Signed to Domino Records, Seamus Fogarty left his home in the West of Ireland in 2009 and ended up in Anstruther performing at the legendary Homegame festival. His debut album, hailed by the Irish Times as "one of the best Irish albums of recent years", was released on Fence Records in 2012 leading to a slot on the main stage of Greenman and tours alongside James Yorkston, Pictish Trail and Malcolm Middleton. Having spent the following two years touring the UK and Europe, he released an EP Ducks & Drakes on another Scottish label, Lost Map, in 2015. Gideon Coe from BBC6 Music proclaimed the title track to be "one of the songs of the summer" while Max Rheinheart from BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction proclaimed it the work of an "Electroacoustic Wickerman".