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Blood

the REAL TUESDAY WELD

Blood

ANTIQUE BEAT
  • very limited (300 copies only) red & splatter lp

    Released: 21st May 2021

    £19.99
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After two decades on the fringe, cult London troubadours The Real Tuesday Weld are calling time with a series of swan song releases.

The first: “BLOOD" gathers their collaborators for a farewell set of 'ten songs for noir films'. Haunted waltzes, piano interludes and cinematic electronica provide the backdrop for an ensemble of barflies, torch singers and femme fatales to perform songs that channel influences including Serge Gainsbourg, Tom Waits, Julie London, Barry Adamson and Polly Harvey. Film references are to the fore, recalling the band's soundtracks for blockbuster game LA Noire and soundtrack to surrealist classic Dreams That Money Can Buy - along with perennial inspirations Angel Heart, Twin Peaks and Down by Law. Written over recent years between various film scores and collaborations, the songs beguile with stories of romantic revenge, heartbreak, anima dreams and urban psychodramas - with a nod (via a deranged cover version of Poker Face) to the band’s circus swing past.