Richard Subterran by The Monk Kings

What Happens:

Richard Whittaker looks upon Bishop Auckland Town Hall - Richard Whittaker recalls an encounter as a young boy - Roberta Hedge heads with others through the Kingdom of Fife - Edna King volunteers at Binchester Roman Fort - Simon Rickert looks out from the edge of Darlington station platform - Michael Sallis gets ready for a night out in Edinburgh - John Bradley writes his final column - John Paul has been shown he knew all along - Richard Whittaker dwells on regrets as he is marched up Arthur's Seat

Tracklist

1.	Just Alfred Nobel's Blues, Like	1:44

2.	Structure and Suburb	5:16

3.	Enemy Territory	3:14

4.	Who are the Just?	5:18

5.	What was that all about?	2:30

6.	George Pease Hobgoblin	2:30

7.	"Experiment"	1:10

8.	"said He ... Dance then"	0:56

9.	Back-caused Primitive Baptist of the Blues	2:24

10.	King of Rats	4:56

11.	Seeing You As You Really aren't	1:33

Credits

released May 19, 2021

"To invoke this material in a word - dense. Having made so much progress in recent months with the previous set - or so I thought - I found this influx hit me like the proverbial brick wall. Queer sounds. Obscure allusions. Concatenations of alienating landscape, feeling, and metre. It is another dimension, not only of sight and sound. Am I seeing the future spread before me, or webs - as if I a prospective Havisham - leaping to the eaves as the feather-duster moves to sweep them into place rather than away, time's arrow flipped in flight to emesh me?"

Robert Kuppenheimer, Town Librarian, Barrington-St John, RI, April 21st, 1961

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License

CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.