The Sovereign Self
Album • Jun 29 / 2015 • 8 songs, 48m 26s • 91%
Folk Rock
Psychedelic Rock
Psychedelic Folk
Popular
9
/ 10
A work of extraordinary ambition, integrating aspects of Classical Greek tragedy and unorthodox religious imagery.
Glaswegian eclectics Trembling Bells offer up their freewheeling fifth LP, The Sovereign Self, an eight-song odyssey named after a line by revered British television writer Dennis Potter.
Three years since their concessive, power-run of hit releases and Trembling Bells are back in ever-perfect form
Glasgow folk-rockers Trembling Bells go for a excitedly noisy sound here –perhaps a little too excited at times
Scottish folk rockers revisit the time when hippies were casting off Paisley Pattern in favour of brown corduroy. CD review by Guy Oddy