{"title":"Lightning In A Twilight Hour","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"theres-more-to-life-than-crooks","title":"There's More to Life Than Crooks","description":"\u003cp\u003eElefant Records presents the first two tracks to be released from the sessions for the third Lightning In A Twilight Hour album. \"There's More to Life Than Crooks\" and \"Haar\" form a stand-alone 12\" single reflecting two contrasting approaches; a pop song and a dark tone poem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe A side combines ideas such as touching the grass in a world of noise and the Albert Camus inspired \"existence is an act of rebellion\". Written as an immediate reaction to world events, it explores the need to formulate some kind of response when presented with the very worst of times. Musically it takes its cues from Factory Records 12\" singles, and pioneering experimental English rock band, Disco Inferno. Using a sound pallete of drum machine, sequencer, abrasive electric rhythm guitar and an outstanding Michael Hiscock (The Gentle Spring, The Field Mice) bassline, the music unfolds patiently over six minutes. Anne Mari Davies (The Field Mice) provides additional vocals which lift the chorus to where it shimmers and sparkles, releasing the tension. \"Illuminate what's tender. Illuminate what's wise\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Haar\", on the B side, is another world altogether. An ominous landscape featuring feedback loops, shortwave radio and autumn waves recorded at dusk in Dungeness, Kent. Anne Mari Davies this time provides layered, wordless vocals as the track's intensity increases. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elefant","offers":[{"title":"12\" - Black","offer_id":52340558266699,"sku":"R1394-3181","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Xq4VriMc.jpg?v=1750430538"},{"product_id":"colours-yet-to-be-named-iw","title":"Colours Yet To Be Named","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eColours Yet To Be Named\u003c\/em\u003e marks the third album release by Lightning In A Twilight Hour, the latest project of Bobby Wratten (The Field Mice, Northern Picture Library, Trembling Blue Stars), one of the most brilliant and prolific songwriters in recent British pop history. This is the follow up to 2022's \u003cem\u003eOverwintering\u003c\/em\u003e, which was chosen by BBC 6Music's Mark Radcliffe, as his album of the year. A soundworld of alternate tunings, experimental guitar, clicks, crackles, strange atmospherics and mournful synths, \"Colours Yet To Be Named\" seeks to communicate feelings, long before any lyrical content hits home; knowing that the beating heart of a record is first and foremost the sound palette on display. The album undertakes a journey beginning with American poetry in England and ends with English poetry in Switzerland. Between these two points are visits to mid-sixties Paris and mid-eighties London. A trip to a Nico-inspired subterranean cocoon and a place of authoritarian atrocities and dehumanisation. The latter, drawing parallels between the past and present. In other songs, Brian Eno meets a simple Yoko Ono inspired lyric where the vocal line must continually adjust to the five circling chords underneath and a storm at sea encroaches on an initially tranquil song of friendship that becomes ever more uncertain and adrift.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten, recorded and mixed between autumn 2024 and spring 2025, the album features Anne Mari Davies taking lead vocals on four tracks and contributing an array of additional vocals ranging from spoken word to unison, to the highly processed and experimental. Beth Arzy sings lead and harmony on the closing song and contributes backing vocals to three others. Michael Hiscock is featured playing bass on seven tracks, and Ian Catt resumes his role as producer and engineer, continuing to push the envelope of what pop can be. Building on techniques developed in the making of \"Overwintering\", digital technology was employed to turn improvised landscapes into song shapes which continued to be adjusted as lyrics and vocal parts were written. The sessions were a process of discovery; a road towards a complete self-contained statement of songs of introspection and observation, that slowly revealed itself as each came to fruition, adding another piece to the picture. 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The themes and reflections of the 2022 BBC documentary \"AIDS: The Unheard Tapes\" provide further inspiration for this song about the devastating epidemic. Taken from the 2025 album C\u003cem\u003eolours Yet To Be Named,\u003c\/em\u003e this single has been edited and remixed and is accompanied by a new track, “Ghost Pavilion Dub”, a minimal mood piece recorded during the album sessions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elefant","offers":[{"title":"12\" - White","offer_id":56988399108427,"sku":"R5921-4644","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/ER401.jpg?v=1775748522"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/lightning-in-a-twilight-hour-1.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}