Country: UK
Sub Genre: Art Rock, Prog Folk, Chamber
Label: Believers Roast
Release date: June 16, 2014
Tracklist:
01. A Winning Decree (5:54)
02. Buy One Now (2:41)
03. Hunt The Button (5:42)
04. Fluent English (3:37)
05. No Glory No Gain (1:16)
06. Hollywood Says So (4:27)
07. TKS2 (4:37)
08. The Defenders In The Mill (2:29)
09. Unmatchable Bride (4:39)
10. The Women From The Ministry (9:29)
Line-up:
Richard Larcombe
James Larcombe (North Sea Radio Orchestra, William D. Drake)
Description/Reviews:
...the brotherly duo of Richard and James Larcombe produce a magical brand of guitar and piano-based (and also drum-less) music that skips nimbly between dissected pastoral psych/prog and deconstructed music hall burlesque.Read the full review by Joe Banks at thequietus.com
The sometimes eccentric arrangements and non-aversion to packing as many notes as possible into every bar firmly place Stars In Battledress in the same lineage as Peter Hammill, Cardiacs and Field Music, artists intent on waking their audience up from the somnambulant potential of conventional songwriting. And along with their minimal baroque style, their nicely evocative, sometimes opaque, lyrics hint at childhood games, thwarted lives and dark deeds in the corridors of power, all delivered in the well-enunciated and decidedly un-rock voice of the ex-choir boy.
Which makes sense, because the Larcombe brothers' music is also intensely English in an almost ecclesiastical, high church way, its very essence infused with the musty air of a thousand village halls, provincial libraries and decaying baronial mansions. While the likes of British Sea Power, Public Service Broadcasting and the Ghost Box label refer back with varying degrees of nostalgia to a classical vision of Albion, Stars In Battledress often seem to still be inhabiting that past, concocting cheering entertainments for a nation enduring wartime
Media/Samples
A Winning Decree
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