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01. THE DECLINING WINTER - This Sadness Lacks
02. THE DECLINING WINTER - Home for Lost Souls
03. THE DECLINING WINTER - Golden Terrace
04. THE DECLINING WINTER - It Is Intensely Sad
05. THE DECLINING WINTER - The Sweet Sound of North
06. THE DECLINING WINTER - When Things Mattered
07. THE DECLINING WINTER - Fog Forming
08. THE DECLINING WINTER - Hurled to the Curb
09. THE DECLINING WINTER - Around the Winding Roads and Hills
10. THE DECLINING WINTER - The Wild Girl Laughed
11. THE DECLINING WINTER - Summer Circuit
12. THE DECLINING WINTER - A Field Defunct
13. THE DECLINING WINTER - The Right True End
14. THE DECLINING WINTER - The Full Blown West
ARTIST
TITLE
Home for Lost Souls
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
HAM 010LP HAM 010LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
8/14/2015

The Declining Winter is the brainchild of Hood co-founder Richard Adams. Home for Lost Souls is his fourth full-length album following Goodbye Minnesota (2008), Haunt the Upper Hallways (2009), and Lost Songs (2013). Pulled from a hostel that Syd Barrett was alleged to have stayed at in the early '70s, the album's title points to the subject matter that concerns Adams in his songwriting. From the cost to one's sanity at just making it through another wearisome 9-5, to the ominous beauty of the North Pennines landscape, and love in a time of austerity. But far from being austere, the 14 songs presented here are generous, warm, deceptively simple, multilayered compositions. From the upbeat openers "This Sadness Lacks" and "Home for Lost Souls" to whimsical instrumentals "Golden Terrace" or "When Things Mattered," all the way through to the outrageously catchy "Hurled to the Curb" or the melancholy introspection of "The Wild Girl Laughed" and the quietly epic "The Right True End." As you might expect from Adams, he wears his heart and his influences on his sleeve. At times it feels like listening to a glorious cross between Disco Inferno and Talk Talk, Robert Wyatt and even Felt, with occasional smatterings of Radiohead as well as a brief hint of PiL on the rustic "The Summer Circuit" and "A Field Defunct."