The Reds, Pinks And Purples – Summer At Lands End – CD Released 04/02/22

Description

Summer at Lands End is not an interlude or tangent for The Reds, Pinks and Purples but rather a perfect fourth movement following the albums Anxiety Art, You Might Be Happy Someday, and Uncommon Weather. As with these self-recorded records (the primary work of songwriter Glenn Donaldson), the songs on Summer at Lands End were crafted slowly and then drawn together to make a unified statement. But here, and more than before, Summer at Lands End combines Donaldsons rueful pop sensibility with a parallel musical universe, one composed of pictures, dreams, and feelings without words. Even if the underlying theme of this collection is one of conflict or unhappiness, the vision of the music presents an escape to a new world, always fading in and out of sight. For fans of Sarah Records, 90s 4AD, Blue Boy, The Clientele, early Belle and Sebastian, Felt, The Smiths.