*New* Divine Comedy - 'Absent Friends'

[spe@rmint]

Just listening to this at the mo, I believe its out end of March.

The new slim line Divine Comedy.

Sounding good. Need a few more listens before any further comment.

Guests - Lauren Laverne :luv:
Yann Tiersen (bloke who did Amelie music)





:wave:

[Deano]

Yup - love Sticks and Stones and Billy Bird

[Lorne.t]

Halfway through listening to this and I'm enjoying it a lot...

[spu98ajc]

One of the guys I work with is Desmond Hannon. Can anyone work out who he is? :D


spu98ajc

[Jelly.]

I haven't downloaded it (I'll buy it) but I love Come Home Billy Bird. Lovely.

[GoblinUK]

Cant wait to hear this...love the divine comedy. roll on march

[jmdomain]

Listening to this at the moment. It's sounding pretty good...for what is essentially a Neil Hannon solo album.

[MetalGearAl]

Oooh.... I didn't even know this was "out" or even out soon! Can't wait :)

[wong fei hong]

Originally posted by jmdomain
Listening to this at the moment. It's sounding pretty good...for what is essentially a Neil Hannon solo album.

But all the Divine Comedy albums up to Regeneration were essentially Neil Hannon plus musicians. Joby Talbot had a big arrangment input and an occasional songwriting credit, but it's always been definitively Mr Hannon's band.

[jmdomain]

Yep, fair enough. Valid point. What I was getting at was that this album is where it's just Neil Hannon + added sessionists whereas on the former albums, people like you say have had a greater impact on The Divine Comedy's output.

[wong fei hong]

That's one of the reasons I'm looking forward to it: Liberation and Promenade were the last albums he made this way, and they are two of the finest albums I know.

[jmdomain]

Of course but they've always come across as a band or maybe it's always been Neil Hannon's gregarious nature thats come across.