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L.Y.R. - Blah! Blah! Blah!

Blah! Blah! Blah! is taken from L.Y.R.'s new album Dark Sky Reservation due out on 3rd April via Real World Records and available to preorder here. https://lnk.to/RW270 The musical project of UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, producer and multi-instrumentalist Patrick J. Pearson and Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Richard Walters, what began as a creative correspondence experiment, once described as a ‘genre-splicing supergroup’, has gone on to become a much loved, highly prolific and very real life band. Blah! Blah! Blah! is minimalist but immediately catchy, the song builds hypnotically to a maniacal climax, hemmed in by “choice blindness” brought about by the availability of everything, everywhere, all the time - most of which is stuff and nonsense. If L.Y.R. have one itch they can’t stop scratching it’s the bewildering noise and colour of contemporary society, a world full of communication devices where disconnectedness is the result; both musically and textually this track embodies that contradiction. The new album by L.Y.R., their third commercial release, begins with the idea that the furthest points of light - stars - can only be seen in the dark. It’s a kind of contradiction that finds musical expression in these new tracks, the band always navigating towards sightings of hopefulness and constancy in an increasingly bewildering and storm-battered world. The term dark sky reservation has its origins in environmentalism, and several tracks on the album deal with the messed-up weather of our contemporary planet, both meteorological and psychological, from descriptions of an earth deluged by thunderstorms to the soggy back-gardens of suburbia, a climate crisis brought on by rampant urbanism. In that context, dark sky reservations are those regions of the landscape where light pollution is discouraged and even outlawed, to allow scientists and casual stargazers to peer into the cosmos and see the glory of the constellations, patterns of light that have entranced and mystified us for hundreds of thousands of years. It’s from those designated zones that human beings get a sense of their place in the universe, and experience the wonder of the here and now against a context of eternity and infinity. An alternative to the hectic craziness of everyday life, so often virtual and synthetic, the dark sky reservation is a place of refuge and dreaming, and like L.Y.R.’S music, such spaces are earmarked for contemplation and thoughtfulness. Through the subtle lyrics of the title track the words take on another meaning, to do with doubt, uncertainty and hesitation - a questioning of the soul and the self. The term reservation also hints at an appointment - a time and place, a remote location, after twilight - where music and language might rendezvous and combine to make something harmonious. However much Armitage’s lyrics nag away at the conscience and observe the shaky human predicament, Pearson’s hypnotic, mesmerising compositions and Walters’ ethereal soaring vocals always reach for beauty and melody. Or when minor chords are struck in the music, Armitage’s poetry steers in the direction of consolation and redemption. So lovers try to connect in the alienating world of commercialised art (Guernica Jigsaw); a cinema-goer is bamboozled by the choice of supernatural films on offer (Blah! Blah! Blah!); the heavens open again (French Cursive) and again (A Walled Garden); a litany of metaphors honour those citizens of the world without a roof over their head (Eclipse); a collared dove throws off the shackles of its own name (Collared Dove); daydreaming is celebrated as an art form (Under Artificial Lighting); and the human heart shines brightly (Sirius Alpha, Sirius Beta). Out of the gathering dusk comes forth illumination. Ten years since their formation L.Y.R. are creating some of their finest and most accomplished work. Dark Sky Reservation follows a decade of inventiveness and world building that has included two full length studio albums, a concept record about a street in Barnsley, an orchestral ode to the Shipping Forecast for the BBC Proms, commissions for the National Trust, Durham Brass Festival and more. Plus festival appearances including Green Man, Latitude & Bluedot, as well as several sold-out UK tours. Ahead of their latest LP and largest UK run to date, L.Y.R. show no signs of slowing down.