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    Album Of The Week Album Of The Week - 18/07/2026 - Track 6 My final selection from Draconian Times MMXI is one of the two songs played during the set encore, the 2009 title track from Faith Divides Us, Death Unites Us. For me this is one of the most defining Paradise Lost songs in both style and lyrics, a song that saw the band move back to their doom metal roots while retaining the musicality of subsequent albums. This is a superb live recording to bring the curtain down on this week's album. Album Of The Week - 18/07/2026 - Track 5 My penultimate selection from Draconian Times MMXI is the final song in the set before the encore. The song, Jaded, is the final track from the album Parasdise Lost were honouring at this gig, a slow, moody offering with the insightful lyrics of abandonment and grief that run through this superb album. Album Of The Week - 18/07/2026 - Track 4 My next selection from Draconian Times MMXI is the track Shadowkings.  A mid-tempo song with a mi...
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   Album Of The Week 2026 - Archive Album Of The Week - 03/01/2026 Dark Fields - Show of Hands We kick off 2026 with a band that have made a massive impact on my music listening, the Devon based folk duo, Show of Hands, who comprise of singer/songwriter/musician Steve Knightley and the multi-instrumentalist and folk legend Phil Beer, formerly of the Albion Band. This week’s album, Dark Fields, is the fourth of my 32 Show of Hands albums to be selected as my album of week and its an album that has a special memory, as I bought it at a gig we attended at the Exeter Phoenix soon after Julie & I started following them. Dark Fields, released in 1997, is actually the bands 6 th  album although the first 3 were cassette only and are now long out of print. Therefore, Dark Fields is the third main release album and continued the success and acclaim Show of Hands had garnered from their previous 2 albums. In 1996, Show of Hands surprisingly booked the Royal Albert Hall and even...
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