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Show Of Hands - Battlefield Dance Floor (27/09/19)

  • Artist: Show Of Hands

  • Release Date: 27th September, 2019

  • Genre: Folk, Roots

  • Record Label: Proper Records

  • Tracks: 13

  • Website: https://www.showofhands.co.uk

With its arresting cover of a felled marionette, Battlefield Dance Floor is the 18th studio album from one of the most prized acts on the folk roots circuit.

Show of Hands' first key release in more than three years, the 13-track album brings eight keenly awaited new songs (and a co-write) from the pen of Steve Knightley, widely acknowledged as one of the country's most inspired and original songwriters.

Possibly their most commercial release to date, Battlefield Dance Floor is an exuberant, lush, full-blooded album co-produced by the in-demand Mark Tucker and Knightley - Show of Hands' first release since 2016's The Long Way Home.

A classy cornucopia, it's an album that successfully melds vintage Show of Hands and brand new material, infusing influences old and new and this time - as a four-strong band - with even greater depth and panache.

Steve comments "With the heartbeat and harmonies that Cormac and Miranda add, we are at last creating a sound we've dreamed of making for twenty-five years!"

It is a collection full of wonderful tracks mixing songs of despair and displacement, emphatic songs, tongue in cheek songs, poignant songs and carefully chosen covers skillfully woven into a high-quality and classy album. Superb songwriting, musicianship and production combine to create a classic yet very fresh addition to the already very rich SOH collection of folk music.

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