{"product_id":"lad-ash","title":"Lad Ash","description":"\u003cp\u003eLondon electronic act Real Lies combine classic English pop-poetic story-telling with the uncanny rainswept atmospheres of auteurs like Claude Young, Drexciya and Richard D James. On their second album, lyricist Kevin Lee Kharas romanticises ecstasy-fuelled teenage joyrides that set the coordinates for two decades of thrill-seeking hedonism. A wild period that resulted in both the group’s euphoric 2015 debut \u003ci\u003eReal Life \u003c\/i\u003eand the prolonged six-year wait for its follow up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn places, that euphoria remains – they’ve never sounded higher than on ‘Dream On’ – but generally the mood here is darker, more late-night, club-ready and ruminative. There are songs about losing childhood friends in mysterious circumstances (‘Dolphin Junction’), bandmates (‘Boss Trick’ is a wake for former member Tom Watson), childhood innocence (‘An Oral History Of My First Kiss’) and huge swathes of memory (‘The Carousel’). As the title implies, Lad Ash is a coming-of-age album that draws out the beauty and longing of the young British male experience by reframing it through an elegiac, at times almost gothic, lens. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unreal","offers":[{"title":"Blue | LP | x2.","offer_id":50417509728587,"sku":"1144871","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP | x2","offer_id":50417509531979,"sku":"1144851","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50417509302603,"sku":"1144850","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/7f2b6ffc-cb88-4e66-9b61-283a7b1716fb_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726731677","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/products\/lad-ash","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}