View basket “Double Take” 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 Terry Reid The Other Side Of The River Folk | Future Days Recordings / Light In The Attic | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 27th May 2016 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Terry Reid The Other Side Of The River £28.00 Genre: Folk Label: Future Days Recordings / Light In The Attic SKU: FDR629LP Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 27th May 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Five Hand Reel A Bunch of Fives Folk | Topic Records | 1LP Released 31st May 2013 £10.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Five Hand Reel A Bunch of Fives £10.00 Genre: Folk Label: Topic Records SKU: NN57526 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 31st May 2013 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Joni Mitchell Early Joni – 1963 Folk | Rhino | 180g, 1LP Released 30th October 2020 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Joni Mitchell Early Joni – 1963 £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Rhino SKU: 0603497846665 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 30th October 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 View Product Quick View Bert Jansch Live At The 12 Bar Folk | Earth Records | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 17th May 2016 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bert Jansch Live At The 12 Bar £16.00 Genre: Folk Label: Earth Records SKU: EARTHLP004 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 17th May 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Joan Baez Recently Folk | Analogue Productions | SACD Released 10th February 2017 £30.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Joan Baez Recently £30.00 Genre: Folk Label: Analogue Productions SKU: CAPF112SA Formats: SACD Released Date: 10th February 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Keywest Ordinary Superhero Folk | Marshall Records | 1LP Released 27th September 2019 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Keywest Ordinary Superhero £17.00 Genre: Folk Label: Marshall Records SKU: 0190296899836 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 27th September 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jenny Sturgeon The Living Mountain Folk | Hudson Records | 1LP Released 16th October 2020 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jenny Sturgeon The Living Mountain £16.00 Genre: Folk Label: Hudson Records SKU: HUD021LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 16th October 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jim Croce I Got A Name – 50th Anniversary Bone White vinyl Folk | BMG | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 18th August 2023 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jim Croce I Got A Name – 50th Anniversary Bone White vinyl £25.00 Genre: Folk Label: BMG SKU: 4050538904550 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 18th August 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Adam Torres Pearls To Swine Folk | Fat Possum | 1LP Released 9th September 2016 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Adam Torres Pearls To Swine £17.00 Genre: Folk Label: Fat Possum SKU: FP15671 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 9th September 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Folk Start again
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