Mugginton Lane End Lavinia Blackwall (Trembling Bells) SKU: STLTN01 Barcode: STLTN01 22.00 £22.00 Genre: Folk Label: Stilton Released Date: 29th May 2020 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info The British singer’s impeccable debut captures the joys and sorrows of spring with traces of 1970s folk May Day — when this album is released — is both a celebration of joy and fertility and a cry for help. The same duality runs through Muggington Lane End, the debut solo album from Lavinia Blackwall, who as the lead singer of Trembling Bells navigated improvisatory psychedelia piled on top of traditional-adjacent melodies; her trained operatic soprano was the centre of the maelstrom unleashed by Alex Neilson, the band’s guiding spirit and lover of what she described as “scratchy-scratchy nonsense”. The album’s Rocket Cottage-style artwork stakes a kinship with the inward-turned folk of the 1970s, when the first flush of Fairport, Steeleye Span and Pentangle had become unfashionable and their songwriters and alumni ploughed a sometimes lonely furrow. It opens with the piano waltz of “Nothing Is Wasted”. “My eyes are wide open — I can’t see a thing,” she sings. “The hand keeps on pouring the wine down the sink”. Then a fairground Wurlitzer trills like a carillon and the music lurches sideways. “Nothing is ever the way that they paint it in fairy tales.” Flute and violin squirl away like the Beatles’ Mr Kite. The same uneasy bucolic spirit runs through “Troublemakers”: the “precious memories stay the same”, but the lyrics, set to jangling guitars, tell of a claustrophobic world of curtain-twitching neighbours. “Troublemakers come from out of town”, runs the chorus. “Hold on to Your Love”, another achingly melodic piano ballad, plays similar games with nostalgia. (The album’s title references a district in her native Derbyshire.) There is more than a hint of Sandy Denny — whose songs Blackwall has performed memorably — in the sweeping vocal lines of “Keep Warm”. Sadness runs throughout the album: on “Ivy Ladder” she laments that “these always were my favourite jeans, they just don’t fit no more”; “All Seems Better” is a plea for daybreak set to eerie electric violin. But there is also the sunburned vernal joy and wordless vocalisation of “Waiting For Tomorrow”, and the outsider balladry of “John’s Gone”, its rumbling keyboard ostinato framing an anti-hero with a “Ford Fiesta, venetian blinds and decking”, is akin to Genesis’s “Harold The Barrel”. There is not a single weak song here, and Marco Rea’s production frames them impeccably. he same uneasy bucolic spirit runs through “Troublemakers”: the “precious memories stay the same”, but the lyrics, set to jangling guitars, tell of a claustrophobic world of curtain-twitching neighbours. “Troublemakers come from out of town”, runs the chorus. “Hold on to Your Love”, another achingly melodic piano ballad, plays similar games with nostalgia. (The album’s title references a district in her native Derbyshire.) There is more than a hint of Sandy Denny — whose songs Blackwall has performed memorably — in the sweeping vocal lines of “Keep Warm”. Sadness runs throughout the album: on “Ivy Ladder” she laments that “these always were my favourite jeans, they just don’t fit no more”; “All Seems Better” is a plea for daybreak set to eerie electric violin. But there is also the sunburned vernal joy and wordless vocalisation of “Waiting For Tomorrow”, and the outsider balladry of “John’s Gone”, its rumbling keyboard ostinato framing an anti-hero with a “Ford Fiesta, venetian blinds and decking”, is akin to Genesis’s “Harold The Barrel”. There is not a single weak song here, and Marco Rea’s production frames them impeccably. David Hongmann – FT 24/4/20 https://www.ft.com/content/344f3e84-82eb-11ea-b555-37a289098206 Artist Lavinia Blackwall (Trembling Bells) Genre Folk Label Stilton Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings 1.Nothing is Wasted 03:51 2.Troublemakers 03:45 3.Ivy Ladder 05:05 4.All Seems Better 05:16 5.Hold on To Your Love 03:31 6.Waiting For Tomorrow 05:11 7.Keep Warm 02:44 8.John's Gone 02:55 9.The Way That She Laughed 04:49 10.When Will All Come To Light (I) Muggington End (II) Arbor Low (III) 05:35 Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Folk View Product Quick View Aoife O'Donovan In The Magic Hour Folk | Yep Roc | 180g, 1LP Released 19th February 2016 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Aoife O'Donovan In The Magic Hour £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Yep Roc SKU: LPYEP2428 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 19th February 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Karen Black Dreaming of You (1971-76) Folk | Anthology Recordings | 1LP, Includes 7" Released 16th July 2021 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Karen Black Dreaming of You (1971-76) £21.00 Genre: Folk Label: Anthology Recordings SKU: ARC0758 Formats: 1LP, Includes 7" Released Date: 16th July 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Mike Cooper Trout Steel Folk | Paradise Of Bachelors | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 16th June 2014 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Mike Cooper Trout Steel £22.00 Genre: Folk Label: Paradise Of Bachelors SKU: POB013LP Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 16th June 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Lucy Rose Something’s Changing Folk | Communion | 1LP Released 7th July 2017 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Lucy Rose Something’s Changing £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Communion SKU: COMM187 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 7th July 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bert Jansch Rosemary Lane Folk | Sanctuary | 1LP Released 13th April 2016 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bert Jansch Rosemary Lane £18.00 Genre: Folk Label: Sanctuary SKU: 5414939921629 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 13th April 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Christopher Paul Stelling Itinerant Arias Folk | Epitaph | 1LP Released 5th May 2017 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Christopher Paul Stelling Itinerant Arias £18.00 Genre: Folk Label: Epitaph SKU: 0045778750016 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 5th May 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jon Boden Afterglow Folk | Hudson Records | 1LP Released 4th October 2017 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jon Boden Afterglow £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Hudson Records SKU: HUD004LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 4th October 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Fred Neil Fred Neil Folk | Sundazed | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 29th November 2019 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Fred Neil Fred Neil £26.00 Genre: Folk Label: Sundazed SKU: LPSUND5520 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 29th November 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Karen Dalton 1966 Folk | Delmore Recordings | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 11th December 2020 £32.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Karen Dalton 1966 £32.00 Genre: Folk Label: Delmore Recordings SKU: DE23C Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 11th December 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Nicki Bluhm Avondale Drive Folk | Compass | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 3rd June 2022 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nicki Bluhm Avondale Drive £22.00 Genre: Folk Label: Compass SKU: COM47871 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 3rd June 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Folk Start again
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