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Review: 'LANTERNS ON THE LAKE'
'Gracious Tide, Take Me Home'   

-  Label: 'Bella Union'
-  Genre: 'Indie' -  Release Date: '2nd July 2021'

Our Rating:
This is a “deluxe” 10th Anniversary vinyl reissue of the Newcastle band’s debut album.

The core of the group remains Hazel Wilde (vocals, guitar), Paul Gregory (guitars, backing vocals, electronics) and Ol Ketteringham (drums, piano) and this record also features Adam Sykes (vocals, guitar), Brendan Sykes (bass) and Sarah Kemp (violin) who departed prior to the second album.

The home-produced tracks have now been remastered at Abbey Road studios and are released on double vinyl in a gatefold sleeve with gold foil print.

Aside from the cleaned up sound and smarter cover,five previously unreleased tracks recorded during the original sessions have been added to entice those who may already bought the album when it was first released. The sixteen tracks make for a total playing time of 67 minutes.

The songs have an ethereal and languorous tone that effectively blends low-key post-rock with ambient rhythms. There are plenty of moments of quiet dreamy restraint which occasionally build into a soft focus crescendos. At no point do things get loud so a mood of calm detachment prevails.

Hazel Wilde says: “A lot of lyrics were inspired by my moving back to the coast (North Shields), where I grew up, after I’d been living near the city centre.”

Ships In The Rain was inspired by a local fisherman who went missing at sea while two quite different versions of Not Going Back To The Harbour (one intimate, one expansive) suggest not all elements of the past bear revisiting.

In contrast, the soothing I Love You, Sleepyheadand the nostalgia of The Places We Call Home are built around more comforting images.

Overall, the unhurried , slow-building textures have a grace and beauty that are not designed to make an immediate or striking impact. The quality is more akin to that of gentle waves lapping on the seashore than of stormy oceans raging.

Lanterns On The Lake’s website
  author: Martin Raybould

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LANTERNS ON THE LAKE - Gracious Tide, Take Me Home