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PRODUCT DETAILS
FORMAT: New CD • UPC: 5056032388031
GENRE: Folk • RECORD LABEL: From Here Records
RELEASE DATE: 11/10/24

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Stick in the Wheel - Thousand Pokes (CD)

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Stick in the Wheel - Thousand Pokes (CD)

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SITW's fourth studio album is a satirical celebration of mistakes. A joyous lambasting of everyone and everything that's wrong in the world, against the real-time backdrop of global uncertainty, corruption and political unrest. A London Charivari. Rough Music. A gleeful old-fashioned cancelling. A Chaunter's delight. 14th Century recording demons collecting mistakes in a sack. Women mugging rich merchants. Nettles being pissed on. Shit food at Lent. A terrible plan. An undoing. The aftermath of a car crash. Catching people doing something they shouldn't. Nursery rhymes reimagined as death threats. Behind the sarcastic acerbic delivery, Nicola Kearey and Ian Carter convey thoughtful, essential interpretations encouraging us all to check ourselves, through the multi-layered music of cities through time. This is about as far away from pastoral folk music as you can get. In their typical wry city-weary style, a beady eye is cast over those committing wrongs in plain sight, with Kearey narrating a series of tales of people fucking up, or being fucked up, with some brief respite in Lavender - one of London's oldest street melodies - the album being named after the 14th Century story of Tittivilus, the recording demon, who collects scribes' mistakes (pokes) and the idle chatter of the "liars with their hairy tongues" congregation. Despite this seriousness, the album's working-class dry gallows humour carries a stoic "if you don't laugh you'll cry" feeling amongst the corruption, scandals and barefaced lies we all observe on a daily basis, with a warning that "only you can fix your deficits" and "it's your words and deeds that matter... and let me tell you, they speak volumes". The core of the record imagines a sound of traditional London music, where the musical continuum is unbroken by the population decimated by the world wars, or by gentrification and social cleansing that has forced communities apart, and yet absorbs all the influences of all the communities that call London their home. Carter and Kearey attempted sessions at The George Tavern, Whitechapel, and in Spitalfields, at Denis Severs' House, and a restored weaver's townhouse, carrying the aesthetic of the record in their heads as they moved from location to location, before settling into an old factory building and their own workshop. The resulting sparse and economical sound is harsher, more present, more essentially them. It is a mighty haranguing that demands your attention.

Tracklist:

  1. Crystal Tears
  2. Back of the Hatch
  3. A Thousand Pokes
  4. Burnt Walk
  5. Lavender
  6. The Cramp
  7. Cracks
  8. Can't Stop
  9. What Can the Matter Be
  10. Watercress-O
  11. Brisk Lad
  12. Hush
  13. Steals the Thief

UPC: 5056032388031
Label: From Here Records
Release Date: 11.10.24
Format: CD

TRACK LIST

Tracklist:

  1. Crystal Tears
  2. Back of the Hatch
  3. A Thousand Pokes
  4. Burnt Walk
  5. Lavender
  6. The Cramp
  7. Cracks
  8. Can't Stop
  9. What Can the Matter Be
  10. Watercress-O
  11. Brisk Lad
  12. Hush
  13. Steals the Thief

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