The tenth studio album by the Glasgow folk-pop band is their first for seven years, and the first recorded in their home city since Fold Your Hands Child in 1999, sounding very much their usual wistful, gently melancholy but catchy selves. Despite the long gap Stuart Murdoch and co have still been busy since their last album, having released a trilogy of EPs; a soundtrack for the directorial debut of The Inbetweeners’ Simon Bird; the Boaty Weekender, a 3,000-capacity star-studded four-day music festival on a cruise liner sailing the Mediterranean; and a live album. But their new album is full of catchy tunes with sharp lyrics, and ticks all the B&S boxes – drily humorous ‘if-only-but-nevermind’ lyrics, dark but always beautifully upbeat. Highlights include Unnecessary Drama'; Young and Stupid; the fast Talk To Me, Talk To Me; the slower If They’re Shooting At You with that classic retro horn and organ sound and a gospel vocal backing in a number that is about an estranged father, but also points to the Ukraine war, with the video also linking to a fundraiser for Red Cross: Ukraine Relief; and the fragile doo-wop-style Sea Of Sorrow. Out on Matador Records.
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