专辑简介

We at Owd Scrat are very proud to present our first full length LP, which is also the first by musician/artist/writer Paul Rooney under his own (full) name. In beautiful frosted transparent vinyl and CD digipack. An album of revenant songs, in which various dead people return from beyond the grave to visit their lover, play poker or haunt a toilet seat. The record features many collaborators including actor Gregory Cox, mesmerizing ethereal harmonisers Lutine, and has a cover image by artist Leo Fitzmaurice.

Following on (though ten years later) from his acclaimed 2007 single Lucy Over Lancashire – a dub folklore epic narrated by a Satanic Lancastrian sprite – this long awaited album delves even further into the demonically possessed everyday. The narrative song lyrics range from unjustly wronged music hall ghosts (Sunday Best, Father’s Grave), or lost souls stranded on tour buses (Lost High Street), or stuck inside trumpets (Spit Valve), to a child’s voice from a film soundtrack come to restless, spectral life (Black Ear). The album’s stories recall darkly comic absurdist writers like Barthelme, Beckett or O’Brien (Flann), married to a kind of post-punk pop-dub synth-folk. The result is gloriously unique. How about Ivor Cutler collaborating with Xiu Xiu on the soundtrack to a low budget folk-horror about stoats? Robert Ashley creating a music hall song-cycle about breath condensation with This Heat? As these comparisons reveal, this album is both hard to describe and absolutely distinct, and thank the undead for that.