The The: Ensoulment (Vinyl 2xLP)

The The’s first studio album of new songs in a quarter century. The 12 songs on Ensoulment encompasses characteristic topics ranging from love & sex, war & politics, life & death – to the meaning of what it is to be human in the 21st century.

Singer-songwriter Matt Johnson is joined by long-standing The The members James Eller (bass), DC Collard (keyboards), Earl Harvin (drums), and Barrie Cadogan (lead guitar). The album also marks the return of co-producer and engineer Warne Livesey, who previously worked on landmark The The albums Infected (1986) and Mind Bomb (1989). Additional performances include Gillian Glover (backing vocals), Terry Edwards (horns), Sonya Cullingford (fiddle) and Danny Cummings (percussion).

1. Cognitive Dissident
   
2. Some Days I Drink My Coffee By the Grave of William Blake
3. Zen & the Art of Dating
   
4. Kissing the Ring of Potus
5. Life After Life
   
6. I Want to Wake Up With You
   
7. Down By the Frozen River
   
8. Risin' Above the Need
9. Linoleum Smooth to the Stockinged Foot
10. Where Do We Go When We Die?
11. I Hope You Remember (The Things I Can't Remember)
    
12. A Rainy Day in May