View basket “I Wish There Was No Prisons” has been added to your basket. 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 Lindisfarne Access All Areas Folk | Demon | 1LP Released 12th February 2016 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Lindisfarne Access All Areas £17.00 Genre: Folk Label: Demon SKU: DEMREC78 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 12th February 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Shirley Collins An Introduction To Folk | Vinyl 180 | 1LP Released 20th October 2017 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Shirley Collins An Introduction To £16.00 Genre: Folk Label: Vinyl 180 SKU: VIN180LP126 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 20th October 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Sandy Denny I’ve Always Kept A Unicorn Folk | UMC | 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 5th December 2016 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sandy Denny I’ve Always Kept A Unicorn £24.00 Genre: Folk Label: UMC SKU: 5707976 Formats: 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 5th December 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Espers Espers Folk | Drag City | 1LP Released 13th March 2020 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Espers Espers £20.00 Genre: Folk Label: Drag City SKU: DC735 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 13th March 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Loudon Wainwright III More Love Songs Folk | Demon Records | 1LP Released 30th August 2019 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Loudon Wainwright III More Love Songs £25.00 Genre: Folk Label: Demon Records SKU: DEMREC471 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 30th August 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Rose Elinor Dougall A New Illusion – Indies Only Folk | Vermilion | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 5th April 2019 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Rose Elinor Dougall A New Illusion – Indies Only £20.00 Genre: Folk Label: Vermilion SKU: VERMLP8X Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 5th April 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Punch Brothers Hell on Church Street Folk | Nonesuch | 1LP Released 14th January 2022 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Punch Brothers Hell on Church Street £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Nonesuch SKU: 0075597912494 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 14th January 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Dave Swarbrick & Simon Nicol In The Club Folk | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 2LP Released 11th October 2010 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Dave Swarbrick & Simon Nicol In The Club £21.00 Genre: Folk Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP161 Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 11th October 2010 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Sharron Kraus Kin Folk | Cardinal Fuzz | 1LP Released 2nd June 2023 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sharron Kraus Kin £24.00 Genre: Folk Label: Cardinal Fuzz SKU: CF0272 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 2nd June 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Dyble Longdon Between A Breath And A Breath Folk | English Electric Recordings | 1LP Released 25th September 2020 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Dyble Longdon Between A Breath And A Breath £24.00 Genre: Folk Label: English Electric Recordings SKU: PLG084 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 25th September 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Folk Start again
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