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Limited Purple Vinyl Edition.
Back cover with small tear from opening side.

Only opened to verify colour.

Record is close to NM.

Critically-acclaimed, criminally-overachieving Glasgow-based singer and guitarist Alasdair Roberts is known as a superlative original songwriter as well as an interpreter of traditional songs from Scotland and beyond. For the past twenty years, his recordings have alternated between these two complimentary poles, with "pop" records such as The Amber Gatherers and A Wonder Working Stone nestling in his expansive back catalogue alongside "folk" albums such as No Earthly Man and What News (with Amble Skuse and David McGuinness). Additionally, all of these records possess a further dimension, derived from their collation of songs together into one album-length statement. This is part of Alasdair"s great achievement in his career - for him, this thing of music and song hasn"t come the eons it"s travelled to simply entertain.These impulses fully present and well honed, Alasdair returns to his roots with Grief in the Kitchen and Mirth in the Hall, his fifth full-length collection of traditional song. Recorded live in the studio, it is an entirely solo collection of twelve traditional ballads and songs sparsely arranged for acoustic guitar, piano and voice. The majority of the songs originate in Alasdair"s homeland of Scotland, with a couple from Ireland and one from Prince Edward Island on Canada"s eastern seaboard too.The record takes its title from a line in the final verse of one of its songs, "The Baron o" Brackley" - a ballad of feuding clans and matrimonial betrayal from the north-east of Scotland. Grief in the Kitchen and Mirth in the Hall: it"s a title which goes some way towards encapsulating many of the record"s themes. Collectively the songs treat of various conflicts and tensions - those of gender; of class, status and position; and of geography and tribal belonging - and the roles and responsibilities expected at the various intersections of these constructs. That we should never forget!As with many of Alasdair"s recordings, Grief in the Kitchen and Mirth in the Hall contains ballads aplenty...

Red Vinyl Edition.
Still shrink wrapped but opened.
Cover with a beginning seam split at the upper edge.
Record is close to VG+.

Limited to 2800 copies.
Outer PVC sleeve with seam split.

Sealed copy.
Box as new with slightly dented corners.
Shrink is opened in the back but records are UNPLAYED.

Gold and clear vinyl look unplayed, but they are warped, still enjoyable though. Original inner sleeve with seam splits. With inserts. Box closer to NM.

Yellow Sun vinyl. Vinyl closer to NM. Cover with light ring wear on the back.

Returning for the third time to the studio of Speedy Wunderground’s Dan Carey, Hebden Bridge’s The Lounge Society are back; this time, with the mindset of crafting a debut album conceived out of desire, raised by collaborative muscle-memory, and kept beating, by the sacred-heart of emotional-spirit.

Recorded over two weeks in November 2021, Tired of Liberty is a stunningly ubiquitous snapshot of instrumental meltdown, and timeless adolescence. Keen to uphold the manipulated elasticity of a recorded event, the majority of the eleven tracks that make up the record (with the exception of ‘Generation Game’, which saw its beginnings as part of the Speedy Wunderground 7” series, and was subsequently re-recorded), were written either just before, or throughout the duration of those fortnight sessions.

Still sealed with hype sticker.

Clear vinyl. Still sealed with hype sticker.

Original inner sleeve.

Cover close to NM

Still sealed. Tear in cardboard covers back spine. Limited edition.

Record Store Day 2022 Drop 1 Release.
Limited Edition.
Turquoise Vinyl.
Record is close to NM.
Small sticker on back cover.

Evergreen / Brown / Yellow Tri-Color Merge w/ Mustard Splatter vinyl.