A beautiful new album collecting unreleased recordings made during sessions at Britannia Row Studios in 2003. Amongst Hewerdine's 'found sounds' from an afternoon looking through boxes are early versions of two of his classic songs (Muddy Water and Geography) that six years later would appear on the much loved God Bless The Pretty Things album. Open also gives fans a chance to hear delicate acoustic studio recordings of concert favourites such as Microfilm and Name. Further proof it were needed, that Boo Hewerdine ranks amongst the very best English songwriters working today. "One of the country's most consistently admired songwriters' Folk Radio UK "Classic, melody-driven songs which would have been gobbled up by Tin Pan Alley in another era - a soothing antidote to the frantic madness of modern times" BBC Music