The plaintive country twang brings to mind Richard Hawley at his most confessional and Duffy has a hard-earned track record in documenting the human condition. The final lines, “Can’t promise you a rainbow, all I can say is this: we can leave tomorrow, for your vermillion cliffs,” drip with warmth and experience. ‘Your Vermillion Cliffs’ is a truly gorgeous acoustic meditation on ageing and living a good life. Your correspondent’s copy had a couple of light clicks here and there but was, otherwise, a total pleasure.įrom the moment the needle drops on the latest album from The Lilac Time, ‘Dance Till All The Stars Come Down’, it’s obvious that Stephen Duffy’s beloved band are in superb form. The vinyl cut by Jason Mitchell at Loud continues where those remarkable reissues left off, delivering a truly 3D array of music. The disarmingly eerie, though easier to follow, “doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo” refrain which opens the album sets the scene for the beautiful ‘Prayer At The Gate’ and a spacious soundstage that deploys all manner of textures from trombone to variophon, steel string guitar to ‘sonic disturbance’ – the last being credited to co-producer Flood. A glossary is provided on the insert for the lyrics that incorporate archaic words, as was the case in her published work.
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