV. Front cover illustration by Andrew Savage (Parquet Courts). Jack Cooper of Ultimate Painting's first solo record is 9 concisely beautiful songs inspired by his hometown of Blackpool and his upbringing on England's Fylde Coast. 'Everyone's from somewhere,' says Jack. 'I don't think it's particularly important people know this album is about Blackpool, but I think everyone can empathise with the themes on the record.' Evoking the delicate but often widescreen musicality of Bill Fay and the abstract lyricism of the late 60s Scott Walker records, as well as the more experimental sounds of John Cale and Robert Wyatt, Sandgrown is a collection of tranquil ballads that evoke feelings of nostalgia and re-evaluation about where you come from, wherever that may be. Jack spent the first 13 years of his life living in the rural village of Poulton-le- Fylde, about five miles outside Blackpool.