A new album by Medway's premier alt-folk outfit The Singing Loins!

A new album by Medway's premier alt-folk outfit The Singing Loins! Yes indeed. We caught up with Rob Shepherd to find out more about their brilliant new LP Twelve...

The album has features newly recorded versions of several Loins classics. Was it a difficult decision deciding which back catalogue songs to record?

No, pretty easy - it's basically the 12 songs we enjoy playing the most with the current lineup. Saying that, it's been a bit of a meandering road getting to this point. Since Brod passed away, Arf & me have done few nights of Loins songs - and it's felt good - celebrating the songs we all wrote together - so that started the selection process. Oli, Arf's lad, joined us on percussion and then Rich, who Billy had introduced to us, joined on violin - then Chris came along to play the drums, so Oli switched to guitar - and through all that we were refining the set of songs, and we got a point where we felt that, yeah, we've sort of worked out how to do this (you know, respecting and celebrating our past, without coming on like a tribute band to ourselves), so it made sense to make the album - just to reflect where we'd arrived at....so we went into Jim's Ranscombe Studios and bashed them all out live in a couple of hours....no overdubs, no fussing over mistakes....just sing and play the songs as if it was a gig.

Track Listing

• Hauling in the Slack
• The Topless Twins of Allhallows-on-Sea
• House in the Woods
• Big Wheel
• The Ghost of Old Rose
• Ain't the World a Lovely Place
• God Bless the Whores of Rochester
• That's How Murders Happen
• I Don't Like the Man
• Nail it Back Together
• Where's My Machine Gun?
• Ange of the Medway

Additional Details

Label: Damaged Goods Records

Genre: Folk

Run Time: 40:00 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 09/06/24

UPC: 5020422061910