The Nightingales ‎– Perish the Thought (Vinyl)

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Label: Tiny Global Productions ‎– PICI-0020-LP
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Country: UK
Released: 05 Oct 2018
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock

Tenth studio album by British band The Nightingales. It was recorded in May 2018 at the Faust Studio, Scheer, Germany.

Tracklist
A1 Wrong Headed Man
A2 The World And His Wife
A3 Enemy Of Promise
A4 Lucky Dip
A5 Chaff
A6 Eventually

B1 Big Dave
B2 Zero At The Bone
B3 You Don’t Know What You’re Doing
B4 The Last Minute
B5 (I’m A) People Person
B6 It Is

Description

Label: Tiny Global Productions ‎– PICI-0020-LP
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Country: UK
Released: 05 Oct 2018
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock

It’s unusual for an act to hit its peak after four decades. Yet here it is. The Nightingales emerge as the industrious ant to their peers’ workshy grasshopper personae, appearingvictoriously at the finish line to puzzled realisations that they’d ever even been in the race. The Nightingales have notoriously had a new label for each new album, a fact which might reasonably call for consumer caution, but they don’t fit in with anything like a scene,they speak their own musical language, and while they bust out slogans about being “slightly superior to others of their ilk” . . . the truthis, they have no ilk.

Faust’s Hans-Joachim Irmler adds keyboards and The Lovely Eggs’ Holly Blackwell’s languid voice features on onesong, but the album’s real shock is that the band has now gelled to an unspoken, nearly psychic interplay. Captain Beefheart, one of Robert Lloyd’s musical heroes, is best known for the difficult-but-classic Trout Mask Replica, and like that album, this one contains narya ‘hit’, yet here every song sticks in the brain and grooves . . . outclassing Beefheart’s masterpiece with its effortless charm. John Peel noted, “Their performances will serve to confirm their excellence when we are far enough distanced from the 1980s to look at the period rationally and other, infinitely better known, bands stand revealed as charlatans”. It’s doubtful he would have bothered with such a pre-emptive defence if he’d been able to witness the explosive growth of the band during their second incarnation.

Tracklist
A1 Wrong Headed Man
A2 The World And His Wife
A3 Enemy Of Promise
A4 Lucky Dip
A5 Chaff
A6 Eventually

B1 Big Dave
B2 Zero At The Bone
B3 You Don’t Know What You’re Doing
B4 The Last Minute
B5 (I’m A) People Person
B6 It Is

 

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