The Nightingales release their first studio album since 2022’s much-praised ‘The Last Laugh’. Celebrated in the excellent Stewart Lee-narrated film King Rocker of 2020, where the curtain was raised on the magic of the “long serving punk/alternative rock volunteer” (The Quietus) Robert Lloyd, The Nightingales are as pertinent as ever as they release a poignant tirade on modern times heralded, quite rightly, as ‘The Awful Truth’.
Released on April 4th on Fire Records, their new album ‘The Awful Truth’ is a modern mutant music hall interpretation of the day’s news, a haunting jolt into realism narrated with all the angst of an insistent, slightly dishevelled late-night newscaster.
Robert Lloyd’s acidic one-liners trace the collapse of modern society, retaining the harmonious warble of a veteran pub crooner infected with the growl and grouse of The Fall, Nick Cave and at times Beefheart reincarnated.
‘The Awful Truth’ is out now. Available in Limited Edition Red Vinyl, CD and ‘The Awful Truth Bundle’: Limited Edition Red LP, T-Shirt & ‘Same Old Riff’ Guitar Pick.
TOUR DATES
12 Apr: RSD, Rough Trade East, London (Afternoon Set)
12 Apr: RSD, Signature Brew Haggerston, London, UK w/ Mekons
10 Aug: Rebellion Festival, Blackpool, UK
22-25 Aug: Krakenhaus Festival, Cumbria, UK
