Sadly The Future Is No Longer What It Was, by Leyland Kirby (Double LP on History Always Favours the Winners)

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This record left our Phil feeling ecstatic.

The last time I saw James Kirby he was wearing a pig mask destroying Chris De Burgh songs at a pub in Leeds years ago. Now he's got big hair and is being all sensitive everywhere. It's amazing how time flies and how people change as V/VM is no more but The Caretaker lives on. As does his new moniker Leyland Kirby and here's the 2nd part of the 'sadly, the future is no longer what it was' trilogy. 6 months in the making, this ambitious trilogy has traversed Europe in a hard drive and has now landed as a 6 LP set! There is a triple CD to come but more on that as and when. This second part of the set continues the emotive and emotional warmth of the debut. The thing I get from this series is a lot of soul searching. You can almost here his mind ticking over as music plays. Lots of piano, drones, synth washes, fuzzyness all intertwine over an emotive backdrop. Light and dark are also prevelant as some elements of the music sound dark and foreboding whilst others sound much lighter. Overall though, this has quite a dark paranoid feel compared to the first volume. It makes me think of a dark rainy city rife wih sadness and something evil foreboding (like a film noir version of the city Blade Runner is set in). There is some hope in there but it's much more buried than the first volume. Limited to 500 copies on double vinyl!

What the label says about Sadly The Future Is No Longer What It Was, by Leyland Kirby:

'Sadly, the future is no longer what it was' are a trilogy of releases by Leyland Kirby.

Here we have the second installment pressed on double vinyl, cut and mastered by Lupo at the legendary Dubplates and Mastering here in Berlin.

This release is housed in a sleeve designed by exiled Mancunian Ivan Seal with full colour artwork throughout.

It could be said it's about the the fragility of existence and about those times when we pace the streets for answers when the ground under our feet is not so stable.

Those times when we feel invisible to all those around us as we continue to walk, searching for signals and connections, at a loss to our situation and looking for a new pathway forward.

As a document it's emotional and personal, heartbreaking and gentle, it's a six month fairy tale from the big city complete with heroes and villains, with winners and losers.

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