The Proclaimers

The Proclaimers – Angry Cyclist (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:34 minutes | 812 MB | Genre: Folk Rock, Classic Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cooking Vinyl

New album from the Scottish folk/rock duo composed of the identical twin brothers Charlie and Craig Reid. This is Craig and Charlie’s 11th studio album recorded again at the legendary Rockfield Studios in Wales featuring 13 new Reid/Reid songs produced by Dave Eringa (Manic Street Preachers, Roger Daltrey). Angry Cyclist finds The Proclaimers at the peak of their songwriting prowess. Instantly catchy hooks and melodies, gorgeous close harmonies, moving, as well as clever and subtle, biting lyrics, great arrangements and fantastic production (produced by Dave Eringa), all on a perfectly sequenced album.

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The Proclaimers – Dentures Out (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 33:39 minutes | 424 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cooking Vinyl Limited

Billed as “a record of the times”, the follow-up to Craig and Charlie Reid’s acclaimed 2018 ‘Angry Cyclist’ LP is produced by Dave Eringa and was recorded at Rockfield Studios in Wales in spring 2022.

According to a press release, it’s The Proclaimers’ “most political album” since their breakthrough second album ‘Sunshine On Leith’, tackling topics such as the weaponising of nostalgia for electoral capital, press barons, the bubble of modern life, and more.

Due out September 16 via Cooking Vinyl, the album sees Manic Street Preachers frontman James Dean Bradfield lend his guitar talents to a couple of songs, playing on the title track and the “James Bond theme that never was”, ‘Things As They Are’.

News of the album comes alongside the release of a rocking sing-a-long, ‘The World That Was’, which examines the frustration of those who felt like nostalgia was pressed into service during the pandemic with allusions to wartime warmth.

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