The Reds, Pinks and Purples - Summer At Land's End

Released 4th February 2022.

Summer at Lands End is not an interlude or tangent for The Reds, Pinks & Purples but rather a perfect fourthmovement following the albums Anxiety Art, You Might Be Happy Someday, and Uncommon Weather. As with theseself-recorded records (the primary work of songwriter Glenn Donaldson), the songs on Summer at Lands End werecrafted slowly and then drawn together to make a unified statement. But here, and more than before, Summer at LandsEnd combines Donaldsons rueful pop sensibility with a parallel musical universe, one composed of pictures, dreams, andfeelings without words. Even if the underlying theme of this collection is one of conflict or unhappiness, the vision of themusic presents an escape to a new world, always fading in and out of sight.

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