Name: Dancing On The Dark
Brand: Free School

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

van287

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Colour

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2015-11-11

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5060174958915

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Artist

Free School

Genre GB

Electronic

Label GB

Static Caravan

Colour. Birmingham. Not two words that naturally co-exist. And yet maximalist cosmic voyagers Free School have managed to create an album that explodes with colour and scatters the industrial behemoth second city with rainbow sparkles. A huge-sounding record, 'Dancing On The Dark' features a fearless band of shamanistic vocalists, effusing uplifting, stirring messages of hope in a time where hopelessness reigns supreme. Tomlin Mystic (Friendly Fire Band), a truly mysterious wise man who speaks in poetry, features on 'Love Calling', the cosmic epic second single. 'French Cousins' has Free School's live vocalist Greg Bird (Mark E, Speech Fewapy Records) crossing boundaries that shouldn't be crossed. Sexwise. Sigmund Frued, Birmingham's hottest young MC, fires state-of-the-city barbs to contrast with Greg Bird's hopeful yearning on 'End Time Ministries'. Disco stomper 'Don't Make Your Life So Hard' takes a sample from free jazz classic 'The Healer/Don't Break' by E.W. Wainwright and beautifully crescendos with soaring, caressing strings. Chilean Katy Prado plays the spurner to Tomlin Mystic's spurned lover on 'Major Crimes'. 'Hudson's Whistle', the first single from the album, is a feel-good, hook-laden instrumental romp with melodies aplenty to tug on your heartstrings. 'Good People' features the soft optimistic harmonies of Maps (Mute Records), while Greg Bird appears like an angel in the chorus to sing of endeavouring to change and improve. The album closes with the reprise of 'Good People', rising from the ashes of life-transcending 'Ugly Kids' to burst into life, suggesting bright futures of gold.    School have set sail for bolder territories on their new LP. Set your controls for the heart of the sun.  "Like if you threw Daft Punk in a lake and listened to the ripples" - Steve Lamacq (BBC 6Music) "Truly magic" - Mixmag "The sound of nu-disco outta nu-Birmingham" - The Village Voice​

Dancing On The Dark

Music GB