Ensoulment

by The The

Ensoulment cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 6 September 2024
  • Label: Cin茅ola
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 45:20
  • Community rating: 3.57/5 from 6 ratings

Artists on this release: Terry Edwards, David Collard, Warne Livesey, Gillian Glover, Danny Cummings, Earl Harvin, James Eller, Barrie Cadogan

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Breaking an astonishing 24-year hiatus, Matt Johnson resurrects his iconic post-punk vehicle for a profoundly existential, deeply melancholic exploration of modern art rock. Heavily informed by distinctly cold, spoken-word-infused electric blues and sweeping alternative rock arrangements, the lyricism fiercely tackles political decay and the anxiety of death. It is an intensely dark, brilliantly introspective late-career masterpiece.

Genres

Descriptors: political, existential, death, observational, literary

Tracklist

  1. Cognitive Dissident (3:06)
  2. Some Days I Drink My Coffee by the Grave of William Blake (4:03)
  3. Zen & the Art of Dating (4:30)
  4. Kissing the Ring of Potus (3:33)
  5. Life After Life (3:12)
  6. I Want to Wake up with You (4:00)
  7. Down by the Frozen River (3:33)
  8. Risin' Above the Need (3:46)
  9. Linoleum Smooth to the Stockinged Foot (3:53)
  10. Where Do We Go When We Die? (4:02)
  11. I Hope You Remember (The Things I Can't Forget) (3:38)
  12. A Rainy Day in May (3:59)

Credits

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