Good, The Bad & The Queen – Merrie Land

NEW VINYL LP ON STUDIO 13 2018

180 GRAM LTD. COLORED VINYL. 

the Good, The Bad & The Queen, the supergroup made up of Damon Albarn, the Clash’s Paul Simonon, the Verve’s Simon Tong, and Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen, would be returning with their first album since their 2007 self-titled debut. And now it’s official: Merrie Land will be out next month, 11/16, self-released on the band’s new Studio 13 label. Produced by legendary David Bowie producer Tony Visconti and the band themselves, Merrie Land was written in the shadow of a looming Brexit. According to a press release, the album functions as “a reluctant goodbye letter, a series of observations and reflections on Britishness in 2018″ and a “beautiful and hopeful paean to the Britain of today, an inclusive Britain, currently in an Anglo-Saxostentialist crisis at the end of a relationship, wondering what might be salvaged.”

Tracklist

01 “Merrie Land”
02 “Gun To The Head”
03 “Nineteen Seventeen”
04 “The Great Fire”
05 “Lady Boston”
06 “Drifters & Trawlers”
07 “The Truce Of Twilight”
08 “Ribbons”
09 “The Last Man to Leave”
10 “The Poison Tree”