THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE QUEEN: MERRIE LAND
Damon Albarn, Paul Simonon, Tony Allen and Simon Tong Return with Second Album Out Today
Photo credit: Pennie Smith
“…this album is a masterpiece… the best album of the year.” – Sunday Times Culture
“…Up there with the most evocative attempts by British pop to interpret its locality” – Mojo
“The music they wrote suggests no end of ghosts: off-key pub pianos, bass recorders, an abundance of old-school organ that instantly evokes the British Seaside.” – The Guardian
Presaged by the recently released “Gun To The Head” and its title track (featured in The New York Times’ Playlist)—as well as the band’s first live appearance in seven years on Later…. With Jools Holland—Merrie Land, the sophomore album from The Good, The Bad & The Queen is finally released today, November 16, 2018.
Merrie Land follows an 11-year hiatus since The Good, The Bad & The Queen’s self-titled 2007 debut, and is self-released on the newly created label Studio 13. Produced by Tony Visconti and The Good, The Bad & The Queen, Merrie Land contains 10 new songs – written during the current period in which the UK is preparing to leave the European Union – creating a reluctant good-bye letter, a series of observations and reflections on Britishness in 2018.
Merrie Land’s focus moves beyond GBQ’s London-themed first album to a wider land, with a beautiful and hopeful paean to the Britain of today, an inclusive Britain, currently in an Anglo Saxostentialist crises at the end of a relationship, wondering what might be salvaged. Could there be a more perfect band – with their creative symbiosis of pasts and present and shared acclaimed music histories – to reflect on the anticipation, disorientation and confusion of current life?
In preparation for their shows in Blackpool, Glasgow and London the band will play three intimate warm-up shows in Tynemouth, at the Tynemouth CIU Club on November 26th and Cullercoats Crescent Club on November 27th & 28th – each with a rare capacity of less than 100.
The Good, The Bad & The Queen is Damon Albarn, Paul Simonon, Tony Allen and Simon Tong.
The full track listing for Merrie Land is:
– Merrie Land
– Gun to the Head
– Nineteen Seventeen
– The Great Fire
– Lady Boston
– Drifters & Trawlers
– The Truce of Twilight
– Ribbons
– The Last Man to Leave
– The Poison Tree
– Gun to the Head
– Nineteen Seventeen
– The Great Fire
– Lady Boston
– Drifters & Trawlers
– The Truce of Twilight
– Ribbons
– The Last Man to Leave
– The Poison Tree
Merrie Land – STREAM / BUY HERE
The Good, The Bad & The Queen – LIVE DATES:
November 26th – Tynemouth CIU Club, NORTH EAST
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November 27th – Cullercoats Crescent Club, NORTH EAST
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November 28th – Cullercoats Crescent Club, NORTH EAST
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December 1st – The North Pier, BLACKPOOL
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December 2nd – SWG3, GLASGOW
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December 3rd – Hackney Arts Centre, LONDON
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December 5th– Hackney Arts Centre, LONDON
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December 6th – Hackney Arts Centre, London
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