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The Holy Roman Army - Stagger Gently Home

Most of the songs on this album seem imbued with city nightlife. Not the drunken pub-crawling, but the lonely wandering after the last club has shut its doors, looking up at dawn stretching the night out of the sky, and streetlights still lit, keeping watch and taking care. Not drunk enough to be senseless, but enough to feel the outer world creeping in.
These songs fit together in an interesting way, like hazy memories of different drunken rambles, all recalled at once. The album is gorgeous, but full of contradictions, one minute comfortable as in the song above, elsewhere cold and distant. The vocals aren't passionate but remain oddly warm, as much an instrument as the synths, samples and bump-click beats. It's a beautiful collection of sounds, and is undoubtedly one of the finest Irish releases of the year.

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