Name: Lad Ash
Brand: Real Lies

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UNREAL6CD

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Discs

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-06-10

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

5053760080725

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

UNREAL6

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black

Housed in Gatefold Sleeve with Printed Inner.

2022-09-30

5053760084396

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2 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

UNREAL6C1SIGNED

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blue

Rough Trade Exclusive: Yes

Extended format: Yes

Signed copies: Yes

2 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: Yes / Signed copies: Yes / blue

UNREAL6C1

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LP++ - Housed in Gatefold Sleeve with Printed Inner.

5053760087656

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2 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / blue

Artist

Real Lies

Genre GB

Electronic

Label GB

Unreal

London electronic act Real Lies combine classic English pop-poetic story-telling with the uncanny rainswept atmospheres of auteurs like Claude Young, Drexciya and Richard D James. On their second album, lyricist Kevin Lee Kharas romanticises ecstasy-fuelled teenage joyrides that set the coordinates for two decades of thrill-seeking hedonism. A wild period that resulted in both the group’s euphoric 2015 debut <i>Real Life </i>and the prolonged six-year wait for its follow up.

In places, that euphoria remains – they’ve never sounded higher than on ‘Dream On’ – but generally the mood here is darker, more late-night, club-ready and ruminative. There are songs about losing childhood friends in mysterious circumstances (‘Dolphin Junction’), bandmates (‘Boss Trick’ is a wake for former member Tom Watson), childhood innocence (‘An Oral History Of My First Kiss’) and huge swathes of memory (‘The Carousel’). As the title implies, Lad Ash is a coming-of-age album that draws out the beauty and longing of the young British male experience by reframing it through an elegiac, at times almost gothic, lens. 

Lad Ash

Music GB