| Format: | LP |
| Availability: | In stock |
REWIGLP81
26/08/2016
The sense of Palace Brothers being a band was dispelled by Oldham’s second album Days In The Wake. Initially released eponymously, Days in The Wake is, apart from the addition of some backing vocals on Come A Little Dog, a solo album. If the first Palace Brothers album sounded like eavesdropping on a hillbilly gathering, Days In The Wake is a more private, faraway recording. The album opens with "You Will Miss Me When I Burn" one of Oldham’s most tender melodies and, in the slight off-notes in his guitar picking, one of his most vulnerable. The album feels unhurried and still, on ‘No More Workhouse Blues’ Oldham slows his voice down to as low a register as possible, before breaking into a searing declaration: "I am a racing horse / I am a grazing horse / I am your favourite horse," the animal being a key signifier – or perhaps a character - in many of Oldham’s Palace songs.
