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████ YEAR....[ 2012 QUALiTY.[ 320kbps ████
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████ PLAYTIME[ 48:45 min REL.DATE[ 04.07.2012 ████
████ TRACKS..[ 10 RiPPER..[ TEAM OMA ████
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████ 01 I Made A Date (with an Open Vein) 06:35 ████
████ 02 I Can Tell You're Leaving 04:37 ████
████ 03 Ferrari in A Demolition Derby 04:17 ████
████ 04 Ain't Nothing Wrong with A Little Longing 06:58 ████
████ 05 Excursions into Assonance 04:24 ████
████ 06 Every Time I Close My Eyes (We're Back There) 05:53 ████
████ 07 Love is A Velvet Noose 03:41 ████
████ 08 My Husband's Got No Courage in Him 02:19 ████
████ 09 Riding 03:14 ████
████ 10 Lord Bless All 06:47 ████
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████ ████
████ ôI didnÆt know anything about Trembling Bells. ████
████ I just heard them and was knocked out. I ████
████ instantly became a fan.ö Paul Weller ████
████ ôTrembling Bells are my kind of band.ö Joe ████
████ Boyd "Jesus fucking shit! These jamz claw so ████
████ hard at the tatties below methinks the Lord ████
████ misnamed them, having intended to say ████
████ Trembling BALLS." Will Oldham ôA poetic ████
████ incantation of British identity far brighter ████
████ than Michael Gove's GCSE syllabus.ö Stewart ████
████ Lee ôThis time, IÆm attempting to reclaim the ████
████ art of songwriting from the charity shop ████
████ bargain bin.ö Alex Neilson Just four years ████
████ after their debut album Carbeth, Trembling ████
████ Bells are amassing a formidable body of work ████
████ at a startling velocity. Just twelve months ████
████ after the release of their critically ████
████ acclaimed third album The Constant Pageant, ████
████ the Glasgow quartet return to share the ████
████ billing with a similarly restless creative ████
████ spirit. A few thousand miles separate Will ████
████ Oldham and Trembling BellsÆ drummer and ████
████ principal songwriter Alex Neilson, but their ████
████ stories intersect as far back as 2005, when ████
████ the young Leeds-raised Neilson found himself ████
████ playing drums on Alasdair RobertsÆ No Earthly ████
████ Man, with Oldham producing. In time, a ████
████ friendship between mentor and student became ████
████ one between two kindred musicians. Neilson ████
████ augmented his work with free-psych-drone ████
████ practitioners Directing Hand by playing with ████
████ the Bonnie 'Prince' Billy band. The drummerÆs ████
████ eagerness to experience new epiphanies yielded ████
████ unforgettable memories. In Big Sur, he ████
████ recalls, ôwe took mushrooms at midnight, then ████
████ visited a natural hot spring built into the ████
████ dramatic cliffs overlooking the Pacific ocean. ████
████ The stars were as vivid as frozen fireworks.ö ████
████ All of which is worth dwelling on, because ████
████ without that background of mutual openness and ████
████ empathy, itÆs hard to imagine The Marble Downs ████
████ existing. Neilson recalls a conversation about ████
████ a ôcollaborationö in the summer of 2010, ████
████ though stresses that it ôwas nothing too ████
████ formal at firstö. By the end of that year, a ████
████ limited-edition seven-inch New YearÆs Eve Is ████
████ The Loneliest Night of the Year showed what an ████
████ inspired match the vocals of Trembling Bells ████
████ singer Lavinia Blackwall and Will Oldham made. ████
████ The cut-glass precision of the ████
████ classically-trained student of medieval music ████
████ and the worldly, careworn tones of Oldham ████
████ created an unlikely chemistry. It must have ████
████ seemed that way to Neilson too. He set about ████
████ assembling a cache of songs with the purpose ████
████ of further harnessing that chemistry. The ████
████ result is an album that has, once again, ████
████ redrafted the boundaries of what Trembling ████
████ Bells can achieve together. Indeed, ████
████ genre-lines arenÆt terribly helpful this time ████
████ around. Yes, Trembling BellsÆ love affair with ████
████ traditional music remains a constant ù most ████
████ emphatically so on the unaccompanied ████
████ Blackwall/Oldham two-hander, My HusbandÆs Got ████
████ No Courage In Him. Then there is Blackwall's ████
████ musical setting of Dorothy Parker's poem ████
████ Excursion Into Assonance ù and the ████
████ thorough-going new-found classicism of ████
████ NeilsonÆs increasingly assured songwriting. ████
████ Albeit delivered with Trembling BellsÆ ████
████ rain-lashed sense of abandon, Love Is A Velvet ████
████ Noose sounds like a standard of sorts ù a ████
████ warped consequence of NeilsonÆs increasing ████
████ fascination with the songbooks of Cole Porter ████
████ and Hoagy Carmichael. ôIÆm not saying I stand ████
████ any chance of emulating them,ö he adds, ôbut ████
████ the appreciation is definitely there.ö The ████
████ knowledge that Oldham and Blackwall would be ████
████ sharing centre-stage on The Marble Downs gave ████
████ Neilson extra impetus to flex his songwriting ████
████ muscles. I Can Tell YouÆre Leaving finds both ████
████ vocalists on irresistible form, dissecting ████
████ their dying relationship with no heed to the ████
████ otherÆs feelings. ôYou treat me like a child,ö ████
████ sings Oldham. ôI need a man,ö she responds, ████
████ barely catching breath. ôNow like Merle ████
████ Haggard, youÆll see the fighting side of me,ö ████
████ he later promises. ôI guess thatÆs one of the ████
████ lighter moments on the album,ö ponders ████
████ Neilson, ôI was trying to get a Planet ████
████ Waves-era Bob Dylan feel there, with the piano ████
████ and walking bassline.ö Here and elsewhere, the ████
████ band ù Blackwall, Neilson, bassist Simon Shaw ████
████ and guitarist Mike Hastings ù has never ████
████ sounded more psychically attuned to one-other. ████
████ On the slow-reveal sonic establishing shot of ████
████ I Made A Date (With An Open Vein), two minutes ████
████ of manic modal chaos elapses before Oldham ████
████ takes the narrative reins of a majestic ████
████ call-and-response folk-rock epic. The ████
████ electrifying free-folk portent of Riding ù a ████
████ revival of the Palace Brothers classic ù is no ████
████ less compelling, calling to mind the words of ████
████ broadcaster Stuart Maconie when he praised ████
████ Trembling Bells for their ability to invoke ████
████ simultaneously ôthe charm of folk music and ████
████ the power of rock.ö Ditto AinÆt Nothing Wrong ████
████ With A Little Longing, in which Neilson slams ████
████ down a four-to-the-floor beat over a synergy ████
████ of demonic krautrock keys and a dialogue ████
████ between Oldham and Blackwall that scales Nancy ████
████ & Lee levels of romantic intrigue. With nine ████
████ songs gone and one remaining, the album's ████
████ sonic undulations find an arresting denouement ████
████ in the form of an inspired cover. Adapted from ████
████ Robin GibbÆs 1970 solo masterpiece RobinÆs ████
████ Reign, Lord Bless All sees Trembling Bells ████
████ tease out the hymnal qualities of GibbÆs ████
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