For Red Riverbank [LP]

The Sprigs - For Red Riverbank [LP]

With For Red Riverbank, The Sprigs return to Bison for their first full length LP, this time joined by Ratty and Badger to form a full three-piece band, and to help Mole take on the developers working above ground. Armed with guitars, pipes, samples and bric-a-brac, it'd be easy for the Sprigs to succumb to a totally romanticized nostalgia for an imagined British folkloric tradition. There's enough of it going around. Instead, the gang create a ramshackle, ruddy faced blend of introspective hibernation, real-world anxiety and some absolutely knee slapping, joy inducing tunes. It's a masterwork of folk collage -- where beautiful straight-to-tape guitar sketches are cut up amongst British labor history with the help of Leon Rosselson and Ash Reid, giving way to waves of depression and relief in equal measure. Such is life! 01. Come Along, Back Home 02. Ratty & The Moles Get To Work 03. Lest Limbs Be Reddened And Rent 04. On The Wheels That Turn For The Profit Of The Few 05. Murmurs From The Wide World 06. For Peace And Mild Ale (With Ash Reid) 07. Freedom Is The Mole Who Will Turn The World Upside Down 08. The Battle For Red Riverbank