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 Nearly New View Product Quick View Jim Eldon I Wish There Was No Prisons Folk | Stick | 1LP Released 13th June 2014 £5.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Jim Eldon I Wish There Was No Prisons £5.00 Genre: Folk Label: Stick SKU: NN70087 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 13th June 2014 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Samantha Fish Wild Heart Blues | Ruf Records | 1LP Released 4th December 2015 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Samantha Fish Wild Heart £25.00 Genre: Blues Label: Ruf Records SKU: RUF2019 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 4th December 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View John Fahey Proofs and Refutations Folk | Drag City | 1LP Released 8th September 2023 £20.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations John Fahey Proofs and Refutations £20.00 Genre: Folk Label: Drag City SKU: DC759 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 8th September 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Bruce Cockburn O Sun O Moon Folk | True North Records | 180g, 2LP Released 9th June 2023 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bruce Cockburn O Sun O Moon £25.00 Genre: Folk Label: True North Records SKU: TND811V Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 9th June 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Yo-Yo Ma and Silk Road Ensemble Sing Me Home Folk | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 21st April 2023 £36.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Yo-Yo Ma and Silk Road Ensemble Sing Me Home £36.00 Genre: Folk Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVCL025 Formats: 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 21st April 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Sandy Denny Sandy Folk | Proper / Island | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 23rd September 2022 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sandy Denny Sandy £23.00 Genre: Folk Label: Proper / Island SKU: UMCLP007 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 23rd September 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Sons Of Noel And Adrian Knots Folk | One Inch Badge | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 20th September 2012 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sons Of Noel And Adrian Knots £16.00 Genre: Folk Label: One Inch Badge SKU: OIB026 Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 20th September 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Richard Thompson Guitar, Vocal) A Collection Of Unreleased and Rare Material 1967-1976 Folk | Island | 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 25th March 2022 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Richard Thompson Guitar, Vocal) A Collection Of Unreleased and Rare Material 1967-1976 £26.00 Genre: Folk Label: Island SKU: 3576259 Formats: 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 25th March 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Josephine Foster No More Lamps In The Morning Folk | Fire Records | 1LP Released 5th February 2016 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Josephine Foster No More Lamps In The Morning £16.00 Genre: Folk Label: Fire Records SKU: FAME002LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 5th February 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bonny Light Horseman Rolling Golden Holy Folk | 37d03d | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 7th October 2022 £19.00 - £20.00 Select options Bonny Light Horseman Rolling Golden Holy £19.00 - £20.00 Genre: Folk Label: 37d03d Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 7th October 2022 Read More Select options See more in Folk Start again
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