The Last Whole Earth Catalog

“Like intrepid voyagers charting uncharted territories, this enigmatic artist traverses through music with boundless curiosity and creativity.” Still Listening Magazine

“Fervently melodic with jazzed-up folk inflections, The Last Whole Earth Catalog oscillate masterfully between moments of stark vulnerability and perfectly timed bursts of heavy bass and drums” So Young

Identified as part of the “Alternative Folk Revival” (So Young Magazine) earlier this year, The Last Whole Earth Catalog has been steadily gaining a cult-following in their adopted London home for “prolific and consistently surprising” (Hard of Hearing) output of meticulous, tightly wrapped and poignant songwriting.

Taking its name from an esoteric late-60s American counterculture magazine that collected reviews, how-to guides and product listings on a whole manner of topics from space travel, farming, and fashion, the Last Whole Earth Catalog’s range is similarly broad.  The brainchild of Northwich-raised Daniel HCW Parr, since 2012, has made its name for a beguiling blend of folk and indie-rock (think Conan Mockasin, Alex G or Sufjan Stevens), across 13 studio albums in nine years. Taking deep dives too into, jazz, experimental noise and glitchy electronica, every track  is notably performed, produced, mixed and mastered entirely by Parr himself.

With a flurry of achievements in the last 12 months, His recent spell of releases have ushered in a self-promoted, sold-out headline at The Shacklewell Arms in April, tours across The UK, The U.S and Canada, plus performances alongside contemporaries Tapir!, Ugly, Skydaddy, Mary in The Junkyard, The Magic Gang’s Gus Tiramani, and, most notably, with Crywank at Hackney’s EartH Hall last autumn.

Returning for his fourth single of 2024 - the final teaser of upcoming album ‘We’re All Down The Rabbit Hole’ due for release 30th July - ‘Every Single Little Piece’ is as fitting an introduction as any into The Last Whole Catalog’s journeyed repertoire. A glistening, ever-developing moment of pristine indie-folk fluorescence, what begins in the intimate isolation of acoustic guitar swiftly, and effortlessly blooms into a reverie of hop-skipping rhythms, delicate harmonies, blushing counterpoints. 

Offering further insight into the track, and his upcoming collection, Parr himself says says: “Every Single Little Piece is the final single for the upcoming album "We're all down the rabbit hole", in which The Last Whole Earth Catalog fits a set of very personal songs to a narrative of being sucked into a cult and then escaping. This song is post escape, managing to put those bad experiences into the past and looking to be more hopeful in life.”