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While retaining the post-punk and 90s alt-rock inspired elements that peppered their debut, the music is more expressive, heavier and more experimental, and the lyrics more nuanced, the sense of despair leavened by sharp wordplay and humour. The unsettling undercurrent of melancholy and hopelessness that pervades the record has its roots in the last three years, spent eking out an existence on the poverty line in Cameron's Britain, leaving them with a succession of minimum-wage jobs and unemployment benefits interviews. As guitarist Dan Moss relates, the album is about \"being in London and feeling hopeless and a bit lost. Not having any money, relationships falling apart, things just not connecting or going anywhere and getting absolutely wasted all the time.\" Named after the undertaker in Dylan Thomas's 'Under Milk Wood,' the band's 2012 self-titled inaugural album saw critical acclaim from the likes of Q, Uncut and Artrocker, as well as radio play on BBC Radio 1, BBC 6Music and XFM. After a change in line-up following the release of their debut, the band regrouped around the core of brothers Dan and Olly Moss and singer Katherine Whitaker for the recording of 'Expect Delays.' Drummer James Burkitt was recruited from Leeds' band The ABC Club to complete a taut new four-piece.LP - 180 Gram With Art Print and Download.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fortuna Pop","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50493165666635,"sku":"385210","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50493167796555,"sku":"385211","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/8851348f-0b6a-44a7-8d4d-2c7c23a2f388_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727695934"},{"product_id":"vanilla","title":"Vanilla","description":"\u003cp\u003eLondon 5 piece Evans the Death return with 'Vanilla', their most ambitious and experimental album to date, eschewing the more traditional pop structures and hooks of their first two albums, 2012's self titled debut and 2015's 'Expect Delays'. While 'Expect Delays' was a step towards something more interesting, more collaborative, experimental and abrasive - a bleak, introspective kind of album that still retained a pop sensibility - 'Vanilla' sees the band veer in an ever more adventurous direction: more aggressive, extroverted and raw. The new album was recorded at Lightship95 in London with producer Rory Attwell. Highly variegated in style and mood, brimming with extreme contrasts, from noisy to funky to melodic, energetic to dejected, full of chaos and restlessness, the album was the result of a carefully planned recording strategy. With no specific musical reference point, the songs on 'Vanilla' veer wildly in style, lending a real energy and vitality to the flow of the album. There's the psychedelic snarl of 'Haunted Wheelchair' built around dissonant, ominous, jazz-like chords, which build a sense of dread and paranoia but also a strange excitement. There's also the no-wave party vibe of 'Suitcase Jimmy', a semi-improvised portrait of a fictional down-at-heel actor built around a Wilko Johnson-ish guitar part. 'Hey! Buddy' is an \"unintentionally mean-spirited\" askew pop tune from the point of view of a cloying and over-zealous fan of the band. While the wartime dancehall of 'Cable St. Blues' is an odd duet between two parts of the psyche, representing \"an argument you have with yourself, about depression and extreme self-criticism and self-doubt, struggling to function\", and named after the site of the 1936 riots where the band wrote the album. Newest member Daniel Raphael's present to the band, 'Hot Sauce' is led by a groovy, capacious bassline, while Olly's 'Armchair Theatre', the quietest, prettiest song on the record, starts out like a soft rock classic and turns in to a gorgeously mournful song.LP - 180 Gram Vinyl with Download.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fortuna Pop","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50494106665291,"sku":"402083","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50494107615563,"sku":"402082","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/c6283098-32fe-47e5-b28a-556c729374d0_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727703432"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/evans-the-death.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}