Flowers in the Dark, by The Cane Toads

Flowers in the Dark

by The Cane Toads

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1.	Half a Ton of Steel 03:27	buy track
2.	Princes Street 04:11	buy track
3.	The Old School Tie 03:59	buy track
4.	Big Black Car 03:08	buy track
5.	The Devil's Hand 04:54	buy track
6.	Monk's Business 03:37	buy track
7.	Strange Way of Travelling 04:57	buy track
8.	The Losing End 03:17	buy track
9.	Round Here We Don't Give a Damn 03:48	buy track
10.	Zommy 02:49	buy track
11.	You Let It Show 02:50	buy track
12.	Pestilence 03:27	buy track
13.	Dark Spar 11:10	buy track
14.	Long Time 'Til the Morning 03:41	buy track

about

Flowers in the Dark is the third album by the Cane Toads.
The Cane Toads’ dirty blues and roots music has been part of the landscape of North Wales since 1988. They have had the same line up of David Hopewell (vocals and guitar), Humph Davies (bass) and Pete Walton (drums) throughout. They have recorded two previous albums, Horrid Din and The Roadkill Tapes.
The Cane Toads’ first love has always been live music, and they have performed hundreds of gigs ranging from festivals and support spots for big names, to impromptu sessions in people’s living rooms and garages. Over the years they have built up a huge repertoire including many self-penned songs that have become live favourites. Many of these Cane Toads originals remained unrecorded and unreleased.
Gigging was brought to a grinding halt by Covid in 2020. The Cane Toads were undeterred and played a series of online concerts. They also decided it would be a good opportunity to record a studio album while under lockdown conditions. Their previous releases had been recorded live, either in venues or the studio, and had by necessity stuck to the stripped-down 3-piece sound. The new album Flowers in the Dark was a chance to expand this approach and allow the band to play other instruments, try out new ideas and record their unreleased songs.
Flowers in the Dark retains the spark of the Cane Toads’ live performances but adds many unexpected elements. There are nods to psychedelia with lush Mellotron arrangements, a couple of excursions into dreamy electronica, and a classy horn section courtesy of guest musician Neil Browning. There are of course several raucous rockers in traditional Cane Toads fashion.

credits

released December 17, 2021

All songs by David Hopewell apart from tracks 4 and 13 - Lyrics by David Hopewell,
music by Songlines (Humphrey Davies, Rick Joslin, David Hopewell and John Cratchley)
All songs published by Madryn - © and ℗ Madryn 2021
Arranged and produced by The Cane Toads
Mixed and mastered by Pete Walton
Cover painting by Pete Jones
Recorded in 2020/21

David Hopewell – Vocals, guitar, lap steel, harmonica, mandolin, keyboards
Humphrey Davies – Bass, guitar, EBow, theremin, glockenspiel, bumpot
Pete Walton – Drums, vocals, synthesiser, percussion, gliss guitar
Special guest, Neil Browning - Horns

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Turquoise Coal Wales, UK

Turquoise Coal started in 2012 as a depository for archive recordings of north Wales music. Later that year we became a record label and have released several vinyl LPs, CDs and downloads. Some can be found here, and will be continuously added to over time. All our releases by Spectralate can be found on the group's own site (see link below). ... more

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