LYR – The Ultraviolet Age (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 43:25 minutes | 513 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Art Pop, Spoken Word
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © EMI North – Clue Records
LYR thrive on the unexpected. As a genre-splicing supergroup of sorts, comprised of author and current British Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, musician Richard Walters and multi-instrumentalist Patrick Pearson, the band is a nexus of diverse creative disciplines, and one of the most thrilling musical prospects around. Following their acclaimed debut, 2020’s Call In The Crash Team, LYR’s second album is The Ultraviolet Age. This is a more accessible album, pitched somewhere between the enigmatic brood of late period Talk Talk, the lo-fi expanse of Low and their British sprechgesang contemporaries including Dry Cleaning, Yard Act and Black Country, New Road.
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LYR – Call in the Crash Team (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 39:42 minutes | 473 MB | Genre: Alternative
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mercury KX
Newly appointed by The Queen as the UK’s 21st poet laureate; Simon Armitage fronts a brand-new band, with respected musicians/producers; Patrick James Pearson and Richard Walters. Spoken word / poetry led but with beautiful and unique soundscapes from the electronic / post-rock / modern-classical / ambient worlds. An album that gives poetic voice to acts of resistance and surrender. The juxtaposition of beauty and destruction.
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