Singing Loins - ...Here on Earth

  by Benjamin Howarth

published: 12 / 10 / 2012

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Singing Loins claim to be “the world’s longest serving, truly amateur, original musical group’. The band didn’t form as such, as much as they started ‘having a laugh’ together. That was twenty years ago, and since then there have been twelve albums. Known amongst locals in Kent for their raucous pub-shows, playing folk songs with wild abandon and punk songs with folk instruments, the Singing Loins are a subtler beast on record. ‘Happy Me Up’ might be the kind of loose-limbed drinking song designed to whip a crowd of merry strangers, but it is preceded by a sensitive ballad, ‘Close Your Eyes’. ‘Drunk & Fed’ is perhaps the album’s defining track, despite being the only track written by guitarist Chris (Arfur) Allen alone – about the other side of a wild night out and about “the ending that we all dread”. Like many of their songs, it looks starkly at heartbreak and mental illness. But the true highlight is ‘Alien’, which begins as a simple folk ditty, before stampeding itself into a bawling rock epic. This is the best example of what the band call their new ‘bigger, ballsier’ sound with a double-bass adding a doom-laden depth to this ghoulish crescendo.

Track Listing:-

1 Hello Heaven
2 Monsters Ashore
3 Crying Out Loud
4 My Darling
5 Harbour Wall (St Ives)
6 Crown of Roses
7 Close Your Eyes
8 Happy Me Up
9 Drunk & Fed
10 Try
11 Alien
12 With All Your Blessed Heart

Label Links:-

http://www.damagedgoods.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/DamagedGoodsRecords/
https://www.youtube.com/user/Damgoodrecords
https://twitter.com/DAMAGEDGOODSREC
https://plus.google.com/108116426226489991283

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