James’ first solo record since 2014’s Cellardyke Recording and Wassailing Society (CRAWS) and follows the two collaborative albums he made as one third of Yorkston/Thorne/Khan as well as the release of his debut novel Three Craws in 2016.The Route to the Harmonium (or, ‘the search for peace’) is intensely personal; it’s the sound of home, of undisturbed craftmanship.Overlaying vocal and guitar tracks, adding further with Dulcitones, harmoniums and autoharps, with nyckelharpa, the distinctive Swedish stringed instrument given to him by a friend. This is Yorkston’s world and could be nowhere else in music.

• 1. Your Beauty Could Not Save You
• 2. The Irish Wars of Independence Edit View
• 3. Like Bees To Foxglove
• 4. Shallow
• 5. The Blue of the Thistle
• 6. Brittle
• 7. My Mouth Ain't No Bible
• 8. Solitary Islands All
• 9. The Villages I Have Known My Entire Life
• 10. Oh Me, Oh My
• 11. Yorkston Athletic
• 12. A Footnote To an Epitaph