Four Against Fate, by Nightingales

Four Against Fate

by Nightingales

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poppol happy to discover this band lately.great discovering the back catalogue Favorite track: The Desperate Quartet.

nikmate Thank you Stewart Lee! My radar failed to detect this band but because of your wonderful documentary this terrible error was corrected. Favorite track: Wicked Winter (Lost In Highland Park).

Jack Roscoe Fab slab of neo post-punk - we need The Nightingales more than ever! Favorite track: The End Began Somewhere.

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Very likely the best album of 2020, and easily the best in a career that's lasted for decades. "Four Against Fate" is the latest in a string of brilliant releases, but here it all comes together like nothing they've done before.

Hot on the heels of an expanded deluxe edition 2xLP reissue of their classic "No Love Lost", "Four Against Fate" was recorded late last autumn at Faust Studio in Scheer Germany by bassist Andi Schmid and mastered by Young Marble Giants' Stuart Moxham. It features Clara Kebabian on violin, Kate Armitage from Hotpants Romance on sax, and Mark Bedford from Madness / Near Jazz Experience on double bass.

Hightlights are too many to list - the immediacy of The Top Shelf, the stirring album closer The Desperate Quartet and the what-the-fuck-is-that madness of "Everything, Everywhere, All Of The Time" . . . any one of them (and several others) could be a hit, and the band will be launching another long UK tour starting in April, two jaunts to Europe and more dates later in the year. 2020 will also see the debut of the Stewart Lee / Michael Cumming film about Robert and the band, "King Rocker", and it's inevitable that there will be some special performances surrounding that.

Includes unlimited streaming of Four Against Fate via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. ... more

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Packaged in an earth-friendly eco-pack, the compact disc version of "Four Against Fate" was designed for fans on the go, especially those with a car stereo.

Very likely the best album of 2020, and easily the best in a career that's lasted for decades. "Four Against Fate" is the latest in a string of brilliant releases, but here it all comes together like nothing they've done before.

Hot on the heels of an expanded deluxe edition 2xLP reissue of their classic "No Love Lost", "Four Against Fate" was recorded late last autumn at Faust Studio in Scheer Germany by bassist Andi Schmid and mastered by Young Marble Giants' Stuart Moxham. It features Clara Kebabian on violin, Kate Armitage from Hotpants Romance on sax, and Mark Bedford from Madness / Near Jazz Experience on double bass.

Hightlights are too many to list - the immediacy of The Top Shelf, the stirring album closer The Desperate Quartet and the what-the-fuck-is-that madness of "Everything, Everywhere, All Of The Time" . . . any one of them (and several others) could be a hit, and the band will be launching another long UK tour starting in April, two jaunts to Europe and more dates later in the year. 2020 will also see the debut of the Stewart Lee / Michael Cumming film about Robert and the band, "King Rocker", and it's inevitable that there will be some special performances surrounding that.

Includes digital pre-order of Four Against Fate. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.

Includes unlimited streaming of Four Against Fate via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. ... more

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1.	Thicko Rides Again 02:50	buy track
2.	The Top Shelf 03:18	buy track
3.	Neverender 03:16	buy track
4.	Wicked Winter (Lost In Highland Park) 03:52	buy track
5.	Then I Felt 02:50	buy track
6.	The End Began Somewhere 05:26	buy track
7.	Devil's Due 03:13	buy track
8.	Everything, Everywhere, All Of The Time 02:18	buy track
9.	The Other Side 03:15	buy track
10.	On The Make 03:14	buy track
11.	Simple Soul 02:42	buy track
12.	The Desperate Quartet 05:10	buy track

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released May 8, 2020

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Nightingales Birmingham, UK

Robert Lloyd's career began at the start of punk, as leader of Birmingham's best punk band, The Prefects, who were wildly ahead of their time in experimentation and age, despite their relative youth.

After the band's evolution into The Nightingales, Robert Lloyd become the combo's sole constant member, and he's led the band through a dozen or so brilliant albums across at least as many labels. ... more

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shows

Oct 09

ARCI Bellezza

Milan, Italy
Oct 12

Club Manufaktur

Schorndorf, Germany
Oct 19

Schokoladen

Berlin, Germany
Dec 08

Black Box

Belfast, UK
Jan 05

Butlin's - Bognor Regis

Bognor Regis, UK

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