We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

The Aching Heart Of Picardy

from Workhouse Blues by Twenty-one Crows

/

  • Limited lathe cut LP
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    For the month of November, and November only, pre-order a copy of this one-time-only edition of the whole album, lovingly and exactingly hand carved into black wax by the steady hand of 345RPM. Cover art consists of an original signed and numbered three block linocut print on handmade japanese paper. Comes with a lyric booklet. Ships in December

    Includes unlimited streaming of Workhouse Blues via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    Sold Out

about

When i first visited the Somme i was immediately overwhelmed by something that i wasn't expecting at all, that that open, hedgeless, empty landscape where the unbroken sky towers relentlessly and the sound of birdsong is seldom heard, didn't feel empty at all, it felt full. Those rolling acres felt full to bursting with the chattering souls of a million men and the white stone which clump and parade in every direction tell only half the story for every yard of soil marks an agony, a telegram, a dark grief never to heal. We become so accustomed to the idea that history disappears people, that previous generations fade and are washed out like chalk drawings on a pavement but here is an entire generation of men preserved together forever as part of the earth. I recognised then a knowledge which i'd had inside me all along but never managed to define, that the true emptiness was in those hollow spaces which those men had left behind and all those hundreds of memorials which stand in every town and village and station weren't just built to remember them by but, at least in part, as beacons to guide them home.

credits

from Workhouse Blues, released October 31, 2017

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Endless image

Endless UK

contact / help

Contact Endless

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Endless, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featuring interviews with LA music scene pillar Kamasi Washington, and new London-based duo Mrcy.

listen now