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"The Singing Loins started as a stripped-down acoustic duo in 1990/91, with the aim of writing honest, bare songs, outside of any particular style, coining the phrase 'Authentic Raw Folk from the Medway Delta.' Their first two albums were recorded with Billy Childish and released on his Hangman Records. Twelve years, and five or six albums later, they added banjo/mandolin/accordion, and hooked up with Damaged Goods Records and released another four or five records (depends who's counting). With a huge fanbase in both Medway and Serbia, but pretty much unknown elsewhere, and plenty of acclaimed shows both home and abroad later, they called it a day in 2013, returning briefly in 2019 to record what turned out to be their swansong, 13 Moon Songs from Merry Hell. The group's singer, Chris Broderick, sadly passed away in early 2022, having let Arf know that he wanted the others to carry on The Singing Loins' name, at which point Arf and Rob got together with Billy Childish again to write and record The Fighting Temeraire album, dedicated to Brod's memory. In parallel with that, The Singing Loins added fiddle/drums/electric/bass, and in 2024 released another long player, Twelve, through Damaged Goods Records; a sort of 'best of' of the lo-fi years, remodeled and re-purposed for the new line-up. Currently, as well as gigging regularly as The Singing Loins, they also moonlight with Billy Childish as The North Kent Folkways Revival, who have collectively recorded another three albums, and also played a Riley & Coe BBC6 Music session. This new mini-album, Camber '87, is a further progression. The lead track, 'Teeth & Eyes,' is a new song; a pox-marked beauty. The other five are revisited versions of lo-fi original oldies, twisted and adapted to the new sound and line-up. Limited to 300 copies on vinyl."
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DAMGOOD 619LP
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"A new album by Medway's premier alt-folk outfit The Singing Loins! Yes indeed. Damaged Goods caught up with Rob Shepherd to find out more about their brilliant new LP Twelve. The album has features newly recorded versions of several Loins classics. Was it a difficult decision deciding which back catalogue songs to record? 'No, pretty easy -- it's basically the 12 songs we enjoy playing the most with the current lineup. Saying that, it's been a bit of a meandering road getting to this point. Since Brod passed away, Arf and me have done few nights of Loins songs -- and it's felt good -- celebrating the songs we all wrote together -- so that started the selection process. Oli, Arf's lad, joined us on percussion and then Rich, who Billy had introduced to us, joined on violin -- then Chris came along to play the drums, so Oli switched to guitar -- and through all that we were refining the set of songs, and we got a point where we felt that, yeah, we've sort of worked out how to do this (you know, respecting and celebrating our past, without coming on like a tribute band to ourselves), so it made sense to make the album -- just to reflect where we'd arrived at. So we went into Jim's Ranscombe Studios and bashed them all out live in a couple of hours. No overdubs, no fussing over mistakes, just sing and play the songs as if it was a gig.'"
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DAMGOOD 405CD
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The12th album released in a career dating back to the late 1980s. The Loins began having a laugh 20 years ago with two utterly live, mono, vinyl-only LP releases on Billy Childish's gorgeously Luddite record label, Hangman. This album marks a change in the band's sound, nothing too drastic but it's a bigger, ballsier sound, probably due to the addition of John Forrester on double bass plus a few others at the recording and the ever great, Jim Riley at Ranscome in Rochester.
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