With Alex Neilson partly playing in Will Oldham's band, there was undoubtedly an opportunity for a full length with Alex Neilson's Leeds' based Trembling Bells. This is their fourth album release and is a semi-collaboration with Will Oldham. The cut-glass precision of the classically-trained student of medieval music and the wordly, careworn tones of Will Oldhman created an unlikely chemistry. The result is an album that has, once again, redrated the boundaries of what Trembling Bells can achieve together. On the slow-reveal sonic establishing-shot of "I Made a Date (With an Open Vein)," two minutes of maic modal chaos elapses before Oldham takes the narrative reins of a mejstic call-and-response folk-rock epic. On "Ain't Nothing Wrong With A little longing," Alex Neilson (Current 93, Six Organs of Admittance) slams down a four-to-the-floor beat over a synergy of demonic Krautrock keys and a dialogue between Will Oldham and Lavinia Blackwell that scales Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood levels of romantic intrigue. "Jesus f*cking sh*t! These jamz claw so hard at the tatties below methinks the lord misnamed them, having intended to say Trembling BALLS" - Will Oldham "Trembling Bells are my kind of band" - Joe Boyd