Tales From The Silver Lounge LP

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The Blue Aeroplanes have been delivering their distinctive brand of rackety sprechgesang for four decades now, and they are showing no signs of slowing down. Their new studio album, ‘Tales From The Silver Lounge’ is based on overheard conversations between the clientele of The Silver Lounge, a rather louche café/bar in an unnamed city on an unknown planet much like ours, and in an unknown time, though the decor tends to the late 50’s, early 60’s. The identities of the members of the Silver Lounge are, of course, confidential. This is the 14th Blue Aeroplanes studio album and the third with the current line-up, which is: Gerard Langley: vocals Bec Jevons: guitar, vocal and backing vocals Mike Youé: guitar, vocal and backing vocals Rita Lynch: guitar, vocal and backing vocals Chris Sharp: bass and backing vocals John Langley: drums and percussion Ed Taylor: many different instruments and backing vocals Wojtek Dmochowski: dance Alexander Dmochowski guests on saxophone and clarinet, Will Diamond on violin and Steve Bush adds backing vocals. After two best-of compilation albums were released by Chrysalis Records in 2025 (‘Magical Realism’: The Best Of The Blue Aeroplanes’ and ‘Outsider Art’: The Other Best Of The Blue Aeroplanes’), the band are now back firmly in a sort of present with a new album that features all the guitar-band flavours that anyone could need, with poems that cover name-doppelgangers, falconry terms, Don Marquis, postcards, Greek mythology, abandoned Teslas, the First World War and the surreal nature of music-hall jokes. “The Blue Aeroplanes? Not my cup of tea, but I can see what people see in them.” Mark E. Smith