Name: Tollinghurst
Brand: Reigns

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

WSR023

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black

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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

2022-04-15

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

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5056321642431

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

Artist

Reigns

Genre GB

Post Rock

Label GB

Wrong Speed Records

For fans of Ghost Box Recordings, John Carpenter Soundtracks, Caretaker, Wicker Man, and deep diving into the mysteries of this hellish Isle. Album number six from the Wessex based duo. Edith Tollinghurst was an English commercial artist who worked extensively throughout the 1950s and 1960s. She was famous for her stylised portrayals of family life, and her work was frequently featured in lifestyle magazines of the day. Her work is perhaps best exemplified by her illustrations for the 1957 Woman’s Weekly’s feature “How To Host The Perfect Dinner Party”; an article that was reprinted without variation for eight successive years. From 1964 until her death in 1970, she designed and illustrated what is now known as the Tollinghurst Tarot. It is said that she toiled day and night on the deck, painstakingly and repeatedly reworking the illustrations. When it was complete, just a handful of readings were ever given, but the surviving sitters all attest to the otherworldly beauty of the cards and to the staggering complexity of the layouts. These same accounts also maintain that her prophecies were, without fail, 100% accurate. On the 18th of November 1970, Edith - in a move possibly prompted by a sharp decline in her own fortunes - used the cards to foretell her own future. The prognosis was bleak: the deck foresaw her violent end before the day’s close. Edith, in a bid to thwart the cards, set about burning her life’s work. However, the resulting fire engulfed both the house and its mistress, simultaneously upholding the deck’s flawless track record. <i>Tollinghurst</i> outlines our speculations as to the nature and substance of those destroyed cards.

Tollinghurst

Music GB