Name: Beyond The End
Brand: Ed Harcourt

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

PODR003CD

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Colour

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Discogs ID

Discs

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Standard Jewel Case.

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2018-12-07

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Orchard

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

5400863000448

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

Artist

Ed Harcourt

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

PIAS

<a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/music/amor-sinking-into-a-miracle">Rough Trade Exclusive Clear Vinyl with Exclusive Four-Track Bonus CD featuring the two previously vinyl-only 12"s Paradise and Higher Moment.</a>

The debut album from Glaswegians Richard Youngs (vocals), Michael Francis Duch (bass), Paul Thomson (percussion/drums) and Luke Fowler (synths/keys), is a playful and mysterious piece, spilling over with funky optimism and blissed out beats.

The strands of melody play and shift around as a dancing bass drags you on to the (surely) flashing dancefloor. Handclaps and percussion permeate throughout, embellishing the tracks with infectious accoutrement. The vocals have a face-to-sun euphoria. They call out while funk-synths whoop and thrumming drums rattle. The loops carry you along in a river of laidback shuffling carnival Afro-grooves.

An enveloping album splashed with new-age positivity, a clear-eyed glimpse of the future powered by mutant disco rhythms, plaintive piano and hypnotic mantras.

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10. Ed Harcourt - <a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/music/ed-harcourt-beyond-the-end">Beyond The End</a>

Albums of the Month - December 2018

Ed Harcourt releases Beyond The End, his eighth studio album, and his first for Point Of Departure. It is his first fully instrumental album. The album, which follows Furnaces, his 2016 album for Polydor, sees Ed Harcourt add another new string to his multi-faceted musical bow. Something of a left-turn after its busy, big-screen, somewhat under-appreciated predecessor, it sees the supremely versatile singer, writer and all-round instrumentalist bravely eschew vocals and lyrics and create a soft-spoken yet emotionally loquacious group of piano-led instrumentals, as if sound-tracking an as yet invisible film, or responding to today’s ferocious shouting match of a planet with a mesmerizing, meditative calm.

EXCLUSIVE! Join Ed as he discusses the creative and recording processes explored during the creation of new instrumental album Beyond The End.

LP - Black Vinyl housed in Gatefold Sleeve with Download.