• Sale
  • £10.99
  • Regular price
  • Unavailable Available to buy

Product Info

Limited LP : Gold Vinyl 

More Info

‘Dreams’ is the second of the final trilogy of albums by critical darlings The Real Tuesday Weld following last year's acclaimed noir-themed ‘Blood'. This collection references late sixties songwriting a la Lee Hazlewood, Jimmy Webb and Burt Bacharach with nods to Flaming Lips and Tin Pan Alley, all mixed up with hazy lo-fi electronica, ghostly atmospherics and cinematic instrumentals. Guest vocalists A Girl Called Eddy, Sephine Llo and Oriana Curls provide a counterpoint to main man Stephen Coates' Gainsbourg-like crooning.

Continuing the band's long preoccupation with dreams, the songs were written in the early morning or late evening on 'either side' of sleep: ‘I’d rise super early and go straight to it with the emotion of the night’s imaginings still heavy on me or work in that strange space-time just before sleep claims us”. The album is sequenced in an approximation of a life, from youth to age, with the band’s perennial focus on London, love, the English landscape and time passing. ‘Bone Dreams Blood’ in particular is a sonic memorial to friends loved and lost in the life of London.

Tracklist

1 The Young Ones
2 Kinky Love
3 Bone Dreams Blood
4 I Awoke to Find I was Dreaming
5 Ever After
6 Lost Endeavour
7 Curtain Call
8 Comme Dans un Reve
9 Bodhisattva of the Gulag
10 Everything
11 Last Light