LYR – The Ultraviolet Age (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

LYR – The Ultraviolet Age (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 43:25 minutes | 513 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Art Pop, Spoken Word
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © EMI North – Clue Records

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 In The Crash Team, LYR’s second album is The Ultraviolet Age. This is a more accessible album, 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 observations on the times we live in.

The album’s centre piece, 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.”

Tracklist:
01. LYR – Paradise Lost (03:51)
02. LYR – The Song Thrush and the Mountain Ash (04:45)
03. LYR – Living Legend (03:40)
04. LYR – Seasons Out of Phase (04:37)
05. LYR – The Bitter End (04:57)
06. LYR – Presidentially Yours (05:19)
07. LYR – Fishing Flies (03:20)
08. LYR – Heart for Sale (04:13)
09. LYR – Hockney Red (03:06)
10. LYR – To the Fashion Industry in Crisis (05:31)

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