Release Description
As their first vinyl release, No Windows present a limited run of their two releases with Fat Possum - The Great Traitor (2025) and Point Nemo (2024) - on one exclusive, double EP pressing. 500 copies available.
Since their formation in 2020, Edinburgh duo No Windows have followed a steep upward trajectory. Multi-instrumentalist Morgan Morris and lyricist Verity Slangen’s evocative blend of classic pop & folk has earned them widespread support from radio and press, as well as the coveted Sound of Young Scotland Award at the Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) Awards in 2023. In 2024, they signed to Fat Possum records at 18 and 19-years-old respectively, with just one self-released EP to their name.Their Point Nemo EP (2024), named after the most isolated location on Earth, explores themes of loneliness and alienation.
Coming via Fat Possum in early 2025, The Great Traitor EP expands No Windows’ sonic territory even further, leaving the more familiar indie traits behind in favour of lush, psychedelic arrangements that take their cues from 70s chamber pop (George Harrison, Leonard Cohen) and film score composer Jon Brion (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). Produced with Ali Chant (Dry Cleaning, Sorry, Yard Act), the recording process took them out of Morgan’s DIY bedroom set-up and into a studio, where they had access to a breadth of instruments that allowed for more exploration across the EPs six tracks.
Written after the release of Point Nemo, The Great Traitor marks a transitional period for No Windows, both as a band and as individuals. The songs came together while Morgan was in the process of deciding to drop out of university, while Verity had just started university and was adjusting to life there. For both of them, 2024 specifically “felt like the transition from adolescence to adulthood.” The EP reflects that in its blooming instrumentals and its emotional nuance. “When I wrote [the lyrics for] Point Nemo I was very much a teenager and very hormonal still. I think this EP is coming out of that a little bit,” Verity offers. “For me, it’s a mediation between being a younger person to being someone in my 20s who’s figuring things out a bit more.” The result is a series of heartfelt tracks that capture transient feelings at their most acute, while at the same time arranging them within the cinematic landscape of memory; an immortalisation of significant life events that have, for No Windows, already come and gone. “Our music has always felt quite nostalgic to me,” says Verity. “I think The Great Traitor sounds like a snapshot in time. A picture, almost, of how we were in that moment.”
Track Listing
Side A: The Great Traitor
- Brown Bear
- Return
- Tricky
- Sugarcoat
- Old Chain Pier
- Easter Island
Side B: Point Nemo
- Zodiac 13
- Bicycle
- Fibbs
- Small Flashing Light
- Song 01
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