Name: Twelve
Brand: The Singing Loins

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DAMGOOD619LP

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Black

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Limited edition

Release date

2024-09-06

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5020422061910

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Black LP

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The Singing Loins

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Folk

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Damaged Goods

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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 new album is called Twelve. Could you settle an office debate - is it your 12th album or have you called it that because it has twelve songs on it? (We thought Here On Earth was your 12th but not according to Discogs. Also, our ability to count accurately has diminished over the years!) A bit of both. Course, there's the 12 songs, but then, depending on how you count, it's also our 12th album (from 91-98, there's the 1st 4 LPs that Damaged Goods collected together on The Complete & Utter – that’s a comp though, so we can’t count that eh – then there’s At The Bridge with Billy, so that’s 5.....we can skip Alive In Dunkerque as well cos it’s a live album....then there was 2004-13 where we made four more with you, then in 2019 we got back together and made 13 Moon Songs From Merry Hell, released on the Vacilando 68 label...so that’s 10...and then we did another record with Billy, The Fighting Temeraire... so yeah, that makes this one number 12). 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. It's been 33 years since the debut Loins' LP - How does it feel to be the elder statemen of Kent's alt-folk scene?Ha ha, are we? We don't know any other folk bands, alt or not, so it doesn't feel as though we’re qualified to be the statesmen of anything! Elder, certainly, but statesmen? Nope. The Singing Loins wouldn't have existed of course if it wasn't for Chris Broderick. Chris sadly passed in 2022. What would he have thought about the fact you're carrying on with the band and recording new music? Yeah... he'd be happy. In the week before he passed away, he asked Arf & me over, basically to say goodbye and tie up any loose ends. And he told Arf that we should carry the Loins on. So yeah, I think he’d be pleased and proud that we’re keeping the songs, and his words, alive.

Twelve

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Discover Twelve by The Singing Loins on Damaged Goods. A new album featuring 12 songs, including reimagined classics. Vinyl records available.