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01. Nightingales - Sunlight Uplands (Turn That Frown Upside Down)
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02. Nightingales - I <3 CCTV
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03. Nightingales - Frances Sokolov
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04. Nightingales - Spread Yourself Out
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05. Nightingales - Bloody Breath
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06. Nightingales - Mind Of Stone
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07. Nightingales - I Needed The Money At The Time
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08. Nightingales - The Very Nature
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09. Nightingales - Magical Left Foot
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10. Nightingales - Mark Meets No Mark
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ARTIST
NIGHTINGALES
TITLE
The Last Laugh
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
TINY GLOBAL PRODUCTIONS
CATALOG #
PICI 045CD
PICI 045CD
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
11/4/2022
Revisiting a press release for the
Nightingales
' last album,
Four Against Fate
, Tiny Global Productions recalled hesitant anticipation for the forthcoming
King Rocker
, a film documentary of
Robert Lloyd
and Nightingales, made by
Michael Cumming
and
Stewart Lee
. After forty years of activity, Robert and the band had seen hyped recordings go lost, scant commercial success. Royalties? Ha. Yet response to
King Rocker
was immediately positive. Fab reviews galore, a long process regaining master rights which led to a series of expanded reissues with Fire. A tour postponed three times finally took place, to fully-packed houses. It was a very good year. The band felt a degree of anxiety prior to the sessions, which took place at
Valencia
's Elefante Studios. With bassist
Andi Schmid
isolated during Covid, the band had yet begun working out individual rough sketches, typically battered into songs over a period of months. They went into a new studio blind, with a new producer,
Jorge Bernabe
, without rehearsals . . . and produced a top-to-bottom masterpiece. Thirty seconds in, "Sunlit Uplands", is already a classic showcasing
Fliss Kitson
's increased songwriting power and the core dichotomy of the group's best songs: perverse as fuck, catchy as fuck. "I <3 CCTV" is highlighted by a fab
Jim Smith
astral-garage guitar riff . . . and that's a one-two punch few albums ever equal, let alone carry over to the affectionate "Frances Sokolov", Robert's ode to mentor
Vi Subversa
, the playground riff that underlines "Spread Yourself Out" and then "Bloody Breath", the best encapsulation of all the band's genius in developing a kind of "pop" that no other combo has ever cracked. Other highlights include the lopsided mysterious beauty of "Magical Left Foot", the courtly raver of "I Need The Money At The Time" with a wonderful motorik groove driven by bassist
Andi Schmid
, and the album closer, "My Sweet Friend", a rockabilly lullaby which sounds like a magical outtake from Robert's one and only solo album It's a corker, it's a marvel, it's the best Nightingales record to date. Try and deny it.
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