'Home For Lost Souls' LP, by The Declining Winter

'Home For Lost Souls' LP

by The Declining Winter

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1.	This Sadness Lacks 04:59	buy track
2.	Home For Lost Souls 03:12	buy track
3.	Golden Terrace 02:27	buy track
4.	It Is Intensely Sad 02:26	buy track
5.	The Sweet Sound Of North 04:22	buy track
6.	When Things Mattered 02:43	buy track
7.	Fog Forming 01:44	buy track
8.	Hurled To The Curb 02:26	buy track
9.	Around The Winding Roads And Hills 04:37	buy track
10.	The Wild Girl Laughed 02:36	buy track
11.	Summer Circuit 01:38	buy track
12.	A Field Defunct 02:30	buy track
13.	The Right True End 07:45	buy track
14.	The Full Blown West 03:06	buy track

about

Richard Adams and his The Declining Winter
project return to Home Assembly Music with an impressive
second album for the label, ‘Home For Lost Souls’.

Taking it’s name from a hostel that Syd Barrett was
alleged to have stayed at in the early ‘70’s, the album’s title
points to the subject matters that concern Adams in his
songwriting. From the cost to one’s sanity at just making it
through another wearisome 9-5, to the ominous beauty
of the North Pennines landscape, and love in a time of
austerity.

But far from being austere, the 14 songs presented
here are generous, warm, deceptively simple, multilayered
compositions. From the upbeat openers, ‘This
Sadness Lacks’ and ‘Home For Lost Souls’, to whimsical
instrumentals, ‘Golden Terrace’ or ‘When Things
Mattered’, all the way through to the outrageously catchy
‘Hurled To The Curb’ or the melancholy introspection of
‘The Wild Girl Laughed’ and the quietly epic ‘The Right
True End’.

As you might expect from Adams, he wears his heart and
his influences on his sleeve. At times it feels like listening
to a glorious cross between Disco Inferno and Talk Talk,
Robert Wyatt and even Felt, with occasional smatterings
of Radiohead as well as a brief hint of PiL on the rustic,
‘The Summer Circuit’ and ‘A Field Defunct’.
credits

All songs written and played by R V Adams
Drums on 1, 2 and 9 by James Yates.
Vocals on 2, 9, 11 by Joanne Ellis.
Lovingly tweaked by Barrie Cummings, mastered by Antony Ryan at Red Paw Paw

Photography Tony Cole, Richard Adams. Layout: HAM

Thanks to James Yates, Joanne Ellis, Barrie Cummings, Tony Cole, Chris Adams. M&D, Northerner

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released March 23, 2015

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