Expected release 31/05/24
Freeze
The Fear Never Leaves You
Singapore Sadie
Trust
The Day That I Give In
The Old Pack Mule
Turnstile Casanova
Lost In A Crowd
Maybe Life's A Bloody Show
What's Left To Lose
We Roll
When Richard Thompson began writing songs for his latest album, Ship
to Shore, the artist was instinctively drawn to his own musical roots,
employing them in the service of fashioning a deep and diverse 12-track
collection that pulls from various styles, genres and eras, but remains
unmistakably Richard Thompson
There's the rumbling, Motown- style rhythm that propels "Trust," and the
straightforward riff-rock of "Turnstile Casanova" The drone-y "The Old Pack Mule,"
an "old man's song" that takes musical cues from 1600s-era European music, and
"Life's a Bloody Show," an ode to "snake-oil salesmen and hucksters" that foats
on a glammy, cabaret-like melody that's "almost like a parody of a Noel Coward
song, or something from Berlin in the 1920s," Thompson says. "I liked the idea of
having a strong base to work from and reaching out from there," he says. "And I
think of my base as being British traditional music, but there's also Scottish
music, there's Irish music. There's jazz and country and classical. As far as I'm
concerned, once you establish your base you can reach out anywhere. It'll still be
you ringing through, wherever you decide to go musically."