Ensoulment (Clear Vinyl, Booklet, Gatefold)

Description

Double clear vinyl LP pressing housed in gatefold jacket. Includes booklet. 2024 release. The The’s first studio album of new songs in a quarter century! The 12 songs on Ensoulment encompasses characteristic topics ranging from love & sex, war & politics, life & death – to the meaning of what it is to be human in the 21st century. Singer-songwriter Matt Johnson is joined by long-standing The The members James Eller (bass), DC Collard (keyboards), Earl Harvin (drums), and Barrie Cadogan (lead guitar). The album also marks the return of co-producer and engineer Warne Livesey, who previously worked on landmark The The albums Infected (1986) and Mind Bomb (1989). Additional performances include Gillian Glover (backing vocals), Terry Edwards (horns), Sonya Cullingford (fiddle) and Danny Cummings (percussion).

• – Disc 1 –
• 1Cognitive Dissident
• 2Some Days I Drink My Coffee By the Grave of William Blake
• 3Zen and the Art of Dating
• – Disc 2 –
• 1Kissing the Ring of Potus
• 2Life After Life
• 3I Want to Wake Up with You
• – Disc 3 –
• 1Down By the Frozen River
• 2Risin’ Above the Need
• 3Linoleum Smooth to the Stockinged Foot
• – Disc 4 –
• 1Where Do We Go When We Die?
• 2I Hope You Remember (The Things I Can’t Forget)
• 3A Rainy Day in May