Curbside Lambsear

Curbside Lambsear is a collaboration between Annabelle Mödlinger and Magdalena McLean, performing at The Abbey Manchester, a Manchester venue that hosts concerts and shows.

Curbside Lambsear brings together Annabelle Mödlinger and Magdalena McLean, whose music draws on pop, folk and improvisation, with threads of drone, dub and post-punk running through it. The project started as a shared attempt to write music together: the two began by trying out unfamiliar instruments and learning to record and compose in digital audio workstations, and the approach has stayed experimental, with rough edges kept on purpose.

Their songs are built slowly in the studio from a mixed pile of material. Notes made on a phone, short verses drafted during journeys, field recordings, looped samples, rehearsal voice memos and string lines are layered, moved around and recombined, and some of these fragments eventually settle into finished songs. The result is closer to collage than to a conventional songwriting process.

The night takes place at The Abbey Manchester, a venue in the city that hosts concerts and shows, and suits listeners interested in experimental pop and folk built from found sounds and studio experiments.