Where It Really Starts, by Jon Langford & the Bright Shiners

Where It Really Starts

by Jon Langford & the Bright Shiners

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For a limited time only, and only through Bandcamp, Jon Langford & the Bright Shiners are offering early-comers a coloured vinyl version of the album.

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A handy and portable compact disc version of the debut album from Jon Langford & the Bright Shiners, "Where It Really Starts".

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1.	For The Queen Of Hearts 03:19	buy track
2.	Awake The Land Of The Shadows 03:14	buy track
3.	Discarded 02:38	buy track
4.	Old Lost Dog 02:54	buy track
5.	Seahouses 03:25	buy track
6.	On A Scale Of One To Nine 03:04	buy track
7.	Tell Me Your Story 02:37	buy track
8.	The Emperor's Fiddle 02:16	buy track
9.	A Farsighted Ghost 03:31	buy track
10.	I Have A Wish 02:33	buy track
11.	[unlisted track] 01:10	buy track

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Jon Langford's been in more bands than you have digits - and that's true even if you were born with a few extras! From his early days in Mekons, Delta 5, Three Johns and even Sisters Of Mercy (booted for not wearing black) to a veritable explosion of one-off recordings and performances with more names than we could ever hope to list in full. A Wikipedia description for this group, The Bright Shiners (described therein as 'circa 2022 through at least 2023, in Northern California') provides some sense of the complex taxonomy needed just to keep track of Jon's massive oeuvre.

Happily, that's an understated description of a serious new outlet for his endless creativity, and The Bright Shiners' recording activities have produced a full album, Where It Really Starts, the first recording in a collaboration with Tamineh Gueramy, Alice Spencer, and Jon's frequent musical partner, John Szymanski.

Jon's never sung or written better, and the sense that the band realised they were onto something great is palpable in an instant. Each song is a minimalistic jewel - there's nothing here that doesn't need to be - yet the album is unsparing of aptly astonishing adornment - wonderful harmonies, horns, mellotron, bowed guitar, piano. looped percussion and more), by our reckoning this is one of Jon's finest works of art and his best outfit outside The Mekons themselves.

  Jon Langford & the Bright Shiners will tour mercilessly throughout 2024.

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released March 8, 2024

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