One of two song lyrics commissioned by Huddersfield Choral Society in response to Covid-19, inspired by members of the Choir and set to music by composers Cheryl Frances-Hoad (We’ll Sing ) and Daniel Kildane (The Song Thrush and the Mountain Ash)
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LYR thrive on the unexpected. As a genre-splicing supergroup of sorts, comprised of author and current British Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, musician Richard Walters and multi-instrumentalist Patrick Pearson, the band is a nexus of diverse creative disciplines, and one of the most thrilling musical prospects around.
Following their acclaimed debut, 2020's Call InThe Crash Team, LYR's second album is The Ultraviolet Age.
More accessible, more poignant, more widescreen that its predecessor, the album is pitched somewhere between the enigmatic brood of late period Talk Talk, the lo-fi expanse of Low and their British sprechgesang contemporaries including Dry Cleaning, Yard Act and Black Country, New Road.
It is an album of deft character sketches, dictatorships, the climate crisis and gorgeous and moving reflections on the times we live in.
The album’s centrepiece,The Song Thrush And The Mountain Ash is an overdue moment of sonic reflection on a collective trauma.
While elsewhere, there’s plenty of the storming northern noir that has become LYR’s signature – from the brooding Paradise Lost to clattering malevolence of Presidentially Yours, and Living Legend, a track Armitage describes as “a pen portrait of somebody who is obsessed with somebody from the rock’n’roll past to the point of infatuation or impersonation, maybe even reincarnation.”
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