Gilroy Mere turns train journeys into Furlongs

Gilroy Mere released Furlongs via Clay Pipe Music on September 4. The project belongs to Oliver Cherer, who has also performed with the Miki Berenyi Trio. Travis Elborough reviewed the album at 6am on September 16, and a track from it is available to stream now.

Furlongs continues a series of mostly instrumental concept albums Cherer has created for the label, which is managed by illustrator and musician Frances Castle. Earlier releases focused on the defunct Green Line bus network, Adlestrop railway station, and the submerged Suffolk town of Dunwich. This album was partly written on train trips from Cherer's home in St Leonards to Brighton, where he was undergoing cancer treatment that the label calls successful.

The cover illustration depicts a young man holding a sketch pad and pencil, with the Long Man of Wilmington mirrored in the window next to him. Furlongs sits where the rest of the series sits, on a small label that has assembled one of the more consistent catalogues in English ambient folk.