Speed Bumps Ahead
Track listing:
Weave and Spin
The Sea Captain's Bed
Detached
Leaning on the Bins
Cowrie Beach
‘The first EP from our current (2024) line-up. Click HERE to read a full review by Mike Davis at FATEA.
City of Song
(by The Battered Case)
Track listing:
Rip Van Winkle
Keep the Books
Hollow
Part of You
All the Way to Istanbul
Half Moon
Cheesecake at Rocco's
Schmears on Sissel Rye
The Ocean
Caribou
The first in an occasional side hustle series from various members of Thursday’s Band, The Battered Case has a studio focus, with space to add musicians wherever the arrangements suggest. Ten new recordings, ten songs stretching back beyond lockdown. Four tracks celebrating New York, one celebrating new life. One unpicking a memory, one a mystery. The rest - like all the best songs - are just about how to survive.
Chittagong Tattoo
Track listing:
Leavings
Ravensbruck
Granny Mean
In the City
Les Cigales d'Avignon
Difficult Man
Five Below Zero
Let the Fire Die Back
The Chittagong Tattoo
Cover photo © Pierre Torset
‘Very good… Granny Mean is stunning. Quietly finger-picked, violin in the background, a rising chorus, and lyrics which capture the many emotions of someone with dementia… It works. It shouldn’t but it really does. Let the Fire Die Back…. is driven by violin and the interplay between male and female vocal. You pick up the story in the gaps between the images – and you want to join in that refrain. Difficult Man is a delightfully human song. The Chittagong Tattoo is a powerful title track. And Leavings has… lovely interplay between the instruments as they hand the lead briefly from one to the other and a final verse that brings light to darkness… It feels like you might want to see if you can get them to your folk club…’ (folking.com)
All We Have in Common
Track listing:
The Corsair/The Black Ship
Cold Boston
First Waltz
Jupiter
Find a Way
Train to Albion
Eating Mexican
Slow Toast
Fly
Hundred Miles Away
Tomson the Marriner
Sliabh na mBan
Just Like Today
'The songs on this album take you on a journey ... through the bleak darkness of ‘The Black Ship’, the quiet longing of ‘Cold Boston’, the understated sharing of emotion in ‘Train to Albion’ by way of the tongue in cheek humour of ‘Eating Mexican’, to the raw feeling of ‘Fly’ ... and if Lucinda’s vocals on ‘Jupiter’ don’t move your soul then you should start looking for it... A band that works its magic across its chosen genre, blurring and bending the edges along the way. Thursday’s Band deliver a musical voyage that once taken (and you should) you will certainly make again and again...' (FOLKWORDS)
'A perfect illustration of the versatility of the band and their material... Impossible to pigeon-hole... and always thought-provoking, melodic and skilfully executed...' (THE UNICORN)
Where the Breakers Roll
('As live' EP)
Track listing:
Gatton and Buchanan
Cowrie Beach
When I Was Young
Tomson the Marriner
The Shabby Years
