Trouble Pilgrims: Blood, Glass & Gasoline (Vinyl LP)

This album is not the future of rock n roll. It’s far more urgent than that. It’s the sound of now. And now is not history’s brightest moment. Now is full of darkness and sadness and loss for so many. Anxiety, heartache, bewilderment, and despair.

But if this album is the sound of lockdown in Dublin’s, it’s not the sound of the clampdown. Far from it. This is an album of resistance, of hope in the darkness. Of beating the clock, squeezing out sparks in the dusty cellars of our despair. Lighting candles with the pennies we’d saved, or stolen, or dreamt of.

This is not the sound of the crowd. It’s certainly not the sound of the spirit level on immaculately, generically identikit city streets. This is the sound of the cracks in the concrete, the splinter in the grandfather clock. The flower in the dustbin. The torn page, full of wisdom, trampled underfoot in the rain. The sound of not walking the line. The dance of the dead. But that’s no surprise.

1. 21st Century Girl
2. The Old Days
3. Blood, Glass and Gasoline
4. Free To Dance
5. Hole In The Head
6. Mercy Mercy Mercy
7. The Resurrectionists
8. Light A Penny Candle