The brand new album by Joe Kelly & The Royal Pharmacy, available to preorder now on vinyl with What About The Rest? t-shirt
Side A
1. 200 Years
2. Little Fears
3. Cast Me Down
4. Holding On
5. Matilda
6. Fill My Soul
Side B
1. Tell Me What You're Running From
2. Sleeperhold
3. Oh My Baby
4. Living Daylights
5. Doomscrollin'
Vinyl includes insert
Records are expected to be shipped mid April.
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When writing the bio for the "difficult second album" you are supposed to repeat the trope about having a lifetime to compose your debut LP and a few months to pen the follow-up.
Yet while the vinyl release of Joe Kelly & The Royal Pharmacy's acclaimed debut album World On Fire was less than a year ago, much of the record that follows quickly in its wake is the product of the same prodigious gestation period.
Written and recorded in parallel to World On Fire, Cast Me Down is the other side of the coin. A non-identical and more unruly twin, it takes some of the experimental instincts hinted at on album one and doesn't so much as throw everything but the kitchen sink at the songs as rip the kitchen sink clean off the wall, jump inside it and take flight.
It's a heady ride and although Cast Me Down opens with a welcome reprise of the indie Americana sound that characterised World On Fire, an unsettling loop of backwards guitar heralds the arrival of a sequence of songs that channels sixties psych-pop, the Arctic Monkeys at Rancho De La Luna, late-night West Coast soul, Unkle, The Raconteurs, Father John Misty, and side two of Abbey Road.
And that's just for starters. Backed once again by The Royal Pharmacy and produced and mixed by Jon Greening, Joe Kelly is also joined on Cast Me Down by special guest appearances from the golden larynx of Miss Erin McNamara and Scott McKeon from Welsh folk-rock heroes Rusty Shackle, who brings his formidable violin skills to the psychedelic denouement of Living Daylights.
And if you're wondering what Joe Kelly did next, he has already demoed more than 30 songs for album three...
Cast Me Down by Joe Kelly & The Royal Pharmacy is released on vinyl and all major streaming services on April 11 via Dirty Carrot Records.